Originally Posted by
robtown
Absolutely stunning! If I bought her she'd have to keep me warm because my wife wouldn't. I'd be torn between keeping her pristine and riding her.
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The frame has never been ridden but the components are used, so it's really not that big a deal if you take it out. Not like riding it with NOS components. I'm not sure if the new owner plans to take it out though.
I never rode it because I had it built up with a near-mint Campy 50th gruppo and I wanted to keep it like that. You can see pics of it as a "50/50" here:
http://www.raydobbins.com/paramount/
I kept the 50th gruppo and stem for a future project, possibly to replace the C-Record gruppo on my De Rosa (
http://www.raydobbins.com/paramount), but I'm not sure yet. Whatever frame I choose will be Italian, since that is the focus of my collection now - the Paramount was the last of my non-Italian bikes.
Ray