Would greatly like to see a scan of that catalog! Paul Genaro over trexlertown pa
> As one of the lists Herse fans, I thought I'd
\r?\n> mention that Herse in perhaps
\r?\n> his first catalog (late 40's?) shows a ladies
\r?\n> bicycle with a pretty fancy
\r?\n> motor built onto it. As I understand it, motorizing
\r?\n> even a top-tier French
\r?\n> touring type bike was in vogue at a certain time in
\r?\n> the late 40's or
\r?\n> perhaps 50's. If I recall a conversation I had with
\r?\n> a French bicycle
\r?\n> expert, the famous builder Daudon (I could be
\r?\n> mistaken on the name of the
\r?\n> builder here) basically phased out most regular
\r?\n> bicycle building and took
\r?\n> up exotic work on these strange bicycle/motorized
\r?\n> contraptions.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> As for me, the thought of imposing the smells of a 2
\r?\n> stroke engine and the
\r?\n> noise on an otherwise tranquil spring morning makes
\r?\n> no sense. Then again,
\r?\n> for many folks the idea that someone would enjoy a
\r?\n> brisk morning climb up a
\r?\n> 2,000 foot mountain is equally silly. Mike
\r?\n> "starring at the mountains in
\r?\n> Boulder" Kone