Then one day you were roughly woken from a nap and brought into the work room at Classic Cycle. At Jeff’s Classic Cycle shop you met a bunch of old timers like yourself, and you talked about the old days… The cobblestones, racing around, snaring dresses and trouser legs with your chain… It was a good retirement. In the ’80′s your family decided to sell your garage (along with their house) and you were given to a guy named Jeff who seemed to like your kind. You kids and your stickers! Get a real head tube badge! Harry raised the original $16.50 purchase price by collecting clam shells from the Minnesota river and selling them to a local button factory.īy the way, if you take a look at the Iver Johnson Truss-bridge bike from the same era, you’ll note that the RaCycle was about a third of the price of the Iver Johnson. This bike was originally owned by Harry Nettleton of Red Wing, Minnesota. They connected people with jobs and schools, connected rural areas of the country with cities, connected extended families (and liberated family members from one another). However they were judged, early “safety” bicycles like this one really brought inexpensive personal transportation to the masses. According to the manufacturer, a 1904 Worlds Fair jury “consisting of the ablest consulting and manufacturing engineers in Europe and America, were unanimous in their decision that the Racycle was the most perfectly constructed, easiest running bicycle in the world.” The copy in old advertising and press releases like this one was so earnest. Front fender has a bit of a bow in it, check the pictures and you will see it.Check out the old ad that we found for RaCycle bikes.
Condition: used condition, fenders are rusty and chippy paint in spots, tires need replaced. If you need additional pictures just let me know what part of the bike you need pictured and I will get them to you. Have no idea if the 3 speed works exactly proper or not but I shifted the gears and they all seemed to engage. Both fenders front and back have chippy paint and some rust.
#HERCULES BICYCLE SERIAL NUMBERS CRACKED#
Tires need to be replaced, cracked and weathered. The number engraved by the Made in England label I believe is just a prior owner's phone number if it happened to go missing. AMF I believe assembled some Raleigh bikes and there is a sticker with AMF on chain guard.
#HERCULES BICYCLE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
I do not know the exact year this one was made, from the location of serial number and little research I can find guessing 1970. Item: 352977715783 Raleigh Hercules 3 speed bicycle 26" Made in England 1273471 AMF.
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