Originally Posted by Sierra
It's looking great Bob!
I don't know if you care, but I don't think the Campagnolo brakes are period correct for the bike. I think Campag. first started making brakes about 1968. As an aside, the first ones had no logo on them and have been know to sell for $1500.00.
Eric,
The best I can guess, the original owner did a number of upgrades about or after 1971, the patent date stamped on the Campagnolo Nuovo Record rear derailleur. I wonder if he was at the LBS, saw a newer Paramount equiped with Campy brakes and decided to add them. He left the crankset alone (as you well know) and updated at least the brakes calipers and levers, as well as the RD. He might have also added the tubulars at that time. Since I am the third owner, I had to repaint, and I'm upgrading it to a triple, I'm not too worried about exactness. BTW, I installed the Phil Wood BB this morning and mounted the crankset, I achieved the clearances needed for the chainrings, so far. I'll add the chain tonight. For now I'll be using a set of "dump find" wheels (27 X 1 1/4). I'll have two sets of wheels to build this winter, a set of vintage Mavic tubulars and a set of late '70s Ayraya clinchers (27 X 1), both on Campy high flange hubs (with straight skewers
).