Variety was not wide, but there was several good/bad models.

Imports were mostly for sport/racing bikes for a world-class athletes, rest of the population used Soviet-build bikes.

Bikes were not used widely for commute, due to general road conditions, lack of bike lanes and overall car-driving culture which was (and still are) dangerous for everybody on the road.

As for recreation it was more popular, though mostly with a road bicycles, no mountain/downhill biking.