Re: [CR]Re Soviet Takhion track bike

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:11:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re Soviet Takhion track bike
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <BLU117-W957169EB20CA7090DD25ACB120@phx.gbl>


i still have no clue...need to see that black cap come off. the guy has some super nice bikes. that's for sure. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80048824@N00/2269684146/

jeff piwonka
austin texas usa


--- Baron von Drais wrote:


>
> 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
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