if you give google a chance to translate, this is a pretty cool website. The Russians take their old Vostok-Mart bikes and trick them out with modern components http://veloinsider.ru/ystroistvo/krokodilovodstvo-xvz.html another website http://k-113.ru/bike/crocofaq.htm and a forum http://xt.ht/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=31 if you give it a chance, google can translate it all
I like the old Russian bikes! Good links man. I wake up every morning to RT news and Putin?! Guys my hero! lolol
btw, here's a cool Russian bike thread on the forum http://thecabe.com/forum/threads/russian-bicycles.84514/ also, searching Russian bikes, came across this belissima Italian lightweight photographed in Moskva