-Ralph- wrote:They are not just a Chinese bike with a different badge on.
Herald bikes come in from China and are basically rebuilt by a small team of guys in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, who upgrade many of the components, before selling them on. Anything that they are not happy with the quality of they reject and send back. The only problems they've had so far was the finish of some of the forks, which were removed from the bikes and replaced with UK sourced items before the bikes were sold and the bad forks returned back to China.
The company is owned by a millionaire who just loves bikes and wanted to build retro bikes, runs it as a bit of a hobby, so getting it right is more important to him than profit, he doesn't need the money.
Lnkshr76 wrote:I work just round the corner from the distributor in Huntingdon but to view any I have to travel into Cambridge which can be a chore I've been eyeing up the 125 hope you get on with the bike
They also do custom builds using the chinese bike as a base, they are about twice the price, but they do look good.
Just separating the two posts so people can read it.
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