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Author: Alt Design

Street track bike

Gav has just put this together for display in the shop. I thought you would like a look at it before it goes on display. No mudguard clearance gives this bike a sporty look. Please note the chrome work and the track end adjusters.

Keep this secret

This is a picture of a customers request for the frame Builder, sprayer and frame finisher ( Derek , Rob and Phil) name to be on the frame. I think it looks really good but in reality its very hard to do indeed. Thats why everyone asked me not to put it on the blog.

Letter from America

Here we have a picture sent in to me by Chris from Boston , Mass USA and I have put a quote from his letter below :- I have been riding the new Mercian Audax Special for a few weeks, but only yesterday did I finally have a chance for a long ride, and to…

Gary from London Vincitore Track bike

Please find attached two pictures of my vincitore special track which I took last summer just after I had received it and put it together. needless to say the bike has been great, I changed to a fizik arione saddle after not really getting on with the B17 special; otherwise it is the same (despite…

Better late than never

Dave and Lydia sent me this email some time ago now. I have cut and copied there email for you to read. We bought the tandem over 16 years ago now after spending hours with Geof at the showroom discussing our requirements. Clocked 60mph once downhill in the Goyt valley/Peak district with absolutely perfect handling….

Picture sent to me by Carl

I quote from carls email .Attached picture of my wife and her Audax Special somewhere in between Attersee and Gmunden in the Austrain lake district (Salzkammergut). I have a matching bike and we think they are the most comfortable bikes ever. Best money we ever spent. This year we flew into Slazburg and cycled to…

Mercians on holiday

We had this photo sent to us some time ago now but at last its on the blog sorry for the delay. The picture was taken looking over the Rhine in southern Germany byKen and Hilary fromNuneaton, Warwickshire.

iPhone (Useless)

Sorry for the lack of updates or replies to emails over the past few days. My so called Jesus phone (iPhone) has packed up. It does not receive the signal from O2, my service provider over here in the UK, so I took it back to the store, where you would have thought they could…

Married

Another quick note, I married Jane last Thursday after a 26 year engagement…

Just a quick note

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!

953 Track bike ( bigger picture ) thank,s Ian

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.

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