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hmmm that is disappointing, perhaps we should start stretching our legs to grow taller!! Seriously thanks so much for your input folks. I now have to concentrate on:

- collect components made by Kharkov (aluminium derailleur, racing hubs, brake levers etc) taken off from mostly Start Shosse. Anyone has a Kharkov pump in good working order?

- keep searching for limited special models in my size (ХВЗ Спецзаказ) road bike not track or TT bike. Perhaps they made Rekord in size 50?

- collect head badges and cast or even pressed dropouts and lugs from old or broken Kharkov frames.

- investigate on East German and Czech made bikes if any racing or sporty types available; no I am not flirting

- investigate on older, 40s-50s racing and sport bikes if they made in smaller size even though compatibility of parts can be more difficult.

- ask those wise and knowledgeable people here and other Estonian bike forums for help Any other suggestions?

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

Nope, they didn't, mainly just the Ereliukas model and later a model or two of folding bikes. Also produced moped engines and such.