René Herse, the Bikes, the Builder, the Riders" 2012 Page 136 – 145 (Coloured, H/Q)
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Rene Herse® is a registered trademark of Rene Herse Cycles This file ist not intended for printing. Here you will find the aggregated texts otherwise accompanying the scans on Flickr. Direct jumps to the catalogues in this file: 1948 1952 1960 1971 1979 01 René Herse Catalogues Collection General Info: In this documentation you will find all the information I have collected over the last years regarding this topic. It has scans of 107 catalogue pages (91 with Rebour drawings), 6 cover scans as well as scans of some adverts, letters and the order sheet, accompanied by lots of texts consisting of French transcriptions, English translations and further informations, especially dating of the catalogues. As I don't have (and don't want to have) a personal homepage or blog, I thought Flickr is a good place to share, especially because it keeps the uploaded image files in its original format and quality. That's a good thing if you've spent countless hours to produce good files. Hopefully Flickr will keep its services for many years to come. René Herse catalogues were published in 1948, 1952, 1960 (with extra sheets 1962 and new cover 1964), 1971 and in 1979. The first two were small booklets, the others were loose–leaf type, sheets printed on both sides, wrapped in an envelope. To my knowledge these should be all catalogues ever published by René Herse. If you own or know a catalogue with (perhaps slightly) different content than in my scans, I'd be very grateful if you'd let me know. (The loose–leaf type catalogues often have different content than that in my scans. Frequently they are not complete, in the 1970s sometimes sheets from the 1960s are enclosed.) Jan Heine is the owner of all "René Herse" rights. The scans are shown here with his friendly permission. I transcribed the French text of the catalogues, translated it to English (with friendly help of DeepL.com translator, neither English nor French is my native language) and added both under each scan. You could copy and paste the French texts into a translation machine of your choice to a different language you prefer. Catalogue specs: 1948: 16 pages, 210 mm x 129 mm 1952: 21 pages, 212 mm x 135 mm 1960: 24 pages (12 sheets), 210 mm x 130 mm 1962: 4 pages (2 additional sheets), 210 mm x 130 mm 1964: 28 pages (14 sheets), 210 mm x 130 mm (new cover only) 1971: 24 pages (12 sheets), 206-212 mm x 135 mm 1979: 18 pages (9 sheets), mm x mm Further information can be found under the "Cover" scans for each catalogue. For information when which catalogue model appeared or disappeared or was renamed please refer to the following model overview. René Herse catalogue reprints on paper: Reprints of the 1948 catalogue can be found in Jan Heine's Vintage Bicycle Quarterly 10 (Volume 3 No. 2), Winter 2004 page 13 – 17 (models only, b/w) as well as in Jan Heine's book "René Herse, The Bikes, The Builder, The Riders" 2012 page 136 – 145 (coloured, h/q). Heine's remarks on this catalogue are quoted here with "VBQ 10" and "Herse Book". Both, Bicycle Quarterly magazine and Herse book, are highly recommended! The 1952, 1964, 1971 and 1979 catalogues were reprinted in Japanese "New Cycling" magazine, René Herse Special Feature, 09/2001, Vol. 39 No. 450 page 140ff (b/w only, quality a little mediocre compared to Heine's Herse book). The 1952 and 1971 catalogues were also reprinted in Japanese book イラストによるスポーツ車と部品の変遷 ("Transition of sports cars and parts by illustration") (AKA "Le monde de Daniel Rebour") Vol. I (1971) and Vol. II (1952), Japanese texts, quality a little more mediocre. Reminder: When looking at the bicycle models always keep in mind that "Herse did not really offer specific bicycle models, but made the bikes to the customer's specification" (Heine). Many of the bicycles shown in these catalogues where special built show–bicycles, often sold after the shows. The catalogue models just served as inspiration or examples of what was available/possible. Some words about the scans: Scans were done in 600 dpi and uploaded to Flickr in lossless .png format. The small drawings in the upper corners needed totally different scanner settings and reworking than the main drawings to get best results, so they were scanned (in 1200 dpi) and reworked separately (also downsized) and joined to the main scans afterwards. I retouched background–irregularities. That was the case with all white and blue backgrounds but especially with the 1952 catalogue, where front and back sides of most pages somewhat interchanged their printing ink through the paper (mostly the texts on the blue background and the