Marcel Kint
 

Friends, new bike in da house: an M. Kint. It's a beautiful light-blue bike and at the moment I'm exploring the parts. Marcel Kint was a famous Belgian who won the world championship in 1938 (in The Netherlands by the way). He stayed champion until after WWII, because during the war no WC were held. After his professional career he started building bikes with the best parts available. The company still exists. So, it's a Kint. What I have now is this list:

- Frame: steel, size 58, year built: still unknown
- Front derailleur: Huret 700
- Rear derailleur: Huret Eco 2490
- Freewheel: still unknown
- Crankset: Hermesse Grand Luxe (Belgian)
- Pedals: MKS
- Gearing: 2 x 5
- Shifters: Huret
- Tires: Michelin
- Rims: Antoine
- Hubs: Maillard Normandy Sport ‘high flange’ with Huret wingnuts
- Brakes: Weinmann 610 Vainqueur 999
- Brake handles: Weinmann AG Vainqueur 999
- Saddle: San Marco
- Handlebar: Titan Luxe ‘Maas, Steenbergen, Kint, Schotte’
- Headbadge: ‘M. Kint – 1938 – wereldkampioen’ (worldchampion)

Does anyone have more info on:
- the 'Antoine' rims
- the 'Hermesse' cranks?

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f0162dcb8b.jpg
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...8312ba6ecc.jpg
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1649ca9b99.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...4ab585a2e3.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...23a9406265.jpg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1585dba2d0.jpg

Nice find! Late 50s or early 60s bike, do you think?



Here's some info on your Titan bars; may be the original "Maes" bend model:
https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...andlebars.html


velobase.com has some entries for Hermesse cranks; Belgian apparently.

Don't know the year yet. Working on it. :)

Crank and rim close-up.https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...fa1ee9ff88.jpg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...aabc42a994.jpg

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Thanks for commencing a textile on this machine Lucas! :thumb:

Regarding Hermesse chainsets.

Received some information from our Munny in connection with another machine which exhibits them -

full name: Hermesse Freres (products sometimes marked with an HF digraph)

location: Bressoux Belgique (near Liege)

stated productive capacity as of 1949: 30,000 sets per month

one model offered was termed "Atomic"

firm associated with a manufacturer called Hollebecq

[have not as yet learned years of operation]

ALL CREDIT TO MUNNY - WITH THANKS! :)

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Wow, thanks! This forum rocks. Again. It's so neat to discover more and more about bikes and their histories... Much appreciated!

One dating help is the bar and stem combo. Note that the writing on these faces forward (towards the cameras?), whereas on the older version the writing faced the rider. Not sure when they changed that, but could be ~1970.

This is one I found on a 1968 bike:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ff612b1d0c.jpg

Nice bike, BTW. :thumb:

Found an old convocation online to the general assembly of the Hermesse freres firm. Year: 1945. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...b82ad774f1.jpg

Thanks! I fell in love instantly. I guess the bike is from 1969/1970. Still figuring out. :)

And the Antoine rims turn out to be from Doornik, Belgium. This firma produced other bikeparts too. They don't exist any more.

That would fit nicely. You might find an actual date code on the bars; I seem to remember they had one. I would check, but mine are all wrapped and mounted. Too nice to keep lying around. :)

LOL. I'll keep you guys posted.

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More fine detective work on your part!

This late thirties Cycles Cristod of Belgium also fitted with jantes Antoine.

http://i65.tinypic.com/2djcpkj.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/14cvb6h.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/ftnhw4.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/2zh1jxu.jpg

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What a beauty!

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:love:

couple more pinups...

http://i68.tinypic.com/2zsmq7d.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/2vmvf3b.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/whazd5.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/2qnbjaf.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/16c56qb.jpg

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Marcel Kint (20 September 1914, in Zwevegem – 23 March 2002, in Kortrijk) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won 31 races between 1935 and 1951. His finest year was 1938 when he won the World Cycling Championship, three stages of the Tour de France and the season-long competition equivalent to today's UCI ProTour.

more here:
https://alchetron.com/Marcel-Kint

Super cool bike, even if it wasn't super high end in it's day. For some quirky reason, I ogle over the vintage stuff bearing the names of exracers, the more obscure the better. Plus, I dig the quirkiness inherent in the pre-80's stuff, with all the country specific sizing and threads. It just makes them more of a challenge (and thus a greater accomplishment, when victorious) to get and keep them rolling.

​​​​​​​with St Christopher! :)

Absolutely. And that is why I am so happy with this bike. It is special, because of the history, the colour, the grace, the beautiful simplicity, the... Well. You get the point. :)

Work in progress... Awaiting new cabling and more detailing.https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...04096a2e3f.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...a71f70a585.jpg

Pretty bike! How's it ride?

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Lucas wrote -

"Work in progress... Awaiting new cabling and more detailing."

Just ask non-fixie to send over Felix and Fritz - they are most enthusiastic with respect to recabling! :D

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Keeping it authentic as possible, as in keeping the cottered steel crank and suicide butterflies... that's awesome, in my thinking.

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http://i68.tinypic.com/b9hdzo.jpg
Fleche Wallone
http://i66.tinypic.com/rtjg53.jpg

TdF MCMXXXVI -
http://i65.tinypic.com/aw7ojp.jpg

wartime Fleche Wallone
http://i63.tinypic.com/b4jeo9.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/1fbez4.jpg

https://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/Vintage...0AAOSwTFhbD757

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Don't know yet! But I'll tell as soon as...