Originally Posted by
pastorbobnlnh
I'll add Radiant Blue as one of mine. And some day I'd like to find a mid '60s Terra Cotta. Not a very common color.
Interesting that the Paramounts did come in those colors. Must be a royal pain to source either, though I recall that there was a Radiant Blue that sold on the Schwinn forums not long ago for a whopping good price.
Originally Posted by
unterhausen
well, your seat tube is square and doesn't extend to the inner diameter of the bb shell. I'm not that big on where the free surfaces of the tubes end up in the bb, but the seat tube is taking a lot of stress there, and it would have paid for them to extend it all the way into the shell. Obviously it has held up.
Not sure what you mean by the seattube being square (please clarify - I enjoy anything I can learn bout framebuilding), but I see what you mean about the seattube. Granted, it is not as bad as it looks (see the lightened photo), but it could be far better. They took the shortcut once again
-Kurt