Re: [CR] ebay outing: Rene Herse??

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:19:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <6050B2DB6C3543148A4CD134BD35E7E3@DELL>
Subject: Re: [CR] ebay outing: Rene Herse??


whats goin on with the seatpost. looks like there is a large gap in this photo...

http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac204/Karimbrl/Rene%20Herse%20Alex%20Singer%20Nuovo%20Record%20Bike/IMG_6163.jpg

jeff piwonka
austin, texas usa


--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Charles Andrews wrote:


> From: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] ebay outing: Rene Herse??

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 11:11 AM

\r?\n> Another optimist:

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\r?\n> http://ebay.com/<blah>

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\r?\n> I've seen a lot of attempts to raise the value of a

\r?\n> bicycle...but nothing quite like this.

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\r?\n> This did bring up another question though.  I know

\r?\n> that Herse made frames with an italian style now and then,

\r?\n> but did he ever finish off the stay ends in the italian

\r?\n> fashion?  Or did he always do it in the french way,

\r?\n> with the hollowed edge?

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\r?\n> I also wondered what the e-bay frame might be.  Be

\r?\n> nice to know what the threading was.  I could ask what

\r?\n> the bb marking is, but I'm not interested enough to do

\r?\n> so.  Seems nice enough.  Hardly worth the value of

\r?\n> a singer though.

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\r?\n> Charles Andrews

\r?\n> Los Angeles

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\r?\n> It is impossible to begin to learn that

\r?\n> which one thinks one already knows.

\r?\n> --Epictetus