Otis - the bike never had nice paint, and was never branded as a Paramount, however, Schwinn provided Paramounts to all of the team. This is just a very modified Paramount built to Vande Velde's specifications.
GeraldChan - the current plan is to lace the hubs to a set of black Open Pros I have sitting in Santa Cruz. Unless anyone has any 32H MA2s for me
. Record Pista cranks and chainring, Cinelli bar/stem, MKS Sylvan pedals with MKS clips and Toshi double straps (at least for now).
bigwoo - me too!