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.
David sent me this picture of his end to end journey. As you can see by his smile he is very pleased with his epic ride as he should be. Well done David.
I have been told off by more than one of the lads here and customers for not updating the blog for a while so here you go. I have been very busy over the past week or so (horrid paperwork mainly) but slowly we are getting on top of it now. This is Tim`s bench I think he dodged the camera for this sh
This is a almost finished professional frame. As you can see from the picture the spear points have been welded to the shell first and then the tube will be brazed into the lug. This gives the frame strenght and stiffness around the shell. This frame was first build for our professional team we had
This poem was sent to me by Chris our biggest Mercian fan who commissioned it from Willie Carton . He very kindly gave me permission to post it here for you all to read. I,m sure you agree with me its very good indeed. By the way check out Chris flicker site there is a link on this blog.
Just thought I would show you the new Lime Green Flamboyant . We have only just got this new paint and as you can see ( hopefully) has a very bright finish. We are sure this will become a very popular choice. This renovation is on a early Mercian track frame with Nervex lugs.
I was handed this by one of our frame builders the other day and was told to try it. The name goes a long way of course but I must say it was a nice drink. Well worth keeping a eye out for in your local.
Its this time of year when you need to get your frame re-sprayed ready for the coming summer ( if we get one ) . Here you see a few thats been undercoated ready for the spray booth. Once finished they will look like new.
Because of the severe weather conditions (according to Parcel Force) our collection and deliverys are taking a little longer. There seems to be ice on the road. I would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Hi all just a quick update . We are having a few problems with the phone line. It may have something to do with the snow. The line should be fixed this evening. So please email [email protected] if you can not get through.
