1963 Rene Herse
 

Most of my collection has comparable sales and I can come up with a fair market value. This bike (and one other) is a bit harder to pinpoint a price on. This is 100% NOT for sale, please don't PM me.

1963 Rene Herse, with 95% original parts from the same era, Huret, Stronglight, Philippe, Campy "No Record" hubs, ect. I added the racks and brass fenders.

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thanks!

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That’s a beautiful bicycle. I am always amazed at the level of detail on the RH frames.

Just a note, the right rear brake pad is installed backwards.

Worth keeping and riding.
Name your price when the time comes ;)

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thank you for posting

brake levers appear to have been altered to extend reach


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I'm surprised we haven't gotten more responses about this beautiful bike. Perhaps @Vonruden might have a finger on the pulse of Herse prices.
I'm also surprised at the number of fairly tall Herse and Singer bikes that show up from time to time. My size: Color me envious. (green I suppose)
Brent

Pretty sure I owned this one and sold on ebay cause it was a tad too small. If so, Looks much better then when I owned.

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Photo’s from my Instagram account back in March of 2019. Think thats when I sold her.

If you bought it in the last 5 years, the value might have changed a little, but what you paid for it, is probably about what it's worth.

Yes, this is your old bike, thank you for selling it. I was looking for a RH for awhile and honestly could be on a taller one, they just don't come up for sale very often.

I did add a few things and clean it a bit, I really like how original it was.

You did really well with it. If it was larger, I would never have sold it. As it sits, I would say $4 - 5K range. you just can’t find em to often in larger sizes. If it were mine, I would get the reproduction Herse Stem and cranks.

thank you!
I've been toying with that idea but I like the original parts of the era and repro part can always be bought later on. I just need to get some RH tires.

Very Nice bike.
Schrader valves?1?
I would work to improve the fender line, not up to RH standard.

Very nice bike. I know nothing about these bikes other than that. I like the brass fenders with the color of the frame. I have just finished my Motobecane in a burnt metallic orange/red and am ordering hammered copper(plated) fenders for it for the same type of look. It will be my only French touring bike other than my daughter’s bike that is in my fleet.

Sounds like a good choice on the fenders. Please post some photos when you get them installed. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to see it!

If the front rack is way too high, it should be way lower; and if it were way lower, it would crush the mudguard. Putting aside "way", how is it too high? It looks good to me.

As for the rear rack, it looks to me as if the only thing preventing it from starting to rotate is the resistance offered by the mudguard to a bolt. I hope I'm wrong. (I probably am.)

M A V , the bike looks just right for 150+ km rides. How does it feel?

what a beuty!

I love this.

By "wrong", did you perhaps just mean "not as originally built/intended"?

(There are vanishingly few Herse bikes hereabouts for me to ogle. Perhaps there's one Herse bike on the road for every fifty Cherubim bikes, and one Cherubim bike for every fifty Specialized bikes. And while I know of the recent coffee-table book about Herse bikes, my bookshelves are already groaning.)

If indeed a set-up is not as originally built/intended, well, that's not necessarily a bad thing if the bike is for riding rather than display. I imagine that the (non-Herse!) frame I'm riding these days would originally have been fitted with Sturmey-Archer or Benelux Cyclo gearing: I might consider switching to either if it appeared under a Christmas tree, but the bike and I are happy with Suntour gearing that's more than a decade younger.

Sorry to bring up an old thread. I just wanted to correct this since it has some incorrect information. Federal models where build with lower quality straight gauge tubes. This one is reynolds. Its lacks the rene herse extras just because the original owner did not want them. I think its quite common with the rene herse race bikes that where ment as road bikes. The made in france just means that the bike was made for some one abroad from France and don’t have anything to do with the bike being federal model.

I have similar Rene Herse and I contacted Rene Herse and got these infos from there.

all the best
Toni

No apology necessary in my opinion. As I always point out, I'd have had no idea this thread even existed had you not contributed to it. And you added some good info. Win/win!