How The Russians Do It - Crocodile

[bulldog1935]

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

 

[CrazyDave]

I like the old Russian bikes! Good links man. I wake up every morning to RT news and Putin?! Guys my hero! lolol

 

[bulldog1935]

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