Old 07-08-09 | 11:22 PM
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Going on a Paramount Hunt
 
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From: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Bikes: 1987 Eisentraut Rainbow Trout, 1970? Coppi, 1986 TREK 500 Tri Series, 196? Legnano Super Sport, 1993 Klein Rascal

Originally Posted by kevinsubaru
Well, here it is

Certainly not high end, and the welds look like a 6 year old did them (probably did anyhow), but it's sturdy and in great shape! I can fit two of me in the seat, but probably only one larger person.

The grips say "Peacock" but that's the only English on it. Can anyone read the rest?

I already swaped out the cheap 36t crank for a square taper crankset with a high quality 32t ring (in pictures) I had sitting around. The front brake is a rod brake, and the rear is a ban drum brake. Should do fine on the flats. 24" tires.

The headset was a complete basket case. The crown race was not ever installed, but it was placed over the bearings on the top, and then the top race was on top of that. To finish it off, someone used JB weld to secure things up

All is better, and I just need to go get some new bearings, clean it more, some decorations, and some customers I also need to make a padded back rest, and see if I can make a sun canopy of some sort.












That is one nice looking machine. Time to go into business I think kevinsubaru. The world needs more pedicab services to cut down on global warming!

Mrs. TIOS has kindly provided some basic traslations from the Simplified Chinese script shown.

The blue decal on the tire = Hang Tung Tire Co.

The tire script = Maximum Capacity Weight Load 80 KG / Relative Pressure 350 kPa

Seat = Nan Yang Xin Tai which translates into English as South Ocean. Probably a brand / company name.

All translations are approximate!
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