Mercian cycles call it a day .

[Tsundere]

I tried to book a frame in with them for painting recently and they never got back to me. I did think it was odd as I've used them before. After a couple of emails went unanswered I ended up going elsewhere.

Very sad to hear.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Prices are rising already!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14576030...5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EB221302984&

 

[Rapparee87]

My very first 'lightweight' as a 14yr old in 1981 was a secondhand Mercian, 531sl tubing. It was orange and white. Bought from Rutland Cycles, North Frederick St. Dublin. I raced it for 6 years.

Mercians were very popular in Ireland at the time. Sean Kelly rode one as a junior when winning the senior All-Ireland road title in the 1970s. Or around that time anyway.

 

[Nob]

Sad news as I’d recently got some Campag Shamal spokes nipples etc which you couldn’t get anywhere else…as they stocked a few hard to get older Campagnolo spares..

 

[chickendrumsticks]

Prices are rising already!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14576030...5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EB221302984&

But 8 grand? Surely shome mishtake!

 

[chickendrumsticks]

Prices are rising already!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14576030...5338365712&toolid=20006&customid=EB221302984&

And yet... In April/May N&V of the VCC there's one for sale @ £175! Reading. Page 33

 

[bikeworkshop]

Nothing mercian has sold in the last several months for over 750, apart from this:

Course we don't know what bongos took as an offer, but that's a pretty retro piece.

 

[minor_LEGEND]

That's a shame.
I got into cycling at a young age, going with the family on rides with our local cycling club. I always remember the guy that had a really nice looking Mercian. That's what they meant to me.

 

[paton]

Paul at Ellis Briggs has some thoughts

 

[bagpuss]

I don't think there will be a big raise in the sales of second hand frames . If they aren't selling already at fair prices.
The retro market is dying a slow death .