Originally Posted by
John E
This is cool -- great thread. Previously I had seen only the Sputnik bikes. Its fun to see the mix of Russian/Cyrillic and English/Roman text on the various components and frames.
Seeing the Russian derailleurs reminds me a bit of Capo's (Austria) brief foray into derailleurs, which looked like crude copies of the Simplex of the day.
Im pretty sure Harkov have made similar copies of these types of derailleurs, seen a rear one, there are pictures of the front one on the web.