Crimson Ghost's polish bikes, looong term builds + KOBA

You may know me from my Bio-Bike TT project, which fortunately never got finished. I decided that putting both crappy and okay-ish (we never made super awesome parts) on a broken frame is a retarded idea so I sold the frame. Since that, my collection got substantially bigger and now I have pretty much only polish or 'polish' (more on that later) framesets (with the exception of a Takhion, HVZ Meteor and a Colnago Master TT) that need to be build up with boring parts like Campy Nuovo/Super Record.
This thread is going to be a mess, since I very often change parts between bikes and pretend they're new builds. Anyway, stick around and here are a couple of project that are close to be finished.

This was my most recent build. Romet Super on Reynolds 531 tubes built mainly with polish components apart from brakes, rims, tubs, mechs, saddle and freewheel). It was a little banged up so I decided to sell it. Wheels are build on Campy Victory Strada and polish Pama hubs which have sealed bearings and they'll be used in this bike:

Romet Super ('87) on Columbus SL tubes made for the national team. It was used as a promotional bike and in the Peace Race. It will be built on Campy Super Record (apart from the hubs). What I still need is the front mech, chainrings and hoods for the levers.
I even managed to find original decals from the 80's.

Romet Special on Reynolds 531 tubes, cyclocross version. I don't like the cloth bar tape, and the wheels, so those things will be changed. The Campy Record hubs stay, but I'll put some new rims and most importantly cyclocross tubulars. Ah, and I have the cyclocross Campy Nuovo Record rear mech so I'll put it in there too.

Romet Super on Columbus SL tubes. Coming along just fine, I'll build it up on Tecno 416's, Izhevsk crankset (converted to track) and Deda Piega compact bars. I'm still waiting for the rear Mack hub, though...

Romet Super TT on Columbus Air tubes with a proprietary fork. I really had to try hard to get this one, but it's finally in my room, ready to be painted red and white (it was made for the national team) like this one:

I have the original fork for it but I think that the forkmounted handlebar will be way cooler. For this one I need hoods for the levers and maybe a Mavic OR10 rim, that depends on which wheelset I decide to use. It will be built on Campy Super Record.

Romet Super ('85) on Columbus SL tubes made for the national team, cyclocross version. I bought it without rear brake pivots, but fortunately this problem got sorted out just fine. It will be built on Campy Nuovo Record and Weinmann AG420 (for which I need some small parts). I managed to find NOS soviet cyclocross tubulars that were properly stored for ca. 30 years:

Rigi Velox/OSCA. This one isn't entirely Polish. Rigi bicycles were introduced in Poland through a framebuilder named Oswaldo Cazzaniga who basically just put his own decals on them. Some of them had OSCA decals, like mine, some - CAZZANIGA. This one has a fork that is similar to what Romet made (same forkcrown) but the tangs are bent slightly different, even though the rake is the same as in any other Romet fork. So I assume that Oswaldo replaced forks in some framesets. This one still needs inner chainring, a seatpost and obviously hoods for the levers. It will be built on Campy Nuovo Record.

Quite a collection! Will follow with interest.

I subscribe of this kurwa topic with very kurwa interest

I now want a Romet. well played.

Oh, there's more ;)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/119115047@N03/sets/

Welcome to the magical world of wood panelling, I'll be your guide.

Ha,
Nice collection. The blue one looks really nice.
What bars will you use for the romet super TT one?

Regular, crappy Romet bullhorns, turned upside-down and cut. That's how they did it, probably on a professional level too :D

Yeah. Thought so. It'll look really cool.

That rychtarski of yours is soo bangable. What size front wheel is the Romet Super TT?

All of my Romet TT's take a 700c wheel in the front.
The Rychtarski is getting a 700c fork soon ;)

Which to put on the Super TT...

Also, the Rigi Velox now has a bigger brother - Rigi Spaziale. It will be painted red with a chromed fork and OSCA decals, obviously.

Larger pic: https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7760/16902356943_c6ce132495_o.jpg

Welllllllll...

Fork for Rigi Spaziale just got back from chroming. Lush

Lush

I've been buying lots of crap lately...

^Romet lugs. I especially like the black hoods because even though they're 30 years old, they aren't stiff. And they're polish, which is a nice touch.

Also, a couple of days ago I decided that I need an Alan.
As for the rest of my frames. 3 Rigi's (yeah, I now own 3) are getting sorted; white/red Super only needs a stem and a seat-tube decal and the Columbus Air Super will get a slightly different paintjob.

More crap:

The paint is so messed up that I'm just going to be telling people that I fought over this frame with a pack of stray dogs.

Track Osca finally painted

Looking good

Looks like installing a higher crown race didn't do the trick. This is the clearance with a 25c tire...
I also did some math and it turns out that the complete bike will weigh 7.8kg.
Which is not bad.

That's pretty crazy

Yesterday I came home with this:

Any idea how much it's worth? I'm looking to sell it, but I've only seen these big campy toolboxes on ebay. The peanut butter wrench is missing.

It's worthless without the peanut butter wrench. I'll take it of you.

Seriously, it's got to be worth hundreds of euros? Tool porn!