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Everything Ebykr holds on Rene Herse: one article and three documents in the archive.
The one article on Rene Herse so far.
The build sheet of a 1951 Rene Herse Concours randonneur: Reynolds 531, Herse cantilevers and triple, Le Cyclo gears, Maxi-Car hubs and Lefol fenders.
Where Rene Herse is named outside its own pages: 14 articles, two build sheets and nine archive documents from three other makers and three publications.
The articles that name Rene Herse most often first.
…field of mid-20th century Parisian constructeurs, familiar names like Alex Singer and René Herse usually consume the largest share of the conversation. Their machines have come to represent some of the most enduring…
…each essential part of the bicycle and drawings of the details made by Bourdel, Daudon, Herse, Hugonnier-Routens and Singer. Quite the compendium, one would have to say. He came back to the frame again and again.
…that lifts its rider above the mundane and ties him into the world and its fellows. René Herse, Jo Routens and Alex Singer came to distinguish themselves as among the greatest masters of this craft -- that of…
…as an ajusteur-monteur, a fitter-assembler, at the Levallois workshop of the legendary René Herse. Herse, one of the great artisan constructeurs, had been working with duralumin since around 1930, drawing on…
…The only other name regularly considered alongside his more aged contemporaries, Rene Herse and Alex Singer, Routens was distinct from these seminal influences in his unwavering commitment to the everyday…
…the Legacy · (Kogswell claims the inspiration for its porteur model came more from a Rene Herse design; Herse is similarly revered, but ran a factory-like organization, with craftsmen working under him to build the…
…cyclotouring and cyclosportif bicycles in cycling history, distinct from contemporaries René Herse and Alex Singer for his unwavering commitment to the everyday cyclist. Beginning at the Brevet de Randonneur Alpin in…
…competitions, naming the Poly de Chanteloup and the Poly Lyonnaise, with R. Herse first among constructeurs at both and L. Herse first in the ladies' class at Lyon. It sold MAXI hubs with or without…
…and Audax Club Parisien cyclist, becomes a fitter-assembler (ajusteur-monteur) at René Herse's Levallois workshop, learning to work duralumin. 1943 · Patent Filed · Navet files the patent for TA's…
…manufacturing companies are named after their founder or first builder: Alex Singer, René Herse, Bridgestone (after Mr. Ishibashi, "Stone Bridge" in Japanese), Schwinn and of course the modern boutique builders…
…corner of cycling has a few obvious (and not-so-obvious) examples of these things: Rene Herse vs. Jo Routens vs. Alex Singer craftsmanship, Maxi-Car's (and Harden's) distinctive hubs, Coventry and Saint-Étienne…
…them even more special. Unlike some other French cyclo-artisans of his era -- Singer, Herse, Goeland, et al -- Caminade is relatively unknown today; but he must have been a familiar name to cyclists during his…
…his reputation in the shadow of better-known Parisian constructeurs like Alex Singer and René Herse, operating first from 13 Boulevard Pasteur in the 15th Arrondissement and later, under the corporate banner of…
…of French cycling is often synonymous with the legendary workshops of Alex Singer and René Herse, André Maury occupies a unique space as one of the undercelebrated, almost unknown masters of technical integration.
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