Have you cut the steerer yet?
Not a good idea when it's threaded...
Booo. Coming in here amd spoiling my standard thorn joke.
Such a shame to see Mercian close up. A beautifully crafted frame that stood out whenever one was spotted in the wild
I agree though that innovation and adaptation was needed. It's worked for pashley where the original style is presented but with modern twists, such as the Morgan guvnor
A little pedal over lap is no probem, nearly all my roadies have a little. A lot requires care. Can anyone beat this - size 9 with toe joint above the axle:
Wheelbase is 97.2 with a straight seattube.
I'm using a offset cleat adaptor (+24mm) on my road bikes, so yes, almost certainly.
Almost certainly no, shoes redrilled 22mm behind normal holes and then cleats as far back as they'll go. 🙂
No idea how to post pics now all my edit buttons have gone but modern and lugged can be done as shown in thing really nice fork.
And here
Very nice, how about a plug for whoever made it.
Random Facebook thing with no details I'm afraid.
Although I don't think it is... that could easily be a Clandestine https://www.instagram.com/clandestine.cc/?hl=en
Crown on this one has more than a hint of Mercian about it.
There are plenty of people who want something different to a big name carbon race bike - see Fairlight, Mason etc. And there might well be a sizeable number of people willing to pay the premium to have something like that made custom for them in the UK. But it's a long way from there to buying a Mercian.
This doesn't read well. 🙁
https://road.cc/content/news/mercian-cycles-customers-raised-alarm-over-poor-service-308643
I ordered their most expensive custom frameset, a Pro Lugless44, and was very specific in what I wanted it to do. It finally arrived after a two-year wait
From the article. A two year wait? They were either a lot busier with orders that I had guessed or it is not surprising very few people were buying from them.
That road.cc thread isn't good to read. When I said earlier up the thread that there can be other reasons for all this unrelated to product demand, that's what I meant but didn't want to start on the negative stuff. I was a potential Mercian buyer a few years ago but didn't get a good feeling about the whole process from the early spec discussion onwards. I went elsewhere. A chap I know went ahead with an order about a year later and the frame went back in the end due to the build quality issues. I wasn't sure if our experiences were representative but they may have been.
It's a shame when a brand with such heritage goes that way, there's not many old school frame shops in the UK and I wanted to buy from one. In the end I got a lugged Reynolds frame from Lee Cooper, nothing flashy, but all bar the dropouts are from local industry and it rides beautifully.
Hopefully Mercian will find a buyer and continue.
Yay!
Mercian has been saved:
https://road.cc/content/news/mercian-cycles-saved-four-local-businessmen-309121