Originally Posted by
Robert Foster
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.
Well, that was about the time the Hunt brothers tried to corner the market on silver. Let's see, 15 pounds times $27/oz...