Originally Posted by rekmeyata

To add what others have said, the Mercian is even a better frame then anything Rivendell puts out...oh god , now I've gone off the deep end. But I wholly stand by what I said, I to own a 07 Mercian Vincitore, and was considering a Atlantis from Rivedell, but for the same price as a Atlantis I got a bunch of custom features that Rivendell could not do. And there's just something oddly wonderful about a bike built the way they were built in the early 1900's using a hearth to heat the tube sets and put the tubes together. And as old of a process used to make the frames they hold up amazingly well, even better then the Rivendell's who lately have had some issues of stays breaking. I may be going out on a limb here, but I've done that before so no biggie, but I think their the best hand made steel bike in the world today...there I said it now crucify me.

It's a wonderful bike and wonderfully made by artisans not some robot or assembly line process, only one artisan is assigned to a Mercian frame from start to finish not several who could care less what the previous person did on it.