Re: [CR]Faure bicycle...anybody know about this maker?

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 05:51:27 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Faure bicycle...anybody know about this maker?


Tom,

Faure was a French maker. The bike indeed is fully chromed, as was relatively common at the time. The "something else" is a speedometer. On the handlebars, it has matching bell and watch. All three are the same size and shape.

The story is that he was a watch maker. Only one of his bikes is known - the one you see on the web site. Looking at the bike, it is clear that it can't have been a project to make money. The amount of work involved is just too much. Every part of the bike is reworked to make it more aesthetically pleasing. When you know how much work goes into a Singer or Herse, this one must have taken several times as long! For a full feature on the bike, plus some Rebour drawings of another Faure (so there must have been at least 2!) check out Vol. 1, No. 2 of Vintage Bicycle Quarterly. Back issues are available, although some early issues are running low. -- Jan Heine, Seattle Editor/Publisher Vintage Bicycle Quarterly http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/

Well, I stumbled onto the most marvelous photo of a bicycle on Jan Heine's site. It is a chrome or stainless '52 Faure. http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/images/faure.jpg It may have the coolest integration of light to fender to something else (anybody know for sure just what it is?) that's round... several of us have speculated about it. Checking the archives, I find only the Faure Autocar, and it seems nothing like this. I have asked a couple of the most knowledgeable folks I know and the bike is a new one on them, too. Could Mr. Heine or some other knowledgeable soul, fill us in on this wonderful bike? One buddy says he thinks Faure may have been a
French watch maker.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi