[sacci things]

Thanks people who posted response here and those who sent me PM.

As I study the catalogues and check the Ukrainian sites (with dodgy Google translation) the sad fact came up - almost all sporty bikes made in the USSR were from 54cm and up. Too large for me and my girlfriend.

I also considered remove tubes and re-solder into lugs to make a smaller frame but back in Soviet time the tubes were first pinned to the lugs then brass solder was melted into meaning I won't be able to or it will be very difficult to remove tubes

In the West bikes were made more commercially oriented so they had to cover a wide range of demographic groups and made smaller and larger frames both in a small atelier to huge factories. While in USSR those sporty bikes had only four sizes at best...

Here is a multi-lingual version of an export catalogue I came across and fro what I see the exported models had even fewer choices....
http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/V_O_..._1964.html

I will not give up hopes though, there may be some odd limited production models that had smaller geometry. (ХВЗ Спецзаказ)

Does anyone have info on those bikes made by a factory now called Baltik Vairas? Did they ever make sporty bikes?

cheers

Sacci