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Schwinn Paramount

Please educate me on the details and value?http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=371058

Those MIJ Schwinns are nice but nothing like the Waterford era bikes. Find out what components are on it and if the owner has history with it or knows who had it originally. I would not go too much over a few hundred if it fits you.

If clean and components have life, I'd say $300. While not a Waterford, Panasonic is nothing to sneeze at! Will be a good rider and possible candidate for modernizing.

Here's what Marc Muller, then head of Schwinn's Paramount Design Group and now Richard Schwinn's partner in Waterford Precision Cycles, had to say about the National/Panasonic built PDG Series 7 and Series 5:

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Originally Posted by Marc Muller

National/Panasonic were willing and eager partners in this project. I spent a lot of time in their plant, and they at our corporate headquarters, overseeing the smallest details to assure the bikes were worthy of the name. While some of us had reservations about the use of the name, after spending the 80's building up the Schwinn/Paramount/PDG brand, once the decision was made to use the name everyone was on board to make the finest possible bikes at their price point. Are they Waterford Paramounts? No. Are they excellent bicycles? You bet! Don't listen to the bashers, you'll drive yourself crazy!

Thanks for the info. I knew I could find the catalogs online (I actually have them bookmarked) but I was curious about value and what people thought of these and how they came to be.