Here's a short story about a Chrome Paramount back in that day- It belonged to Steve Shaffer who was from Indianapolis and worked at Supreme Schwinn, and then later got a job a Schwinn in Chicago and rode for the Windy City Wheelmen. Steve rode for Delta Chi one year in the IU Little 500 in 1972, but came back to train with the team in Florida when I rode in later years.

He told us all of some time he'd gotten lost in some south side of chicago area and a group of black men pulled up beside him in some badass era gangsta limosine- you know, diamond in the back, sun roof top, diggin the scene in the gangsta lene? One of them rolled the window down and said to him 'My, my. Look at that white boy on his chrome bicycle!"

Anyway, he told that to the bike team, and we all thought that was kinda funny about 1973. I always thought chrome was cool but never had a chrome bike, it sorta went outta style about then, and the racers always considered it heavier anyway. I first started riding with a couple of guys who were national road champions and they both rode chrome Cinellis and both of them had frames that broke, so maybe that was just unfortunate circumstance or maybe just because they could thrash like few others at the time.

good luck with it. A beautiful bike.

I had a '74 silver Paramount track bike- the 531 decal was exactly like the one shown above labled "through '73"- and pretty much the only one I knew at the time. The bike DEFINETLY looks about '72 period, but yes the decal isn't- so it's 40 YEARS- it's a little DECAL! - someone scratched it and put another on probably.