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.
Ill be sorting in the next week or so all the pictures that customers have sent in by email . Sorry to all those who have in the past sent them in and not been posted on the blog. (I've found them again). If you do not see your's please get in touch!
Ian has been good enough to send us this picture of his 953 track bike which we recently built for him. Ian has a stable of our bikes and this is the latest. Built with Mavic wheels ,Campag chainset and tri-bars this machine has definitely been built for a particular job.
We had this registration number sent to us some years ago now, its from a Mercian owner from California who had it on his Honda car ( we had a photo of the car but lost it ) . The frame is being readied for a customer who should be happy with the finished item.
Open Friday 10th April
Open Saturday 11th April
Closed Sunday 12th April
Closed Monday 13th April
Closed Tuesday 14th April
Closed Wednesday 15th April
Re-open as normall on Thursaday 16th April
Thought you would like to have a look at this Lugless. Its built with Reynolds 853 oversize tubing . Light blue enamel with a white panel on the down tube and with the chrome crown I think it looks very nice indeed. Mainly built with Campagnolo equipment with Mercian built wheels.
Just before this Vincitore goes into the spray shop I though you would like to see the craftmanship that goes into the lug work. These lugs have been cut by hand from blanks all the work has been done in our own workshop here in Derby.
Just thought you would like a look at this Pro-Lugless in Pearl white with a leaf green pearl barbers pole and white transfers. Built with the Reynolds oversize 853 pro team tubing equipped with the Reynolds carbon forks and with a Chris King headset.
Well we must have made it big time . Jop Wielens of Digital Outlook sent us this link to a game which can be played online. They have had over 500,000 hits on the site !!!. The Mercian is in fact his own bike. Thank you Jop
Chris sent these pictures of the Mercian head crest he has had commissioned by his good friend Ryan, who is very gifted as you can see, the head crest is painted onto wood and looks the business! Ryan has in the past won the Northern Ireland TT 100 mile race. We certainly have talented friends and c
Another brighter finish our new Magenta Flam. As you will see by this very good picture ( cough ) that it has a very nice shine and depth and we think will become very popular. We are trying to get a few stock frames built so one will be in the shop soon in this colour to look at.
