LIVERPOOL Mercury (Dolan) Cycling Club has been around for more than half a century, but during the last two years the club’s membership has witnessed a boom that no other club can come close to matching in the North West.
Based at the £5.5m Litherland Sports Park in Boundary Lane, the club boasts its own dedicated £300,000 cycling circuit designed by British Cycling, as well as state-of-the-art facilities such as meeting and changing rooms, loan bikes and ample parking.
Liverpool Mercury (Dolan) Cycling Club, as it is known today, began its journey from the culmination of two former cycling clubs, Liverpool Racing Cycling Club and Mercury.
In 1949, they joined forces to form the Liverpool Mercury Racing Club. This title has again changed to its present name of Liverpool Mercury Cycling Club since 2000, omitting the word “racing”, as it was thought intimidating to new members.
Back in the days of the Liverpool Racing Cycling Club, the club colours were blue and white, while Mercury riders sported green and red. When the two clubs amalgamated, the green and red was dropped and Liverpool Mercury Racing Club adopted the colours blue and white, which are still worn today.
Liverpool Mercury’s first champion was Gerry (Nobby) Nolan, who won the Merseyside Divisional Junior Championship in 1960.  Liverpool Mercury still holds quite an impressive record of achievements both locally, national and international since the 1960s right up to the present day.