Russian Works Racing Bike?

[VintageBike]

Can anyone help one of the visitors to the site identify this bike?

"On one of my trips around  the South Coast I took a few photos of this what I am told is a Works racing Russian Motorcycle imported by the Neval Importers in 1978/9.  The bike is 125cc and from what I am told there were 6 made, this one is number 6 and there are the bones of number 5 which has a cantilever frame.  The headstock plate has 1979 year and number 6 stamped. There is also the symbol of what looks like a flying bird "

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks
Nigel

[VintageBike]

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[m3bobby]

Can anyone help one of the visitors to the site identify this bike?

"On one of my trips around  the South Coast I took a few photos of this what I am told is a Works racing Russian Motorcycle imported by the Neval Importers in 1978/9.  The bike is 125cc and from what I am told there were 6 made, this one is number 6 and there are the bones of number 5 which has a cantilever frame.  The headstock plate has 1979 year and number 6 stamped. There is also the symbol of what looks like a flying bird "

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks
Nigel

Try this lot, they appear to know what their talking about

http://www.cossackownersclub.co.uk/library/pdf_files/019_neval_regent_britaine.PDF

Perhaps this was an attempt by the importers to make their own racer from standard bikes. A bit like Hitchcocks and their Indian Enfield  trials bikes.

[Luddite]

I saw this one on eBay a while back but sadly couldn't stump up the readies (I wouldn't fit on it anyway ).  The frame and bottom end are definitely Minsk - which is also the flying bird logo - but the top end, forks and brakes I don't recognise.  From memory, Neval's modified some of their bikes for offroad, and I rode a trials Minsk at Denver sluice garage back in the day, but I'm not convinced anyone but the factory would actually bother doing this conversion to such an unlikely machine...