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Soviet Track Frame
This is kind of dear to my heart, because I was born in the USSR, so I figured this thing is strange enough to show off here. 1978 Soviet track frame, looks to be in pretty decent shape, though maybe with a missing head badge. Never seen anything quite like it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Track-frame-RECO...ayphotohosting http://foto.mail.ru/mail/fausto_copp...ameREKORD57cm/ |
Record, eh?
Looks sweet!! |
Where from the USSR are you from?
Cool frame. Love the paint job. If it is a USSR frame does that mean it was made by the state? I've seen pictures of like hundreds of all the same bike all lined up from the USSR. Zdrasvotyet kak dela? ^^ My poor attempt at conversational russian. I lived with a russian gal for almost two years and the only russian I know is the kind of stuff you say in the bedroom... |
get it!
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i want to like these frames but everything i see from eastern europe seems to be pretty shoddy in terms of materials & workmanship
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i was born in USSR too, tovarish.
Here is another XB3 bike, i love that head badge: http://www.bikecult.com/works/archiv...kordTKJSrs.JPG http://www.bikecult.com/works/archiv...kordTKJSbg.JPG |
I don't know why but something about those bikes says heavy about them
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NitroPye:
I lived in Moscow until '93 when my parents took me to the states at the age of 11. Vse horosho, spasibo. dewthedew: I would, but both of them are too big for me. National pride doesn't extend to ill-fitting bikes :) Otherwise the frames look like they're in good shape for being 30 years old, and i dig the head tube lugwork, so I might've picked one up for novelty's value. I know that a lot of Soviet consumer goods from that era are totally indestructable, so that's a plus. |
Originally Posted by Gyeswho
(Post 5679313)
I don't know why but something about those bikes says heavy about them
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kind of sexy, especially if it included that headbadge.
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just a pic
A lot of soviet sexies on this site. click USSR http://www.bikecult.com/works/archiv...79TPmoskva.jpg http://www.bikecult.com/works/archiv...ionTTRbars.jpg http://www.bikecult.com/works/archiv...yon3aerott.jpg |
http://www.bikecult.com/works/archiv...yon3aerott.jpg
DO NOT LIKE. (and im no hater.) |
did the irish make track bikes?
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Youre so going to Siberia you pig!
:) |
Originally Posted by dewthedew
(Post 5679506)
did the irish make track bikes?
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that looks worse than those Sparton things
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in soviet russia frame lugs you
or something |
Not surprisingly the Soviet track team mostly used frames from Western Europe. Rossin was a favorite, a buddy of picked up a De Rossa that was a Soviet team bike, and I managed to find a retired Colnago.
The frame in the OP was made in Ukraine, and in general thought of to be a total POS. My local wrench is a former Soviet track team mechanic, and when I asked him about frames from the Kharkov factory all he had to say was that they often left a little trail of parts behind them...... |
"Under repair was not." - Did yoda post that frame on ebay?
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Originally Posted by trace215
(Post 5679638)
"Under repair was not." - Did yoda post that frame on ebay?
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Originally Posted by Ziemas
(Post 5679649)
No, someone who's not a native English speaker did. :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by deathhare
(Post 5679733)
Yoda isn't a native English speaker so....:rolleyes:
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That bike just cemented my belief that Russian is the sweetest looking language spoken today.
PS those are some pretty out there bars on those two bikes up there. I've never seen that. |
Nothing fancy, completely utilitarian, I love the Soviet mindset!
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Here's a crappy picture of my winter-beater for you to ridicule.
But why I posted it here is because it's a XB3 from the same Kharkov factory in Urkaine, as mentioned above. I salvaged the bike from a garbage dumpster. It was complete even with the original tube tires (saying 'CCCP' on 'em) still on it and so on. I fixed the bike on no-budget, suicide hub etc. and actually use it to commute to work now that it's winter up here. It looks like crap, yeah, I know. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2087/...d303fc4c94.jpg |
Originally Posted by jussik
(Post 5679851)
Here's a crappy picture of my winter-beater for you to ridicule.
But why I posted it here is because it's a X3B from the same Kharkov factory in Urkaine, as mentioned above. I salvaged the bike from a garbage dumpster. It was complete even with the original tube tires (saying 'CCCP' on 'em) still on it and so on. I fixed the bike on no-budget, suicide hub etc. and actually use it to commute to work now that it's winter up here. It looks like crap, yeah, I know. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2087/...d303fc4c94.jpg |
Thanks, but let's say that if you saw it in nature you would understand what I mean.
Anyhow, the lugged steel frame and the old school leather seat are cool while all other components were/are simply POS. Still, I did keep lot of them as I didn't want to spend any money on building up a beater bike that was free for me in the first place. |
Originally Posted by TehK
(Post 5679754)
Nothing fancy, completely utilitarian, I love the Soviet mindset!
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^^ +1
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