Please remember when you want your rear wheel rebuilt you take the freewheel off Before you cut the spokes out. It makes the wheel builders job very difficult to say the least. We have no way of holding the hub to remove the freewheel to get the spokes into the spoke holes. This one belongs…
Author: Alt Design
Velocita
First of all sorry about the lack of a post last night I had to go out almost direct from work so had very little time on my hands. Anyway enough of the excuses lets get on with it. Ok not the best picture in the world but it does the job. As you see…
London calling
For me it was a short day at the shop today. I had to take a couple of our bikes down to London for a photo shoot for leading mens style magazine. They will be at London for a few days while the photos are taken then I will go and pick them up and…
Thank you Chris
This is John our main shop man and the surfer dude. The picture was sent in by Mercians biggest fan Chris from one of his many visits to our shop from Ireland. Chris has a great flickr site and definitely worth a look which I will try and link elsewhere on this site. (by the…
Frames all in a line
Just before I waffle on about the picture we have a vacancy in our shop details can be found at http://www.bikebiz.com/jobs/1094/retail-sales-person John wants to retire so he can go surfing all day but we will not let him go until we have a replacement to fill his boots. He is a tough act to follow….
Ergo Man
Meet Jeff The Ergo Man, if there is anything you need to know about ergos Jeff is the man. He is also our tandem man and has held 6 National Competition tandem Records. One of them lasted for 28 years – the mens 50 which he did with Richard. He was also in the first…
Mercian frame and web site !
Well this frame left us today on its way up to Scotland and I think it looks the business ( lucky Peter ). It has the new vinyl transfers which to my eyes look really nice. On a different tack we ( not me but our web builders) are working on a new web site…
Frame checking
First of all thank you Fred for your comment I will try and sort it. The email address is in my profile by the way. Today with help from Carl ( in the picture) was a frame checking day. We check all the custom/ stock frames before paint. I built another Rohloff wheel today (700c)…
Campagnolo Record and Super Record
Well at last we know what the new 11spd equipment is all about. As you can see the rear gears look very nice especially the super record rear gear. The Ergo lever looks very nice but dare I say it look,s a bit like S-Ram to me ! Well the total super record group should…
A Vincitore Track bike
Just a picture today of a Vincitore track bike ( yet another track bike) being put together by Gav the shop manager. Jeff the ergo man has been looking at the Mercian blog today and I think he is about to put one together himself about the South Pennine Road Club if he does I…
Rob,s hard day at work
As you can see Rob has had a really hard day at work today. It must have been all that spray booth cleaning a Rob hehe.
A day in a spray booth
Today was the day to clean one of the spray booth,s Replace bearings in the fans and give the place a general sprucing. To say it was a mucky job would be a understatement .