Diamant Track - TZG edition

This track bike was produced in the Diamant bike factory in Karl-Marx-Stadt in former GDR in 1976. It was made as a training bike for the sport club “SG Wismut Gera”, where it was painted in the typical club colours (3 red-orange crosslines on grey base colour). The outlines of the lugs were painted in black and the frame was marked with the abbreviation TZG 13/8 on the top tube. This abbreviation stands for “Trainingszentrum Gera" (training centre Gera), which had 13 of these track bikes in use. I got this frame with the original fork (unfortunately drilled), headset, bottom bracket and Keba track chain. At first, I used all the things I stored over the years to put this bike in a rideable shape with a classic fixie look. Besides this I was always looking for original parts, whereby the first extemporary parts were replaced step by step. Firstly, I rode this bike in a road configuration with a Diamant racing bar and an additional front brake. Later on, I decided not to use the bike in normal road traffic any longer, because I got more and more interested in track cycling. Consequently, I removed the front brake, closed the drilling hole in the fork and added an original Elsner track stem and a drop bar.