Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
As we all know, an all Campy Schwinn Paramount was nearly identical to a Varsity. The collapse of gas prices (in real dollars) and the increased age of the boomers clearly had nothing to do with end of the bike boom.
So in 1975 the 23 pound 531 Campy equiped silver soldered Paramount was almost identical to the electro-forged flash welded steel schwinn tubes of the Varsity? Where did the extra 15 or more pounds come from?
Must have had a lot of silver solder to make the Paramount cost about 5 times more than the Varsity.