small blue drawings but not so much the main drawings). The reworking required a uniform blue background for the texts, which makes the scans looking somewhat artificial and may not match the colour of the original properly (which wasn't captured by the scanner anyway, at least not with scanner settings chosen to provide best results with the main drawings). But I like the look and as a side effect it decreases the file size by about 30% to 40%. Altogether it was worth the effort of sometimes more than two hours per scan. I'm happy with the results now. The drawings itself were not touched (!), neither the main nor the small drawings. (Except from contrast, brightness and other general colour settings). Every pixel is exactly where it should be now. : – ) Textfile: Before uploading the scans I had stored the texts and translations in a text file anyway. As Google–bots visit single Flickr uploads only rarely (if ever) and the Flickr search itself doesn't really work well at all, I thought a searchable file with direct weblinks to the scans would be helpful, when looking for specific content or reading the text in one go. I hope the links will work for a long time. That is what you find under this link: https://www.rennrad-news.de/forum/threads/der-rebour- thread.147478/post-4633286 Note: That file ist not (!) intended for printing. Font type and size are chosen for monitor reading. 02 René Herse Catalogues Model overview Some of the drawings of bicycle models and components were used in more than one catalogue. Furthermore many drawings were published at other places, especially in Rebour's books from 1949, 1962 and 1975 and in the French magazines "Le Cycle" and "Le Cycliste", also in the two newer books with reprints of Rebour drawings, the Japanese "Data Book" and Rob van der Plas' and Frank Berto's Rebour book. If you really like Rebour's drawings of René Herse bicycles, you should get van der Plas' and Berto's Rebour book. It has no catalogue reprint but many many beautiful drawings of Herse bicycles not shown in the catalogues, mainly randonneuses and tandems of successful drivers on "Poly" and PBP events. If anybody has time and leisure to find out which drawings appeared more than one time in the catalogues (possibly with minor modifications) and/or appeared at other places, please do so and furnish me with the details. I will add the information here. Or simply add the information as a comment under the scans. 03 Dating of the first Catalogue by advertisements. "Le Cycliste" Dec. 1947: "L'artisan R. Herse présente ses bons voeux à tous ses amis et les incite à lui demander dès maintenant son album illustré 1948." "The artisan R. Herse sends his best wishes to all his friends and invites them to ask him for his 1948 illustrated album from now on." "Le Cycliste" Jan. 1948: "Saison d‘hiver, saison de préparation. L'artisan R. Herse peut vous étudier la machine dont vous rêvez. Dès maintenant démandez–lui son catalogue illustré 1948." "Winter season, preparation season. The artisan R. Herse can design the machine of your dreams. From now on, ask him for his illustrated 1948 catalogue." 04 Dating of the second Catalogue by its content. The appearance and disappearance of René Herse motorized bicycle models, introduction of the "Federal" model. Appearance: a) May 6th, 1951, Poly de Chanteloup, Salon de plein air "Le Cycle", May 26th, 1951, No. 13 page 21 "La Technique à la Poly", author Daniel Rebour "Nous avons remarqué, [… ,] en fait de surprise, un superbe tandem motorisé avec MOSQUITO, résultat d'une commande impérative, et non l'indication d'une Politique future... Mais qui sait ?" "We have noticed,[…,] in fact of surprise, a superb motorized tandem with MOSQUITO, the result of an imperative order, and not the indication of a future Policy.... But who knows?" b) Oct. 4th to 14th, 1951, Salon de l'automobile, du cycle et du motocycle "Le Cycle", Oct. 13th, 1951, No. 23 page 21 "A travers les stands du salon", author Daniel Rebour "Pour la première fois, HERSE expose deux "motorisés", un vélo mixte et un tandem, tous deux avec le MOSQUITO, réservoir plat, dans la triangulation, ne gênant pas le pédalage, et contenant 2 litres 300 et litres 800 de carburant." "For the first time, HERSE is exhibiting two "motorized" bicycles, a mixte bicycle and a tandem, both with the MOSQUITO, a flat tank, located in the triangulation, which does not interfere with pedalling, and contains 2 litres 300 and 800 litres of fuel." c) Oct. 31st to Nov. 19th, 1951, Salon du tourisme et de l'industrie hôtelière "Le Cycle", Nov. 10th, 1951, No. 25 page 24 "Le cyclisme au Salon du Tourisme", author L. Rollet "CYCLOCAMPING, telle est l'idée maîtresse qui évoque cette présentation.