Following Mercian’s 80th Anniversary Festival of Steel, we were delighted to welcome Eddie White and Cherie Pridham to our new factory.
Eddie White was a valued founding member of the Mercian-Bantel Team, riding with the team between 1968 and 1979. It was a particular pleasure to welcome Cherie, who took time out of her busy WorldTour schedule as Sports Director of UAE Team L’Imad to join Eddie for the visit.
1946 was a special year: Paul Smith was born in Nottingham, Mercian Cycles was founded in Derby. Paul was a very good cyclist in his youth and rode Mercian bikes - his fondness for Mercian has remained, and the feeling is mutual. To help celebrate our 80th anniversaries, Paul has designed two special limited edition bikes, which were launched at Selfridges in early September.
After many months of effort, and a tremendous grant to help us on our way from Erewash Council, we launched three new eBike models at the end of August.
A great crowd attended our Festival of Steel ride out in August, to help celebrate the 80th anniversary of Mercian. Many thanks to Belper Cycling Club, and Andre Toczek in particular, for helping organise the event and doing a great job on the 4 rides. And a big thankyou to all those who attended the event - we estimate approx 300 people turned up to help us mark the day, but give it a few months and the estimate will have grown to 3000!
Congratulations to Jill Scott for completing her epic 388 mile "Coming Home" challenge, raising almost £500k for Sport Relief! Mercian were proud to help.
We doff a very large cycling cap to Greg James, who finished his 8-day pan-UK challenge in Edinburgh on Friday raising over £4.5mln. What an incredible amount!
After six decades Mercian Cycles workshop has moved.
Through the years there were a number of locations in Derby for the shop, the frame building workshop and sprayshop. But since about 1965 the frame building and painting was taking place at the Pontefract Street workshop.
Framebuilder Tim took the chance to head out on the Ventura All-road bike to go and pick up some dropouts from Bear Frame Supplies. An ideal opportunity to capture some video of the custom steel Ventura out on the gravel trails of the Derbyshire Peak District.
This is my bike.1980. Renovated in 1991 with BRG and a few alterations but otherwise in original condition cycling the lanes of Herefordshire mostly.Any way if you would like to upload it to the photographic section I would be most pleased.Brett
Thank you Brett for you photo the bike looks very
We have been asked to supply wheels for a Paul Smith window display which you can see if your in Paris. Its going to be on display for the next week or so.
I thought I would send you this one of my pro lugless which you made for me last year and I built up with campag gear. It's a real stunner as I'm sure you'll agree and it rides like a dream.
Thanks,
Thank you for all your pictures over the past few days while I've been off line. In the mean time look at the link below, I think you will enjoy it. Next stop Hollywood!
Sorry for any delay in updating the blog but I'm having network problems. I'll update as soon as I can. In the mean time please keep sending in your pictures they will be posted. Thanks to everyone who already has.
I'm slowly running out of pictures sent in by our customers and I could do with more. So if you fancy seeing your bike on the blog please do send one in.
This was sent to me some time ago now Phil lives in the U.S.A and below is part of his letter.
My bike arrived today and all I can say is WOW. And of course I can't wait to get her built and take her for that first ride. The detail and craftsmanship are everything I hoped for.
My Mercian is an inc
This bike as you can see is well looked after. Mainly built with Campagnolo record and super record equipment it looks a treat.
Below is a sample of Mr Richards letter.
I own a Mercian "Professional" that you built and custom fitted for me in 1987. I purchased it through "WORLD CYCLE" in Dallas,
