Here are a couple pictures of some of the cool things I saw at the Monson bicycle swap. In this early morning blurry picture, there are 2 Raleigh Golden Arrows and 2 chrome Raleigh Sports.Bag full of empty cool boxes.As found Le Chemineau (more pictures to come)Rene Herse front rack-Rene Herse stem with bellModified high … Continue reading Monson 2012 bike swap
Rene Andre Porteur
Rene Andre is one of the lesser known French constructeurs but many Parisien cyclists rate him as one of the best. He was a builder in Paris, and used to braze for Cycles CNC. This bike has been restored and recently for sale on Ebay(I don't usually post other peoples auctions, but this bike is … Continue reading Rene Andre Porteur
Rene Herse Cranks
Jan Heine(of Compass Bicycle and Bicycle Quarterly)is introducing a reproduction Rene Herse crank. Well, maybe not a reproduction, it might be better to say he is putting them back into production. They can be purchased as either a single, double, or triple chain ring setup. Only one crank arm length, 171mm, and chainring sizes are … Continue reading Rene Herse Cranks
cool home made front derailleur
I ran across this front derailleur on Cyclops bike blog and I thought it was pretty exotic and I would like to have one on my bike. It is a take on the Goeland front derailleur(the chain link), the Alex Singer(wire, spoke cage), and Rene Herse(telescoping square).More information can be found through this search on … Continue reading cool home made front derailleur
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