Re: [CR]Herse on eBay!...Moderator let thsi slip by.

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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:32:04 -0500
To: rocklube@adnc.com, Jerry & Liz Moos <moos@penn.com>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Herse on eBay!...Moderator let thsi slip by.
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Brian Baylis wrote:
>Jerry,
>
>Again I wasn't perfectly clear what I mean't by that. That bike was
>built for an American customer for use in America and spent it's entire
>life here. That bike has all kinds of stickers and whatnot on the
>fenders of places it had been. Also has an LAW sticker on the down tube,
>Not sure if that is the League of American Wheelmen or the Los Angeles
>Wheelmen, I think the former.

Check out the rear fender, though.

http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/pedalpushin g/reneherse06.JPG

If features a prominent FFCT (Fedération Française de Cycltourisme) sticker and another above it from Switzerland. The 18 smaller "coat of arms" stickers are from various regions in Europe. I'd bet it has more kilometers on it than miles.

I fervently hope whoever buys this bike doesn't attempt to "restore" it, this is a battle scarred veteran, owned by a _real_ cyclist. It simply oozes class and authenticity.

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