Bicycle Mechanics - Can anyone tell me about this bike??

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Rath177B
11-01-03, 12:08 PM
It is a Hercules Nepal. All of the stickers are in German. I did find a German web site for Hercules that has Nepals but that all have fenders and racks etc... Mine looks similar (the color and style of the decals and look of the frame) but is missing the fenders and rack. I supose they could have been removed at some point in time. It looks and rides great. It looks like it has Woods valves. (I just found out about different valves yesterday.)

legalize_it
11-04-03, 04:21 PM
It is a Hercules Nepal. All of the stickers are in German. I did find a German web site for Hercules that has Nepals but that all have fenders and racks etc... Mine looks similar (the color and style of the decals and look of the frame) but is missing the fenders and rack. I supose they could have been removed at some point in time. It looks and rides great. It looks like it has Woods valves. (I just found out about different valves yesterday.)


i also have an old hercules 3spd that i know nothing about...maybe you get send that link my way? mine is a ladies frame, and has a double top tube. its pretty cool, but i never ride it.
Richard D
11-05-03, 04:26 AM
Raleigh used to produce bikes under the Hercules name in the UK. Most of the ones I see seem to be blue or bronze shoppers but I expect they produced others.

Rath177B
11-05-03, 07:11 PM
This is the link to the company web site. websitehttp://www.hercules-bikes.de/frmMain_low.html
I was wondering if someone knew it they were good quality bikes. I bought the bike used and it seems to be high quality but I don't know much about good bikes.