Who built your bike?
- by mercredi
- posted December 1, 2017
I wanted a fast, beautiful and well-made steel road racing bike. The story below is how I came to be a proud owner of a Mercredi. Words by Richy Poynter. Meet...
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Grinduro 2017
- by mercredi
- posted July 31, 2017
There’s grit in the corners of my eyes when I wake up on the sleeper train chair in London Euston. Actually, there’s grit everywhere. It’s like I’ve been in a fight with...
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A year in steel
- by mercredi
- posted March 30, 2017
Spring – Holding up that first frame, my heart rate is through the roof. It won’t come down anytime soon. When I sign up for 3 Peaks CX, I think “If...
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3 Peaks CX
- by mercredi
- posted October 6, 2016
It all started to happen at the same time. The cross season finishes, I quit my job, applications for 3 Peaks open, I’m making a cross bike and we have become a...
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South Downs Way, take two.
- by mercredi
- posted August 6, 2016
August 2016 – Originally posted on the Brooks England blog About a year ago, as hundreds of glittery sandals and Hawaiian shirts headed to a festival in a park behind my flat,...
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