[CR]Re Soviet Takhion track bike

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

From: "Baron von Drais" <draisienne@hotmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:18:56 -0500
Subject: [CR]Re Soviet Takhion track bike

Hi all,

There is a bicycle with a handlebar/fork combo like that on display in t he transportation section at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto Canada. The Science Center's bike was donated by Canadian cyclist Jocelyn Lovell. I forget which discipline of track racing his was built for (or who built it ) but I do remember he had a chain on both sides and the gear ratio was dif ferent. There was some sort of automatic clutch mechanism in the hub that k icked out of one gear and into another as a certain rmp. A bike that's both fixed gear and not a single speed! If any one can find online links to pho tos I'd like to have another look at the bike please and thank you. It's on -topic as Jocelyn stopped riding in 1983 when he had an accident.

Cheers,
Peter Schwar
Montreal, Canada