Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - soviet track frames! *droooool*

i want one!!! (http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/03bicycles/takhionVVV.html)

http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/03bicycles/takhion79TPmoskva.jpg

also, check out the track TT bikes!

god bless you bikeworks!!!

you don't see many russian bicycles. that guy who imports those sibex sports frames was trying to sell a track frame on ebay not to long ago because it got a ding while being shipped. i have never ridden one of the frames but people who race cyclocross seem to like them a lot. my old boss hated that guy who imports sibex and talked mad **** on him most of the time so i think any info i might have about them is biased.

i don't think these are made anymore...and i said soviet because all the ones listed on the page were manufactured before the collapse...i like that they're called "tachyon." :)

http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/03bicycles/takhionVVVV.html

woo... that's interesting.

wouldn't like to apple core myself on the headtube though.

fssb
sparky

eo: leftfield - open up

those bullhorns are crazy, I want some...

I think I'd kill myself on that bike. I have trouble enough with balance without having my nose below my nads...

You suck, would you please quit showing these things. I have no money, my credit is maxed, and all my bike hooks are full. I really, really don't need any motivation to start another project.

:) aww reverend...

i want one too. but alas, they are no longer made. and probably pretty hard to come by...and even if you or i did ever came face to face with one, i bet it'd either cost way too much, or the owner would never ever part with it.

i was just...admiring the craftsmanship...mostly because my vision of the soviet union was like, super impoverished and grey and people peeling potatoes all the time...big grey squares for buildings...things....snowy.....hammers....sickles....siberia.....stuff...

Those same 'dreary' soviet conditions led to the preservation of some pretty cool industrial skills. Their level of automation and quality tooling was quite far behind the rest of the industrialized world, especially at the end. This means that much of the welding that we do automatically, they did by hand. Even some of the metal forming (like airplane skins) was done by hand. Because they had crappy machinery, they learned to use their hands to make up for it. Some extremely talented welders and fabricators came out of the Soviet Union. In fact, one of the Shelby Cobra replica builders has their alluminum bodies hand beaten out of sheets of alluminum there. It's the only place in the world where they could still find craftsman with the metal shaping skills to produce them.
I bet you could set up a heck of a bike factory over there right now. Labor is cheap (except for the corruption) and you can still find very skilled ex-aircraft fabricators. Anybody on this board a venture capitalist?

Anybody on this board a venture capitalist?

I am!


I just,



lack the money part.



:D

who is your old boss?? why did he hate him?

wasn't there pictures of track bikes make for the soviet olympic team on here a while ago? with lots of hammer and sickle, and CCCP stuff all over. if memory serves me they were masi-built.

the paint job is similar to and old raleigh pro:

http://retroraleighs.com/catalogs/1976/pages/03-76-professional-track.html

wow, check out the crank arms in that picture.

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