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Old 03-06-06 | 08:14 PM
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I was cruising the bay last night and found a Schwinn Peloton frame for sale, so being a sucker for the 80ish Schwinn that I am I took a look. It looked great at first and I wanted to bid on it until something caught my eye. This is why I'm posting here for some help. The owner said the frame was a repaint so I'm ok with that but I noticed the Columbus frame decal was for Columbus SLX. Did they use Columbus SLX tubes for the Schwinn Peloton? I have a Schwinn Tempo in Columbus Tenax but I've never seen a 80ish Schwinn in SLX. Did I find a race Schwinn? Could this be a Paramount by mistake? Need some help.
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Old 03-06-06 | 08:38 PM
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The mid-eighties Pelotons were next to the Paramounts in the model line-up. In '84 and '85, the Peloton used a custom mix of both Columbus SL and SP tubes, with Sun Tour forged drop-outs with adjusters.

The Super Sport and Tempo used Tenax.
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Old 03-07-06 | 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Scooper
The mid-eighties Pelotons were next to the Paramounts in the model line-up. In '84 and '85, the Peloton used a custom mix of both Columbus SL and SP tubes, with Sun Tour forged drop-outs with adjusters.

The Super Sport and Tempo used Tenax.
While perusing the TRFindley site, I noticed that while both 84 and 85 Pelotons used a combination of SL and SP tubing, the 84 had a 26.6 seat post and the 85 had a 27.2. Was SP tubing available is different thicknesses for seat tubes or did they switch to SL for the seat tube in 85? Either way 26.6 seems a bit on the skinny side for SP tubing. Schwinn wouldn't have mixed Tenax in there would they?
I know I shouldn't care about stuff like this, but I can't help it.
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