Bicycling

Wishful Shopping – Rene Herse Randonneuse

While I don’t need another bicycle I’ve been air shopping for Alex Singers and Rene Herse randonnee frames via ebay. Here’s a beautiful 1975 randonneuring bike from the Rene Herse workshop.  If you’re a pure road cyclist and you’ve never seen a Rene Herse, check out all the bike’s unique, rando specific features: custom front rack, integrated lighting system, polished mafac racer brakes, full metal fenders, maxicar hubs, etc.  In the event of a zombie apocalypse, a Rene Herse randonnee would make the perfect getaway rig. 

  

If you’re interested in reading a history of the Rene Herse workshop, check out this handsome new tome by Compass Press.

3 thoughts on “Wishful Shopping – Rene Herse Randonneuse”

  1. Didn’t you post up about a new Vanilla randonee bike not all that long ago!

    Talk about an embarrassment of riches. 😉

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