Re: [CR] 70s CCCP Pekopd !

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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:28:44 -0500
From: "Dmitry Yaitskov" <dima@rogers.com>
To: Bob Hillery <rhillery@hawksi.org>
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Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] 70s CCCP Pekopd !


Hi,

Monday, November 9, 2009, 8:09:53 PM, Bob Hillery wrote:
> Comrades!
> Item # 180427955886
> interesting track bike (that's "record") made in USSR.
> seems my day for finding the odd ones.

Cool :)

In case anybody's wondering, the letters "XB3" on the headbadge mean "Kharkovsky Velosipedny Zavod" - Kharkov Bicycle Factory (Kharkov is a city in East Ukraine). All Soviet bikes of any merit were made there, I think. (I had one myself, a much worse/cheaper model than the one on eBay.)

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Cheers,
Dmitry Yaitskov,
Toronto, Canada.