Originally Posted by
Bandera
"Cleaner than the ornate 1970′s Nervex lugs"
"Cleaner" is not what I'd want in a 75th anniversary Paramount, verisimilitude is.
Marc should know better than trying to fob off Waterford's "limited edition lugs", which are modern/nice/whatever/who-cares, as in any way superior aesthetically superior to Chicago 70's Paramount's Nervex.
The "groundbreaking OS lugset design of the 1980′s" was nice at the time but it's a Waterford thing not a classic Chicago built P-mount.
Oversized tubing? No thanks, modern 631/725/853 in a standard size would be fine.
Just be honest and say "We can't afford to build them the way they were, but here's something else that's modern & very well constructed that Richard thinks we should market as a Paramount".
Call it something else, "75th Anniversary Paramount" is just nasty to those who owned/own the real thing.
-Bandera
I encountered this at B.A.M.F. in High Point. Every Paramount owner showing seemed to deride all the other Paramounts.
I like the 75th, and I'd just get the Air with the basic fork and upgrade to pearl white paint. Then I'd deride everyone else's. I could care less about the tubing, since I know they'd use good stuff. Given a druther, I'd ruther Tange Prestige be used. OS if fine with me, as I dig norskagent's '89 in OS.
I've never cared for ornate lugs. I appreciate them, on Paramounts as well as beat-up old Raleigh's, but not my cup o'
The price is high, but the same SuperCorsa would set you back an relative amount, as well.
The difficult choice would be finding a group that I'd like the looks of. Maybe a 7900 group with the silver part polished, I dunno. Irrelevant as long as newer groups get farther and farther away from the traditional looks. Like I should talk, sticking modern groups on older frames....