1930s Schulz

one-eyed_jim

Old School Grand Master
A bit of an ugly duckling perhaps, but check out all the wonderful little details - the front brake milled from rod, hand brazed, and chromed; the indexed gear lever; the custom 40t freewheel; the hand riveted sheet-aluminium rims; the pump in its secret compartment...

http://www.reneherse.com/Schultz.html
 
if you can , visit the cycle museum in Saint Etienne . they have great examples of weird bikes .
 
cchris2lou":13f1esnu said:
if you can , visit the cycle museum in Saint Etienne . they have great examples of weird bikes .
The Musée d'Art et d'Industrie? I've never been to Saint-Étienne, but I'll be sure to drop in if I ever do.

My local museum here in Paris, the Arts et Métiers has a small collection of evolutionary dead ends - shaft drives and treadle drives. The museum's well worth a visit, but not for its bike collection. It would be good to see a collection that had a better slice of the main stream, as well as the eddies and tributaries.

The bike museum in Cormatin (Saone et Loire) was good for an hour or two's visit, but again it tended toward the weirder end of wonderful. It's shut now, and the bikes are in storage.

http://museeduvelo.free.fr/

It's the Musée du Poilu now:

http://www.museedupoilu.fr/
 
That's superb. Rene Herse made some amazing bikes mostly aimed at the 'Cyclo-Touriste' market.

I particularly like the 'early V-Brakes'. Very neat.
 
It must be that the marquee name got franchised but it's amazing that there is still a Rene Herse Bike Company and stores around.

I really don't know what the story is though. http://www.renehersebicycles.com/ , http://www.renehersebicycles.com/ReneHerseHome.htm

On ebay USA , I don['t know what to think, they'll have the wheel caps to a Rene Herse bike (like the wheel camps for a Raleigh (R) or Carlont (C)) and they cost the world. I've seen them take obscure parts for a Rene Herse and it costs a King's ransom.
 
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