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Author: Alt Design

Simons Bike

I just wanted to pass on my thanks and appreciation. I had a Strada Speciale frame built up by you and which I took delivery of late last year (09). I had long hankered after a Mercian and I wanted it built up to be as close as possible to the steel racers of my…

Phil from the spray shop

Just thought you would like to see the chap who is part and parcel of the spray shop. Two photos here one before the off on a charity 50 and the other as he passes the finish line with one of his lads Ryan waving him home. ( come on Phil start saving for that…

Martin’s Vigorelli

I’m emailing to let you know how pleased I am with my Mercian frame Ihad built up last year. For the past 10 months I’ve been riding it oncheap parts I had lying around but have now rebuilt it using some farbetter components to really do it justice. It’s such a dream to ride,feels really…

Jeff and Dave on a flyer

Well Jeff the shop ergoman on front of the tandem and Dave are flying at the moment and below is a snippet from a couple of the emails he has sent me. A few stat’s Three national veterans records broken this year, all three are records which we held in 2009, age 62/63, THE TWO…

Leigh is on his way

Well Leigh set out today from the council steps with the mayor of Derby to wave him on his way. There was quite a crowd their to see him off on his 3 year journey around the world. Please help Leigh’s charity by clicking on the link on the blog page. I will be posting…

Tweed Run London

This was taken at the end of ride party at theBathouse in the City of London. Great fun was had by all! Ted and Jacqui (the organisers) are standing in the middle of the photo.As you can see they all look like thay had a great time .If you fancy riding the Tweed Run please…

Alistair’s fab looking bike

I think you will agree with us this is a very nice looking bike indeed. Below is his email which he sent us earlier this week…. Just a quick note to belatedly thank you for putting together such a great bike and for the really helpful advice given by your team when i was wrestling…

The lads from the spray shop

As requested by Anon earlier this week here we have Phil ( left ) and Rob. You can see they are very happy in their work.

Leigh Expedition Frame

Leigh called into the shop the other day to pick up his Round the world frame. He is building it up over the weekend and we should have a picture of the complete bike sometime next week. You can see and follow his journey here on our site and also on leighs web site here….

1959 Vincitore track bike

We had Pat visit us today to show us his Vincitore track bike which his dad ordered from Mercian in 1958. The frame has recently been sprayed by us in 1996. As you see its been well looked after over the years with a few equipment upgrades. Pat’s dad Stewart also had 2 King of…

Steves new 853 o/s Pro-Lugless

Hi There,I recently took delivery of a Mercian 853o/s Pro Lugless frameset and have finally finished building it into a complete bike. I waited until I had done this before giving you guys some feedback. I rode the bike up and down Hartside near Penrith and Alston this morning for its first ride. Quite simply…

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