Recent content by SynchroSimon

Re: Re: Thank you for your comments. Your Aston Club looks fantastic. Shame it was too small for you though.

Re: Re: Thanks for the info on the wheel sizes. The old spokes did cross 4 times but it appears that my LBS gave me some duff advice, not to mention the fact that they could have told me that I had the wrong-size rims :x As for the gears - it is a 3-speed. My dad told me it always slipped...

That's a very nice machine you have there. I'm a little jealous of the white mudguards you have as they seem the right spec for what i wanted for mine (the original ones had long-since gone and dad had replaced them with a set of aluminium ones that had more holes in them than a piece of Swiss...

Hi everyone, New to the forum because I have just completed restoring my dad’s 1955 Hercules Aston Club. The bike was in a really sorry state; years of not being ridden and left in a garage. I think there was more rust on it than good bodywork/chrome etc. Anyway, I collected the bike over...