robynbiker
New member
Hercules ladies looped bicycle? I live in West midlands UK, I bought a Vintage Hercules bicycle which is a ladies looped frame of around 1929. I have restored the frame, etc, but i have hit a problem which appears to be impossible to solve.
The headstock bearings are not complete. I can get replacement ball bearings from Halfords, but it is impossible to get the races.
I have tried alot of places locally and online, but no one has anything, or they simply do not respond to e-mails/ answer phone or return phone calls when they say they will phone me back!.
places tried online.
oldbike-worldpress
Vintage bicycle musuem
The old bicycle company
Big Al's bicycle Emporium
http://sheldonbrown.com/ - tried they only have what is on the website- no vintage parts
Hercules musuem is only that, no parts order/ search on it. Ive looked at that site countless times, and it has a herc like mine with a sidecar- but my frame is loads better- hand painted pinstripes, not vinyl tape!
When i say races i mean the part that the bearings seat into and run in. there is 4 races in a headstock, two in the top , two in the bottom. and the bearings sit loosely inbetween in the channel.
Im missing the lower race that slots in the frame.
- ive e-mailed freemans cycles ( fingers crossed)
-oldbiketrader.co.uk-tried no reply
-theoldbicycleshowroom-tried no reply
-cyclesofyesteryear.com- ive emailed them, so fingers crossed!
-madeinbirmingham.org/hercules- just e-mailed them
-herculesmuseum.wordpress.com/- tried b4 no reply
Black Country Museum have a cycling section? dont know, but will look into it
-Where in the West Midlands are you? there a still few old style LBS. Walsall
Bache Bros at Lye.
Great Bridge Bikes at Great Bridge
Russells at Walsall-tried nope
Prices at Sedgley
Dugmores at W'ton-tried
The headstock bearings are not complete. I can get replacement ball bearings from Halfords, but it is impossible to get the races.
I have tried alot of places locally and online, but no one has anything, or they simply do not respond to e-mails/ answer phone or return phone calls when they say they will phone me back!.
places tried online.
oldbike-worldpress
Vintage bicycle musuem
The old bicycle company
Big Al's bicycle Emporium
http://sheldonbrown.com/ - tried they only have what is on the website- no vintage parts
Hercules musuem is only that, no parts order/ search on it. Ive looked at that site countless times, and it has a herc like mine with a sidecar- but my frame is loads better- hand painted pinstripes, not vinyl tape!
When i say races i mean the part that the bearings seat into and run in. there is 4 races in a headstock, two in the top , two in the bottom. and the bearings sit loosely inbetween in the channel.
Im missing the lower race that slots in the frame.
- ive e-mailed freemans cycles ( fingers crossed)
-oldbiketrader.co.uk-tried no reply
-theoldbicycleshowroom-tried no reply
-cyclesofyesteryear.com- ive emailed them, so fingers crossed!
-madeinbirmingham.org/hercules- just e-mailed them
-herculesmuseum.wordpress.com/- tried b4 no reply
Black Country Museum have a cycling section? dont know, but will look into it
-Where in the West Midlands are you? there a still few old style LBS. Walsall
Bache Bros at Lye.
Great Bridge Bikes at Great Bridge
Russells at Walsall-tried nope
Prices at Sedgley
Dugmores at W'ton-tried