Gigantic!

...unlikely yes, but maybe it's a team of dwarves? Ok, it's from World Track Cycling Championship `89 in Lyon, France and the photo comes from here.

Moscow 1980

All photos by vvr1984 / Vadim Vorontsov.

More Rossin Pursuit Bikes

(Fake?!) Rossin Pista Pursuit

This is Rossin is on Ebay now. The price has gone up from 400 dollars to the current 1500 dollars in less than 24 hours and there are still five days before the auction closes. Like whoa! Also check out the tiger and the scary horror movie dwarf or whatever in the background of the photo.

EDIT.
As pointed out at LFGSS, this could well be a fake, unfortunately. There are not any of the typical Rossin pantographs on the frame and the cool monostay cannot be found in any other similar pursuit Rossins, at least not on the ones one can find photos of online anyway. Also it looks repainted so buyer beware. 

Blame the wheelbuilder...

You can actually now buy the Raleigh on the left. It's on Ebay, check it out here.

Meanwhile in Tallinn, Estonia...

Estonian National Track Cycling Championships. Looks like it's raining, hard.

Via http://blog.rekord.ee/

Rossin Pista 1989

These are very nice. Finnish catalogue scans of the Rossin track bikes from 1989 with original prices in Finnish markka and all. For example the 6350 FIM would be about 1070€ today. I guess the catalogue was made by Tunturi brand who imported Rossin to Finland at the time.

The fact that I very recently scored a lovely track frameset equiped with some original Gipiemme Pista Special parts on it much like the one above makes this an even sweeter find.

The TT bike conversion(?) below is bit funky looking, though. The grey track bike below made with more obscure and apparently slightly heavier Falck tubing appears to be the budget version as the complete bike was priced about two thirds of price of the Columbus SL version. The parts are not exactly the same either.

Scands stolen from http://cyclingnsht.blogspot.com

Just Some Laser Pistas

"Heather borrows a bike and rides the track"

...and hits the deck at the Pruszkow Velodrome in Poland.

Riding On Rails

Seen at the Athens Olympic Velodrome during a race.

Photo by Rokpete.

TK3

The track bike, Felt TK3 2010, for the velodrome. I sold the pink EAI Bareknuckle in order to get bit more modern here. The rear wheel will soon be upgraded to a Mavic Ellipse but I've been pretty happy with the bike so far. Of course it didn't make me any faster than before.

Takhion Replica 1 - 2011

Olli Erkkilä's latest and by far the greatest project the handbuilt soviet Takhion track bike replica is finally ready!

Morning at the 'drome

Pics from the Käpylä Velodrome in Helsinki, taken today by tnts & Kim.

Track Season Begins

First Yksivaihde.net Breakfast Track Session of the season. Was fun again after the long winter but I sucked. Will try harder! Will push bigger gear! Will spin! Will MASH!

Zykkeli took the photos.

Le Champion!

Gregory Baugé, the new UCI Track World Champion of Mens Sprints.

Remember also that he's the guy who skids on the track,  when needed...

World Championship `89 Lyon

All photos from Numerius' FLickr stream.

Rossin, Takhion & Bianchi

From Bici Crono's Flickr.

Faster Than Speed // @ Cido Arena Velodrome, Panevėžys, Lithuania.

Faster Than Speed from Fixie Vids on Vimeo.

"Finnish fixed gear community Yksivaihde.net organized a weekend trip to Panevėžys in Lithuania. Cido Arena is equipped with a 250 meters long wooden olympic cycling track."

Moscow 1980

Epic book scans provided by Numerius, and there plenty more...

Lutz Heßlich & Texima Bahnrad

Some East-German track cycling history here:

Great Lutz Heßlich portrait, from here, as seen at Prollys.

"Lutz Heßlich a GDR Sprinter (two times Olympic and 6x World Champion) rode 1984 in Moscow the 200m flying in 9.98sec. as first man on the earth."

However, the bike on the lower photo, although it appears to be the same model on each photo, is actually Michael Huebener's Texima, image from here.