Looks like I'm going to end up being an unfortunate Waterford victim. For the price Rich asks for his stuff, you'd think he would tighten up about service promptness.

You know, I've always wondered whether my '61 Paramount was or was not designed for 700C's - I always thought 27"s were what it was spec'ed with, but I've been running 700C's on it with the stock brakes with hardly any issue - did not even have to put a 610 on the front.

Funny how the Paramount geometries changed now and then. There is an all-chrome '72 at one local shop at present that was made for 700C, and despite being the same frame size as my '70 (and yours, as a matter of fact), the stays and forks are a shorter fit.

-Kurt