Brought her into the shop today to get the headlamp working again. A nice young dude looking for NOS BMX parts stopped to admire Audrey and gushed over how its so wonderful that I found her in NOS condition. He asked the uncle if there was another such bike. Nope, not a chance. The envy was so think, i could cut it with a knife. Shortly after I left the shop, a very elderly Chinese gentleman stopped me as I was loading her onto my car bike rack. He asked me in mandarin about her.

• Vintage Hercules Bicycle

Where did I get that licence plate? How did I find an English bike, how much did I buy her for? He was shiocked that Audrey was 'new'.

Vintage Hercules Bicycle New-old-stock Sport Roadster from the 70s. Her Debut ketchup70 December 26th, 2008. Although a Raleigh product, Audrey is a thoroughbred Hercules. Her serial number is HC74 1351. Built in Handsworth, Birmingham, she was made in the same city that Ted Crane, the founder of Hercules. Rest in peace Christopher Bunag. We are remembering our brother, Christopher Bunag who was fatally struck on his bike during a solo weekday ride.

Over 30 years old and never ridden before! I suspect he must have yearned for such a bike in his youth. When I got home, I took her around the block several times to enjoy the sturmey shifter. Smoooth as butter. Then I felt guilty soiling her with road grime.

Gave her a gentle wipe down, and another two coats of wax so shes shiny and happy again. Gave her a thorough cleanup with lots of mild soap, water, and elbow grease. Then progressively rubbed about 30 layers of super premium Soft99 resin wax on just about every painted surface. Get this, the wax is meant for black or dark blue paint, says so on the tin - and she is just gleaming! Used Autosol metal polish for every steel or chrome part, and it works brilliantly, like it should. Finally ended the process with Meguires tyre polish, the one that lasts weeks on car tyres. Used a premium leather cleaner and cream product on her saddle.

Called 'Leather Master', t brought out all the grime, dirt and oil, and man, that saddle is quite a bit softer now. My butt will need to do the rest. Unfortunately, following the cleaning, bits of the natural grown colour now show through.

Think most such saddles were dyed from the natural brown, and mine is no exception. Plan to give her another few coats this week and next.

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In time for Christmas. She has to look like a million bucks for her first Xmas party! She was shipped into Singapore in a wooden crate of 25 CKD bicycles. The frame was wrapped in brown paper and tied with raffia string. At some point, the wooden crate was discarded, and she was placed in a more contemporary cardboard box and sealed. Three decades later, she was pulled out from the dank and musty store.

Vintage Hercules Bicycle

As the box was unsealed, Audrey saw light of day once again. A Sport touring model, she is black with gold pinstripes, a black Raleigh B66 leather saddle made by Brooks, chromed steel wheels made in France by Rigida. Her serial number is HC74 1351.

Sadly, Audrey's pedals were missing, and her tyres and inner tubes had long disintegrated. But these were quickly replaced by correct period Japanese rubber block pedals, Heng Shin tyres and inner tubes. Amazingly, her black leather saddle was covered with some oily film in a oily plastic bag that looked it age. I could make out Raleigh B66 embossed on each side. A Brooks saddle!

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I asked if he had an internal gear hub available. With a smile, the old gentleman produced a new old stock (NOS) 3-speed Sturmey Archer gear hub from his musky cupboard. Vray license server download keygen. The box was yellowed and fading, but the hub and accessories were in pristine condition, in the original plastic bag! This was duly added, along with another NOS item! An Elephant brand dynamo light, again in a mouldy old carboard box.

No Lucas, sorry, but never mind, I'll take that too please! Another accessory added was a chrome kickstand by Koba of Japan. That evening, I added a period bicycle licence plate I found in a rubbish heap many years ago.

The next day, I added a chrome Flying Pigeon rear rack I found in another, even more dingy, old shop, and an unbranded Chinese chrome bicycle bell I purchased from yet another. As a finishing touch, I added a period bicycle licence plate I found in a rubbish heap many years ago. Now the cleaning and polishing shall begin. The period bicycle licence plate.

No longer a legal requirement since the 1980s, these are very rarely seen on bicycles nowadays. Audrey is a vintage Hercules roadster. I purchased her on 11 December 2008. A good date, as  sounds somewhat like 'easy prosperity' in the Cantonese dialect. Audrey will be her name.

Its the first alphabet, and more importantly, its a very English name. Plus, I like it as I once knew a very attractive young lady by that name, many years ago when I was a young lad. I found her in an old pre-war shophouse, off a little street in Singapore.