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.
We are now dealers for the American Classic wheels. There is quite a range of these wheels so pop in the shop and have a look. They are very nice indeed. Available with Campag and Shimano cassette body.
If your after a track frame we do have a few in stock including this 56cm c-t with a 55cm top tube in silver poly and black transfers and lug lining. If you fancy it give the shop a call.
Gav has just put this together for display in the shop. I thought you would like a look at it before it goes on display. No mudguard clearance gives this bike a sporty look. Please note the chrome work and the track end adjusters.
This is a picture of a customers request for the frame Builder, sprayer and frame finisher ( Derek , Rob and Phil) name to be on the frame. I think it looks really good but in reality its very hard to do indeed. Thats why everyone asked me not to put it on the blog.
Here we have a picture sent in to me by Chris from Boston , Mass USA and I have put a quote from his letter below :-
I have been riding the new Mercian Audax Special for a few weeks, but only yesterday did I finally have a chance for a long ride, and to try it out off-pavement, both on dirt roads a
Please find attached two pictures of my vincitore special track which I took last summer just after I had received it and put it together. needless to say the bike has been great, I changed to a fizik arione saddle after not really getting on with the B17 special; otherwise it is the same (despite a
Dave and Lydia sent me this email some time ago now. I have cut and copied there email for you to read. We bought the tandem over 16 years ago now after spending hours with Geof at the showroom discussing our requirements. Clocked 60mph once downhill in the Goyt valley/Peak district with absolutely
I quote from carls email .
Attached picture of my wife and her Audax Special somewhere in between Attersee and Gmunden in the Austrain lake district (Salzkammergut). I have a matching bike and we think they are the most comfortable bikes ever. Best money we ever spent. This year we flew into Slazbur
We had this photo sent to us some time ago now but at last its on the blog sorry for the delay. The picture was taken looking over the Rhine in southern Germany byKen and Hilary fromNuneaton, Warwickshire.
Sorry for the lack of updates or replies to emails over the past few days. My so called Jesus phone (iPhone) has packed up. It does not receive the signal from O2, my service provider over here in the UK, so I took it back to the store, where you would have thought they could have sorted the problem
