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.
A lovely looking Vincitore special frame built from Reynolds 725 tubing with a nice helping of chrome for good measure. We have to get this ready for xmas as the customer wants it to ride over the holiday. So it will be all hands on deck tomorrow.
Here is the other side to the frame which Phil was holding in a earlier post. As you can see its a completely different colour. This is a difficult and time consuming paint job. The customer has based it on our Paul Smith design. The bike although is for a London customer my just find its way over t
Well done Chris on your BBC sports personality of the year award. Not forgetting the British cycling team who won team of the year also David Brailsford won coach of the year.
Here you have Phil proudly holding a Anniversary frame which Rob and himself have been working on for the past few weeks just before it goes to the shop for building into a complete bike. A little like the our Paul Smith design but to the customers own colour scheme. I will post a picture once buil
We have here a picture sent in by our good friend Michael. He lives in London and has put himself together a lovely looking bike built around one of our 60th Anniversary frames. I think this is number 7 of 60 being built . Each of these frame comes with a sterling silver head badge. Michael has so
It's the time of year when some of us are considering a frame re-spray. We do offer a collection and delivery service within the U.K which will help if your a distance from the shop of course. If you would like us to collect the Frame please call our shop who will arrange all the details. We can eve
Well xmas is coming and we are all getting ready for it here at the shop. We dug out the old christmas snow man and put it in the window which brightens up the shop no end.
Just thought you would like a look at the new brooks saddle display. We do sell a lot of Brook,s saddles and because of this Brooks sent us this display. It.s not road legal as it has no brakes but I like it.
Here we have a proper photo. Here you see Derek working on a fork crown. This was one of a whole load of photos taken by Chris Floyd the other week for a management magazine we where in . The quality of these photos are out of this world. I would like to say thank you Chris for them.
We had a email the other day which went down well with all concerned with the build of this bike . I quote a couple of paragraphs from his letter. I just wanted to say thank you and offer a picture for your gallery, to show you my frame built up. It's a thing of great beauty and I've never ridden
This picture shows a King of Mercia frame with the stainless steel S & S couplings just before it gets put together as a complete bike ( the customer has supplied most of the equipment ) . It has a slight overspray of blue with the blue head tube to match and please note the gold outline of the tra
