1976 Hercules (!) 250 7 speed, CL

[chuck peterson]

How bout a big a$$ looking German thumper to get our mind off things..

https://hartford.craigslist.org/mcy/d/east-windsor-1976-hercules-speed-enduro/7125887493.html





I sure wish I had learned to ride in the dirt

[TOMB]

Chuck

Lonesome Stony Creek Road close enough?

TOMB

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

How bout a big a$$ looking German thumper to get our mind off things..

"Thumper"? It's a 2-stroke, not 4-stroke.

[chuck peterson]

Oops!

 

[steven c]

 Wow just up the road from me.Cool bike.

[Deno]

This should be able to be registered for street use. It has lights.

[mobiker]

That's a rare one. Did Hercules us their own engines or an engine supplier like Sachs?

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Sachs bought Hercules in 1963, so the engine is a Sachs unit.

[SLDMRossi]

Having been down the Hercules Sachs route, I can confirm...they're really interesting! But...the market "interest" is wafer thin, so you might be down with it for a while. But, the experience is well worth it...

Steven Rossi

[mobiker]

That should help with parts availability. Sachs were used in several different makes back in the day. Pretty good motors IIRC.

[acogoff]

    I even had a 293R radial finned head Sachs engine that I put in a arctic cat snowmobile in about 1973. It was about 10 mph faster than the 292 kawasaki it replaced. I remember paying $85 US for it brand new at a surplus place. That is about the time when the many odd ball snowmobile manufacturers were going belly up.