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If you want your bike to go off road, often simple is best, while making it look unique is down to a different set of choices. This is one of my Romet Jubilats, while the one you can see inside the barn has wider bars, a shortened headstock to fit different forks, and a six speed derailleur...

That sounds like excellent progress! As it is winter I am spending most of my time in the city, taking the opportunity to overhaul my Wigry and Turing 2 that I keep here, particularly replacing their BB and cranks. I have already found some light damage to the non-crank side bearings, so I...

I always either go on to continually modify my bikes, or completely strip them down. The ones I strip down are usually the ones I have built to try out an idea. This winter all my current rideable Romets are having the crank/BB replaced since the crank/BB went out of production about 5 or so...

11 71 - according to the first picture.

It might be a different model of Micargi - it has a lot of classic Micargio features, but it might either be modified or no longer in production.

Well it is many, many years since I have done anything like that, but it is something I look forward to trying out again, especially with my limited resources. Most of my things are at my village 'farm', but I have always assumed that the bearings are still 5/16" even if most of everything else...

I have been working on my purple Wigry, in an attempt to exchange the crank and BB with one off a Dutch bike, an Amsterdam. Now both the Amsterdam and my purple Wigry were put out as rubbish here at my block at the same time, so I took them both in. The Wigry was in pieces and was lacking the...

I was thinking of using a small drill press, when I can find one, but I really would like to find someone with a lathe. With that there is a chance of removing the tempering, making a tool with the right profile to lightly cut it, grinding it similar to how you have done it here, and then...

You did not fit a wedge in that seat post when you fitted it, then removed the bolt?

And I still extend mine by hammering in a slightly smaller tube with a cut down the length, and then hammering on the extender tubes...

So the seat tube is supposed to be straight on this model? I saw the rust chip on it, but I am not familiar with this model, so I take it that the seat stays are not normally bent like that and that is also why the rear fender is so close to the tire? I also assume yumping this bike is also why...

So you never had to ride to school in the rain or snow? You never had snow crushing up inside your fenders so they eventually cracked? You never had to push the mud that jammed underneath them with a stick after riding off road? Arrrgh! ;)

One pair? I have a whole stash of them in the dry room of our wooden barn, along with sets of the most uninteresting and generally beat up racks, just sitting there. When I were a lad all my bikes had plastic ones, and of course they eventually cracked and had to be removed, or at least the...

It is like two bikes in one...

That is a good idea, I have not used valve grinding compound in 30 years. The problem I have with mine is that they get badly damaged, like really dented and even cracked, but there must be a lot of worn bearings out there and I am sure that I will find some with repairable damage. :)

Here is my Kross again, outside a vehicle scrapyard, the kind of place where I spent a lot of my time when I was much, much, much more youthful. I have done very little to my Kross since I bought it - it has a front mudguard added, but the mount for the rear one kept getting slack so that it...

Unless that chain is drooping between the derailleur and the front sprocket, it looks like the chain is a few links too short.

I might continue my current build, although modified in some ways, as it is difficult working in the winter when there is a ton of snow on the ground and your workshop has an open door. The other year I built a cardboard 'fuel tank' and seat in my flat, and I might make another tank for my...

I had a Honda similar to one of these, a CF70, when I was an apprentice. If you pulled away hard in first gear you would find yourself standing on the ground with the bike standing up on its rear fender in front of you.

We stayed for two weeks at somebodies summer house in a pine wood near a lake a few years back, where they even had a bike in the store room that I could take for long runs to the local villages and around the huge lake. The nearby town was also great to visit, and I was lucky enough to get this...