Sister Annie
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Hauraki Plains District, New Zealand
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Bikes: Retro Hercules adult tricycle, 1953 Hercules ladies roadster, 1950s Wearwell fixed gear 'Club' pathracer, 1980s Malvern Star 'Super Star', 1980s Healing GTX-105 Arabesque, 1980's Morrison Concorde & etc & etc.......
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Oh my word you are the most fortunate of men
That is a beautiful example of a totally original Hercules that you have there. I have a 1953 Hercules ladies roadster and it's one of my favourite bicycles in my small collection (fleet?). I also have a shabby and incomplete Birmingham Hercules ladies sports that I hauled out of the local rubbish tip and very much want to breath back into life.
Hercules bicycles are magnificent bicycles and in a way I wish I'd spent more time looking for them instead of all those years I spent trying to find a perfect Rudge (the Holy Grail?).
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