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Here is my version of the above bike, much younger at about 25 years old, from the period when so many Romets were built without any reference to Romet. This one was branded for a bike shop that no longer exists, far from Eastern Poland. The little bits of tubing connecting the front tubes...

Come to think about it, I do not remember all pumps having a pin to depress the valve, you just had to pump hard enough to open the valve by air pressure, which is really not much different to Dunlop valves.

If it has cracked that far, it might remain stable or the wheel may become wobbly. There is a bit of steel in there for the bearings to run on, which may keep everything in order, or not, depending on what kind of paving you are riding on. The chances are you might have to push it home. If this...

Ah, Falcon derailleur and lever, I have an identical set of those on one of my Romets, built here in Poland during the Communist era.

That crack looks rusty, so it was probably there before you played around with it.

I used to have a full set of brake and gear cables for this bike, but I never marked them when I added them to my cable box. I also have about three sets of this type of brake stocked away, but I have never really messed around with them as, by the time I get the bikes, all the cables and stuff...

If you fitted a 1/4" or 1/2" spacer on the the lower front mount, how much would that rotate the mudguard?

Ah, so you are left handed ;) I like the angle on the gear change handle, it looks more comfortable.

I thought that if you remove a link pair, the change in distance between the sprocket centres is effectively half the removed length, about 1/2"?

Dunlop/Woods valves were common from Europe to Asia, all my tubed bikes in Britain up until the 1970s used them, the Schraeder being relatively rare at that time on a bicycle - but now they are very common while the Dunlop/Woods valves are relatively rare. Here in Poland most bikes used the...

Ah right, that makes much more sense!

There might be some flexing when you pedal hard with that BB mount, but it is certainly an interesting way of doing it :)

What is that transparent piece of plastic mounted under the top bar for?

No, you just have not noticed ;) My image to the left is my 3 speed hub from one of my Romets.

So I spent some time modifying my table and, since it is now longer, I had to sort out the pile of junk and pieces of wood that used to stand at one end. This bike is noticeably longer than most of the bikes I usually deal with in my Warsztat, and now that I have tried it out I realise that I...

While I think about and search for all the other gear changer parts that originally came off this incomplete frame, I could do something about the mudguards / fenders. I have a lot for bikes with 24" wheels and smaller, and I have already cut up the only ones I had for a bike with 26" wheels...

In our city of Lublin, in eastern Poland, cycle tracks are the latest and greatest thing. When I first arrived here some 28 years ago there was barely any bicycles around, and no cycle routes. That has changed, and bicycles are back! Where we live in the countryside, on a small dead end road...

This is the first one of these I have seen as a Romet and recognised - other than as someone riding something down a road. I may have the same model hanging in my Warsztat, but that is on our farm and we are currently in the city, but that was not marked as a Romet and the state of the welding...

As this bike has been ridden a lot, the seat has become worn out and has begun to split - which you cannot see from here, of course... Still, the seat was obviously fitted with its cover before these two metal mounting bars were fitted, as the staples are behind the bars. My question is what...

The bike, when you look at it from a little distance, looks like a presentable bike, but when you get up close - like here - the good bits look a lot less good... I am not sure what you have to do to your bike to end up with a such a rusty bearing. I had a spare front triple sprocket that...