Rene Herse Cycles

Is there a Strava KOM from the MADE Show to the train Station? So much fun meeting up with old friends and making new ones that I almost missed my train back to Seattle.

Why’s the bike so dusty? Rode down with beccabook via Loowit (Mount St. Helens), Ape Canyon and Bridge of the Gods. What a fun weekend!

Heading to MADE with beccabook. Decided to go from Seattle to Portland via Windy Ridge on Mt. St. Helens and Ape Canyon. Chance of rain in the forecast, so the Oregon Outback bike is wearing fenders.

Now also for 32-inch tires: Rene Herse TPU tubes. Four wheel sizes, five valves, widths from 20 to 68 mm—we’ve got you covered!

Faster and lighter than tubeless or butyl. All-metal valves avoid mysterious leaks. Set up your tires with TPU tubes or use them as spares in case your tubeless setup fails.

We don’t use AI. Not in our writing. Not in our photos. Not in our product development. And not in our customer service. We aren’t against AI, we just don’t find it useful.

We use technology where it makes sense, but we never forget our goal: to create memorable experiences. AI would steer us toward the middle-of-the-road, instead of helping us create things that are genuinely new and exciting.

Full story in the RH Journal (link in our bio).

The smoke from the fires cleared late last night. Time to head out for a quick spin.

Our thoughts are with all who are affected by the fires, and to the firefighters working tirelessly to keep everyone safe and limit the damage.

New test bike in the house. First ride already made it clear: We‘ll have a lot if fun together!

And: Who said all carbon bikes are alike? How about round tubes and curved forks?

New bike in the house! Our friends from opencycle sent their new U.P.PER 2.0, custom-painted in RH colors. Thank you! Built it up with the new Campagnolo World Super Record X group. First ride was promising: personal best for the year on the local climb. (OK, by 1 second, but still…) Looking forward to a long friendship, both with this bike and its creators.

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The antithesis of a Tour de France bike? Jan’s Rene Herse for the Oregon Cascades Volcanic Arc 400 features analog shifting instead of electronic derailleurs. Rim brakes instead of discs. A steel frame with round tubes instead of wind-tunnel-shaped carbon. And then there’s the wheel size: At a time when the industry is pushing ‚bigger is better,‘ Jan unapologetically runs 26“ wheels.

A nostalgic choice? Not at all. It’s simply an alternative approach to building the fastest bike for ultra-long, unsupported, mixed-surface rides. Whether it’s setting FKTs (Fastest Known Times) on bike packing routes or competing in Unbound XL, the bike has shown that thinking outside the box can work really well.

Today in the RH Journal, Jan explains the thinking behind this unconventional bike—and how it performed on the (gravel) road. (Link in bio.)

Sponsoring the Tour de France is expensive, so expensive that no bike tire maker can afford it. What’s advertised along the course and on the jerseys are in fact car tires!

Small makers can’t afford to compete (and don’t want to, either). You’ll see Rene Herse tires on the podium when gravel racers enter road races and run their favorite tires, like Lauren De Crescenzo when she won the Tour of the Gila a few years back on 28 mm Rene Herse Chinook Pass Extralights. Full story in the RH Journal (link in our bio).

📷 1 Jered Gruber; 2 Volvo Trucks; 3 CINCH Cycling

Bike is dirty, rider is tired, mission accomplished! The new FKT for the Oregon Cascades Volcanic Arc 400 is 41:13 hours—for 419 miles and 31,500
ft of climbing—more than 8 hours off the old time.

The best part? Meeting friends in Portland. From the reader who came out in the middle of the night (with a picnic!) to my friend Jordan who I‘d missed last time: I love solo rides because they make me appreciate this wonderful community all the more.

Story coming soon in the RH Journal.