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@Crimson_Ghost
Quite possibly the coolest Polish bicycle bit ever. WALJA C-Record knock-off. As far as I know, it stands for WALkiewicz JAn or sth (kinda like WAJA, ALAN, RIGI etc). The guy is dead now, but back in the day he bought out the inventory of Remo (they made campy record knock-offs: headsets, cranksets, bbs, hubs, and fauxnelli 1a stems), cranks and bbs to be precise, and started putting his own logos on them.
That was really simple cuz it required no work at all - stamp a part and move it. Later on however, he developed his own chainring shape (see 1st pic), which is a combination of C-Record shape with the BCD of a Super Record. Initially, these chainrings were used with the 'record/super record' crank knock-offs. Then he developed the faux C-Record cranks. I like how they were supposed to be practical above all, so the BCD is 144 and you could pretty much use any chainring you wanted.
WALJA POLAND looks pretty impressive...
...but this thing takes the cake.
There were several other components that could make up the 'Polish C-Record' groupset, but more on that in the near future.