Hello? Hello, Dmitry? :-)
Another recent sighting of an XB3 / KVZ recently, here:
http://www.flickr.com/
=- Joe Bunik Walnut Creek, CA
On 11/9/09, Dmitry Yaitskov <dima@rogers.com> wrote:
> 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.)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Dmitry Yaitskov,
> Toronto, Canada.