I was at our local Velodrome bike swap this Sunday and made a deal on a 72 chrome Paramount frame. It is in good condition, not quite as good as my 71 P 13-9 but pretty good nonetheless. I wasn't really looking for one, but this one must have had my name on it. I have little resistance to things with chrome on them. This one is a 25 inch frame, the same as my Opaque Blue P 15, a bit more comfortable to me than the 24" P 13-9.

It is a touring frame, serial number indicates November of 1972. The decals, or what was left of them, were the pre-73 style. This brings up the question.....how to build it?

In looking at the 72 and 73 catalogs (thanks, Bob!), there is no P-10 shown in the 72 catalog but there is in the 73. I'd love to build it as a P 15, but I have no triple and the options for obtaining one aren't all that good. I have a fear of spending big bucks to buy one, only to find the common stress crack in it that is beyond repair. I have an entire gruppo taken from a 76 P 10, some of it with no date code or ones that predate 1972. I guess Schwinn let that stuff sit around without using the old stuff first, or something like that.

The 76 P 10 frame had a closer brake bridge and used Campy brakes, there is no way they will work on this frame, so I have to go with Weinmann.

I have thought of finding a more modern Campy triple and using that, also of doing what Stan did to his P 15, using a more modern Campy RD.

Pictures forthcoming, for now just imagine a large chrome Paramount frame with Nervex lugs and no lug lining.

I am open to suggestions. Anyone got any?