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Old 02-09-07 | 10:22 AM
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Cool looking head badge.......I've spent quite a bit of time in Russia (post-Soviet era), I saw bikes of that style in large numbers out in the country, where folks along the highway would sell their goods (the "goods" were often fish in the area I was in). Almost invariably, you'd see a bike similar to that one parked off to the side, awaiting the trip home along a high speed highway with little or no shoulder. And in the larger cities, it takes an even braver soul to travel by bicycle in Russia, although quite a lot do. In one city I was in, because of the flat-as-a-pancake terrain, I remember thinking it would be great to travel by bike there. But after experiencing the traffic on foot, I thought, "Who am I kidding? If I rode a bike here I'd be killed within minutes."

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