Hi Mercian Thought you may like to know of the existence of Ken Parrott’s old Crowbar 547 now residing in Tasmania ? Ken was a Coventry Touring Clubman in the late 1940’s early 1950’s a good allround racer representing England in the first world cyclo cross in spain. Narrowly missing out on Olympic selection in…
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Chucks Mercian Track Bike
Here’s some pictures of my 1960 Mercian Superlight Vigorelli I’ve owned for twenty five years. More details available here http://bikeretrogrouch.blogspot.com/2015/12/chuck-schmidts-59-mercian.html
Michaels bike build
Rear derailleur NOS Campagnolo Nuovo Gran Sport ( 1980’s) Crankset NOS Campagnolo Super Record Crankset ( 1980’s) Nitto Riser Handlebars and Stem Brooks Saddle and Grips Dia-Compe Thumb Shifter Velo Orange Porteur Rack
Mercian bilaminated
Hello all at Mercian, have been working on Les Bilaminated Mercian track bike and slotted it together. Thought you may like to see a couple of photos of the completed bike, as many period parts fitted as we could find, lovely bike, cheers, Vic. Sprayed and detailed by Rob and Mark
A new beginning
After 74 years on the high street – Mercian’s going home! At the end of this month, November 2018 we’ll be leaving behind our lovely retail neighbours in Alvaston and downscaling our showroom to move everything over to our manufacturing Workshop. We don’t need to add our two penn’orth to what’s happening to…
Grants Mercian collection
Hello On the 4 May last I collected my 2nd custom built frame from you – An Audax Special. This is to complement my earlier custom build – A King of Mercia, completed Spring 2013. 2013 King of Mercia 64.5cm (Dry weather Mercian). Hope Headset. Shimano 105 Hubs, Compact Chainset & F&R mechs, Cassette….
Ians Mercian
Before moving to the USA, I lived in South Africa. My 58 cm Strada Speciale was custom built for me and shipped to SA, in 1980 – Serial No. 46180 – 2, at the unbelievable price of 149 pounds stirling, including the extra for chromed front and rear ends!! Now after 38 years, it was…
Nell enjoying the ride
Andrew has just sent in a few pictures from a recent tour. Nell his dog enjoying the easy life in his trailer. Have you got and pets on tour pictures ? We would love to see them 🙂
Ey Up Mi Duck Race 2018
We have entered Sir Chrispy Pekin Hoy into this first gruelling river race. We hope he does well. Its held annually at the Riverside , Derby River Gardens and proceeds go to charity. The event starts at 11 am and the finishes at 3 pm. The race starts at 1.30pm. The shop is going to…
James from Louisiana
Mercian Professional. Mine since 1979. I put straight bars on it after some surgery on my neck. I’m all healed now, but it’s nice to cruise around upright. This bike handles as smoothly now as it did when it was new. Reynolds 531, Cinelli hand-cut spear point lugs, wrap-around seat stay. (I’m also running Basso,…
Get in contact or not !
Its has come to our attention that some emails have gone missing when sent from our get in contact page. We have our web people working on it right now. Apparently its to do with spam filters ! If you did send a email from this page and did not get a reply please try…
David’s fund raising ride.
Lead a group of 66 riders from Birmingham (Alabama) to Camp Smile a Mile, a therapy camp for children with cancer. Raised $62,000 for the programs. Route was 152.5 miles, with 7900 feet of climbing. This is the rebuild Professional 1977 that was just completed. The guy behind me comes from Birmingham Enland and has…