Back in March of 2011 I was offered a Hercules Roadster for the cost of shipping. I was working a contract job in Wichita at the time and when the bike arrived at my home in St Louis, my son stuck it in the garage, still packed in the shipping box. That box remained sealed until today when I opened it to quickly check the bike, though not removing it.
The photos below were taken by the previous owner and hopefully they will be enough to help ID the model and possibly year of manufacture. I should say that the rear hub, the Simplex rear derailleur and the both shift levers, not original to the bike, were removed from the bike prior to shipping.
You can see the faint outline of the circular head badge on the steering tube. This badge was replaced with the shield shaped badge around 1950.
I friend from the UK stated that this may be a Hercules Popular, and from what I've seen on the internet, I am leaning towards that belief. I found this web site, http://herculesmuseum.wordpress.com/...ercules-gents/ which could help in pin pointing the specific model and perhaps zero in on the year.
Any thoughts?
The photos below were taken by the previous owner and hopefully they will be enough to help ID the model and possibly year of manufacture. I should say that the rear hub, the Simplex rear derailleur and the both shift levers, not original to the bike, were removed from the bike prior to shipping.
You can see the faint outline of the circular head badge on the steering tube. This badge was replaced with the shield shaped badge around 1950.
I friend from the UK stated that this may be a Hercules Popular, and from what I've seen on the internet, I am leaning towards that belief. I found this web site, http://herculesmuseum.wordpress.com/...ercules-gents/ which could help in pin pointing the specific model and perhaps zero in on the year.
Any thoughts?
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