Re: [CR] pink Ren=?ISO-8859-1?B?6SA=?=Herse vs. Masi Prestige

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:19:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR] pink Ren=?ISO-8859-1?B?6SA=?=Herse vs. Masi Prestige
From: "Michael Schmidt" <mdschmidt@patmedia.net>
To: <gholl@optonline.net>, The Maaslands <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
Thread-Topic: [CR] pink Ren=?ISO-8859-1?B?6SA=?=Herse vs. Masi Prestige
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In-Reply-To: <e38ee858ddd7.46ef03e3@optonline.net>
cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

What's up Doc? That pink Herse was made by Jean Dubois. Jean is Lyli Herse's significant other and an excellent builder in his own right. He was building Herse bikes, when Rene was still around. My understanding is that toward the last few years of Rene Herse's life, the quality of Rene's work was not as good as Jean's work.

Color of the Herse in my opinion had something to do with the final price. Some guys would not want to ride a hot pink bike.

On 9/17/07 6:46 PM, "gholl@optonline.net" <gholl@optonline.net> wrote:
> feel that the answer to this well posed question is seen not only in t
> he final price, the Masi valued at $1150 (32%) more (and the He
> rse sold only at the reserve), but, more obviously, in the number
> of bidders, i.e. 26 to 1.
>
> Such is the ratio of interest in Masi vs. Herse.
> Certainly the fact that the Masi was built by Alberto Masi and the Herse
> was a posthumous production by another hand must had some influence in
> the outcome. It certainly influenced me--not to bid on the Herse.
> George
> George Hollenberg MD
> Westport, CT, USA

Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ
USA