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Absolutely gorgeous! Great colour scheme. I too rode a Zephyr for many years, lovely bicycle.

A frame of great beauty! I had a horrible thought a while back that Mercian had stopped making the Velocita. Clearly not and hurrah for that!! Some super fast miles ahead...

Cheers! I feel very privileged to be able to add another beautiful frame to this splendid forum.

Cheers. Yes, it came out rather large! It has the classic 'fists worth' of seat post on show and fits beautifully. I'm about six foot four and normally ride 24" frames but the Mercian came in at 25 and a 1/4".

Cheers!
Parts are Veloce 170 triple chainset (I'm hopeless with hills) and front mech. Sun XCD rear mech (the lovely Suntour Cyclone MK1 long cage that I sourced broke on the first outing). Centaur dual pivots and bottom bracket. Super Record brake levers and Record headset, seat post and small flange hubs. Mavic Ma2 32/40. 3TTT Record 84 stem, Morphe bars and tape. Suntour Perfect 14-24 6 speed freewheel. Brooks B17 Special. Crank Brothers Candy pedals. TA bottle cages and as many beautiful Campagnolo clips as I could use!! I think that's it?! Mercian said they only had a couple of sets of the limited 531 tubes left when I was measured up for this frame, so I'm very pleased I was able to own one. I was adamant about having a spot of chrome and the fork crown was the cheapest option but as you'd expect, it's stunning. I've only done century rides since building the frame up and those 400 miles have been glorious. Thanks again.

Hello,
I hope you don't mind if I add my custom King of Mercia to proceedings? After a wait of thirteen long months the stunning frame is now built up with as many Italian jewels as funds would allow. She was delivered to me in June, she's called Eileen and I'm in love.

Good afternoon, good people.
Here's one for you: did Witcomb have badged handlebars made for them?
I've just unravelled a pair from an old Holdsworth and they have stamp identical to that of the Witcomb crest. Upper case serif W with London England in a scroll below and laurel leaves around the side.
I don't own a Witcomb or know that much about them so I thought I'd put it to a London forum...

Thank you all very much indeed. Splendid comments like these will make the miles seem like inches...

My fine and resplendent Ladies and Gentleman,
Being inspired by both of the magnificent Tweed Run events I have decided to cycle 900 miles during my Summer Hols for charity.
I leave from Folkestone in Kent and will peddle my way up the country to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides!
The charities are the Harris Tweed Educational Trust and the other one is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Both causes are very dear to my heart and I believe very worthwhile. The Educational Trust has been recently set up to ensure that young people from the Outer Hebrides and indeed further afield, are educated and informed about this most cherished and beautiful, but sometimes fragile parts of Scotland’s national heritage. The RNLI have been a charitable trust that has been saving lives at sea since 1824.
I shall be carrying everything on my trusty Holdsworth and camping every night just to make it more fun. I shall of course be putting up bunting when camped just to add a little sparkle! My moustache will be stiff and fruity and tweed shall be worn at all times!
Should any of you lovely people wish to donate my chosen charities that would a truly wonderful thing and I thank you from the very corners of my heart.
Should any of you lovely people see me bicycle past and I hear the cry 'HARRIS TWEED FLOATS MY BOAT!' I shall stop and enjoy a small glass of gin with you by the roadside...
I shan't take up anymore of time apart from to say, thank you for reading this and here are the links to the Just Giving and a Facebook fan page:
http://www.justgiving.com/The-Very-Long-Tweed-Ride
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HARRIS-TWEED-FLOATS-MY-BOAT/112980402079922
My very kindest regards,
Kelvin.

My darling people in Tweed. What a day. What a spectacle. What larks and what a joy to be cycling amongst you all again for a second sartorial year. Teddy should be knighted and the marshalls and organisers should all receive OBE's. All the ugliness and vileness of taxi drivers aside for the moment, it does go to show that 400 beautiful people can lift the spirits of a city and long may the Tweed Run reign and long may it be kept in the spirit splendidness.

the next tweed run is planned for the first weekend in march. hold out until then, it'll be worth it...

but we are planning to host a tweed run christmas party with bike fun (keep that under your hat though, it's still a secret...)

and stay tuned for a few exciting non-ride-related announcements

This is very good news indeed! Hurrah the Tweed Run!!

Good people in Tweed,
Many of you fine and splendid folk would have seen my friend Steve having a little sit down on the Hackney Road after a spill. May I take this opportunity to update you on his progress.
Bearing in mind that he finished the run and then cycled home, Steve suffered deep bruising to his shoulder and left knee and broke the base of his femur!!
After this sterling effort he is now resting by a roaring fire, re-reading Jerome K Jerome and learning to play the banjo.
Thank you all again for your help and concern and special thanks to Andrew, the two fellows who righted his Bob Jackson and to the delightful lady who gave him her water.

Can a chap have too much fun? I simply haven't stopped grinning all day.
Thank you so much to everyone who arranged, organized, sponsored and marshalled; it was a truly perfect day. I was lucky enough to win the Huntsman tie and I'm too scared to put it on! Far too refined for a tramp like me...
You were all so welcoming (I came up from Folkestone) it's a very, very fine thing that you have going on. Hurrah and Huzzah.

1. Teddy
   
2. Dancing james
   
3. Sharkstar
   
4. Dmczone
   
5. Coppithat
   
6. Edscoble
   
7. The bonk
   
8. Superprecise
   
9. Charco
   
10. Edmundro
    
11. Celadon
    
12. Mister k
    
13. Gustav
    
14. Nick
    
15. Harry
    
16. Alockett
    
17. Ved
    
18. Wools
    
19. Tricitybendix
    
20. Jeanmi + some (tbc)
    
21. Ektachrome
    
22. Shootthebreeze
    
23. Kattt
    
24. Velocityboy
    
25. Ladystardust (who still isn't registered)
    
26. JD
    
27. Wibble
    
28. tilover (coming from yorkshire)
    
29. non forum member lady (coming from canterbury)
    
30. JOL
    
31. t®um
    
32. PinkGottiMobbs
    
33. veLLo
    
34. Littigator.....HUZZAH!
    
35. Fresh
    
36. tex
    
37. miss socks
    
38. dan(j-d-s-h)
    
39. BlueQuinn
    
40. villa-ru
    
41. Fluff plus one
    
42. Spins esq.
    
43. stevo_com
    
44. Dapper Slag
    
45. Master Stringerman
    
46. Cornelius Tweedfoot. (must buy tweed, must buy tweed, must buy tweed)
    
47. Master Stringerman's footman (possibly gf)
    
48. andyp
    
49. OliDale (possibly with brother)
    
50. Van Damage
    
51. jar (tentative)
    
52. hillbilly! PISSED!
    
53. 1950:14 (Reliving the golden years!)
    
54. Jesus Christ our lord and saviour
    
55. 105champ
    
56. 105champ's wench
    
57. Hewitt (need some tweed first though)
    58.Stix (In need of tweed too !)
    
58. snowy_again
    
59. Bristly Pioneer (what what)
    
60. Deluka - hope newbs welcome?
    
61. tVeedtVeed
    
62. Big Red Monocle
    
63. SlimJim
    
64. MJS. I'll bring my Kodak Brownie.
    
65. eyebrows, i live for tweed
    
66. Jim Jones
    
67. Sir Pirat of Rawlinson End
    
68. EtonWill (in borrowed clobber)
    
69. dante
    
70. miss kitty valentine
    
71. Barbados
    
72. Crowbar
    
73. Clever Pun
    
74. gormley
    
75. Andyfallsoff
    
76. purple_tom
    
77. motman
    
78. Hamst*r
    
79. Paperboy
    
80. Mrs Littigator (double huzzah!)
    
81. Master Harry Hudson Esq.
    
82. Bruno (of Bruno and Dave)
    
83. Dave (The Singing Pie) (of Bruno and Dave)
    
84. Gwyndreth Scissorhands
    
85. Simpson79
    
86. philjay
    
87. morgasm !
    
88. uncleyacov
    
89. JAH tweed
    
90. Master Addie of Le Menton
    
91. Lord Atomic of the A.
    
92. The Rt Honourable David the Sprocketeer
    
93. Lord Duncan of Donut! (Tweed depending)
    
94. Lady Amelia of Beardly-Moustache (probably)
    
95. Elguapo, (Gotta Find Tweed! aint comin without it)
    
96. goodhead
    
97. Count Mobi von Dog
    
98. Bareknuckle Pugilist Wayne
    
99. Dilworth
    
100. moog (in tweed accessories)
     
101. mowgster (needing tweeding)
     
102. Lego
     
103. Wardamercy + 1
     
104. Bobs Dids
     
105. marcoisapolo
     
106. George Sportif Esquire
     
107. mmccarthy (hopefully getting some tweed tomorrow, can you get a tweed t-shirt? =P)
     
108. mullerbugs
     
109. smeear (ooops forgot to add my name) ill be there with some goodie
     
110. Crispin Glover Don't have any tweed though. I have a slim volume of poetry though.
     
111. BigFatAl
     
112. Jayloo!
     
113. Le car (if I can fit my basket on my gitane)
     115 Wharry
     
114. jonny
     
115. jashburnham
     
116. evennumbers
     
117. sol ( on and off though )
     
118. Karen
     
119. Cake
     
120. RENE
     
121. yebo
     
122. yebos wench and / or yebo's mate pete
     
123. Samuel Dodger Esquire.
     
124. supersim65 (Si) +1
     
125. BurtReynolds531 + 1