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I am a Japanese guy moved to Estonia late summer last year and now I see the snow and ice finally melting!! Yippee!!
Estonia is such a beautiful country summer or winter. You should consider yourself lucky!! I was not a hardcore cyclist this winter so did not take a ride on snow and I am so glad to see the cycling season is resuming.
I am very much interested in those old road racing and sport bikes from the 1960s well into the 1990s I find time to time in Tallinn. I think most of them are called Start Shosse. If someone knows much of the history (improvements over years, variations, sizes, colour schemes and so on) of such racing bikes which were available in Estonia before independence. I suppose there were some more racing bikes brought from Lithuania and Ukraine and also some Eastern European (Czech, East German etc) made bikes. I have not yet seen Takhion here in Estonia may be such professional bikes were too expensive thus rare. Can someone confirm please?
I would like to get hold of one nice racing frame probably Shosse in so-so condition for a restoration project. If you have such completed projects to show me pictures or have spare parts available please let me know!!
Even a trashed bikes may yield nice dropouts and lugs for collection.
I am not so much enthusiastic about track or TT bikes but more into geared road bikes. Some youngsters convert such collectable pieces into fixed bike just to destroy after doing some trick rides which makes me very sad!!
So far I have not seen much size variations of Start Shosse which means I maybe too short for most of them I usually ride road bikes around 48 and 50 depending on the geometry. Did they ever manufacture small frame racing bikes for the Estonian market?
Ok so many questions, hopefully someone can answer them
cheers
Sacci
I am a Japanese guy moved to Estonia late summer last year and now I see the snow and ice finally melting!! Yippee!!
Estonia is such a beautiful country summer or winter. You should consider yourself lucky!! I was not a hardcore cyclist this winter so did not take a ride on snow and I am so glad to see the cycling season is resuming. I am very much interested in those old road racing and sport bikes from the 1960s well into the 1990s I find time to time in Tallinn. I think most of them are called Start Shosse. If someone knows much of the history (improvements over years, variations, sizes, colour schemes and so on) of such racing bikes which were available in Estonia before independence. I suppose there were some more racing bikes brought from Lithuania and Ukraine and also some Eastern European (Czech, East German etc) made bikes. I have not yet seen Takhion here in Estonia may be such professional bikes were too expensive thus rare. Can someone confirm please?
I would like to get hold of one nice racing frame probably Shosse in so-so condition for a restoration project. If you have such completed projects to show me pictures or have spare parts available please let me know!!
Even a trashed bikes may yield nice dropouts and lugs for collection.I am not so much enthusiastic about track or TT bikes but more into geared road bikes. Some youngsters convert such collectable pieces into fixed bike just to destroy after doing some trick rides which makes me very sad!!
So far I have not seen much size variations of Start Shosse which means I maybe too short for most of them
I usually ride road bikes around 48 and 50 depending on the geometry. Did they ever manufacture small frame racing bikes for the Estonian market?Ok so many questions, hopefully someone can answer them
cheers
Sacci