Well the day we have all been dreading has dawned John has left us. He has worked for us in excess of 20 years and in that time made a lot of customers frame dreams come true. I and all of us at Mercian wish you all the best. Surf’s up John .

First of all sorry for the the lack of posts just recently I have been so busy. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible as they say. I promise to get my act together as soon as I can. Interviews for the shop job starts tomorrow so I’ll be posting a picture of…

We are having some trouble with the shop shutter. It makes the shop look shut but we are open our normal times.

Not a lot to say today really only that I have started a Facebook page. Try and find it. I will when possible try and post a link to it so it should be easier to find. Take a look anyway on Mercian Cycles ltd . Hope you find it and post a picture and…

The other day we had a visit from these lads ( Brent, Lyndon, Adri and Ant) . Well I hear you say whats so good about that. Well they came from Australia thats whats good about that. They had a tour of the workshop and spray shop and all found it very interesting and where…

Meet Mr Fox he has made his home at the back of the shop and sleeps on the flat roof of the workshop. We see him most days and he is quite cheeky. The other day he just wandered into the workshop to have a look around ! When we have a bite to eat…

Just thought you would like to see a picture of this customer (Tony) who came from the Orkney Island today to collect his bike. He will be stopping down here with family for the evening before traveling home tomorrow. He flew down a few months ago to go through the order with John . We…

These forks are in our opinion one of the best on the market. If we have a customer who wishes for a carbon fork we would recommend these. One problem there is no mudguard clearance. There are carbon forks which we can supply with mudguard clearance but only then with short reach brakes.

The majority of the tools we have at the shop are obviously professional standard but the kit we use the most is this tool kit made by Campagnolo. It does all the jobs very well indeed. From chasing threads to making sure the rear dropouts are parallel ( the biggest reason you break rear axles).

Well it’s my first day back from a short break and found the very sad news that Ian has been killed on one of his journeys across our small planet. This to me is a very sad time, he was a very good customer of ours, always calling in our shop on the way to…

I know its not the best shot in the world but this is Jeff’s bench where all the ergo levers are repaired. It’s where I do the wheel builds as well as the wheel repairs the VAR wheel jig is by the way the best wheel jig you can get its very solidly built and…

Ok yesterday in the comment I was asked by John is it ok to clamp a frame by a top tube in a frame jig . Well the easy answer to this is of course yes. But what do you use to protect the frame I here you all cry out in unison. Well the…