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@Jonny69
Keep meaning to post up my René Herse updates here but I’m so far behind now I think I’ll just pick up from where I am at the moment. I stripped the bike down and amazingly it all came apart quite easily, bar one screw in the back of the mudguard. I bought a set of early Mafac cantis so I could have a kind-of matching rear set to put in place of the missing rear RH ones. I’ve yet to fit them but I measured up and I think they’ll fit.
The cranks are scrap, unfortunately. I could see the pedal NDS spindle was at the wrong angle and once I got it out I could see it was the crank that was bent, not the pedal spindle. I also found a couple of cracks in the crank arm and decided not to risk using them. 100% certain that they’ll break if I try to straighten them or ride on them, so since they’re so rare I’m going to stash them away and/or put them in a frame on display.
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