Rejigged the Pompino to be a local shopping/pub/town trips bike; an afternoon's work today. Slightly odd colours, because it was dusk when I grabbed a few pics
It's now got a SA 2-speed kick-operated coaster brake hub: kick back to change gear, back-pedal to brake. No cables, so it's no more cluttered than when it was fixed.
I also replaced the old burned-out roller brake bit of the dynohub with one with a cooling fin - which involved
bodging carefully fabricating a fork bracket and cable hanger. You can't buy this part, and the old one had an integral hanger on the reaction arm.
It's got a 19T sprocket (came with the hub) and a 43 1/8 chainring (that I had lying around). I thought it might be a bit undergeared (61/44") but since it has Marathon Plus tyres it needs low gears
The brakes are a bit of a sod to disconnect so the M+s are probably a necessity.
It was interesting to use the kickback gear change, and I love the backpedal brake. With a big old ex-MTB canti lever the roller brake is pretty effective too. The old brake was ineffectual.