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 was good enough to send me these pictures amongst others of his tandem. They do own dare I say it more than one of our tandems and a few solo's going by the garage pictures he sent me. The rear hub is a Rohloff which has now clocked up quite a few miles without any problem and as you can see
Snow today and it stopped me riding into work. We have not had snow like this for some time and going by the weather people its here for some time to come.
Well this book is well worth a look, I got mine through the post the other day from
Waterstones and I'm very impressed. It has the Campagnolo history, from the very early years right up to the brand new 11 speed equipment.
This reminded me of my trips to the Campagnolo factory. I've been lucky en
Reynolds to celebrate there 110 year of tube manufacturing has released a limited number of 531 tube sets of which we have a few. They are the 531 competition tube. We can build these into any of our frames. If you would like to reserve a set please call our shop on the normal number
These Paul Smith bikes where built for a very good customer of ours who last year had a 60th Anniversary bike. Both of these will be used on a regular basis for day rides and the trip to and from work.
This caught my eye in the spray shop today its a chromed Vincitore fork crown. Its going to be a complete bike so I will post a picture as soon as its done.
A quick glimpse of the new vinyl gothic transfer. These within reason can be made to match the colour of any bands you have on your frame. We have the technology to also have your name/club/nickname on the top tube in most fonts as well. We have the artwork from many manufacturers both new and old.
There is a bit of good news around especially if your outside the U.K. Due to the exchange rate and you have always been hankering after a Mercian it may be worth checking your exchange rate to U.K pounds. Its not good news for us of course but now might be the time to place your order. With a depos
I have been asked in a earlier comment to post a picture of our shop Vigorelli . Well here it is in all its glory in Green poly with gold block transfers and black lug lining. Its equipment is Mich chainset and Mavic open pro rims and stainless spokes. Nitto bars, stem and seat pin with a Brooks ti
Well here you have it our latest design. We have had this on the back burner ( haha ) for some time . I would like to thank Dave for the design . You should see one in the shop soon ( hehe)
Another track bike almost ready for the road ( just needs fine tuning) As you can see this one has straight bars and I think it looks cool. Two brakes as it has a freewheel as well and with no mudguard clearance to give it that sporty look . It will be on its way the London later in the week to crui
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