For the Paramount lovers
 

My 70s track.

Nice bike. Gotta love that stem.

Cinelli steel adjustable. A friend found it NOS in the Netherlands and brought to me.

a very good friend. Absolutely georgeous.

Its actually called a "stayer" stem, used in motorpacing. Not sure they used em on traditional track bikes, but it was too cool not to use. I got the bike pretty rough, someone had converted it to a roadbike by crudely brazing on a derailler hanger, adding clinchers and drilling for brakes from and rear. Brian Baylis did the repairs and fantastic paint, stripping and decals. Just to be different I used some wood rims. The Brooks was handcut into a swallow like my stepfather showed me how they did em in the 50s. Thanks!

are those wood rims? haven't seen a set in a while

Yeah, Italian wood rims. PITA!

That is a very nice bike! What is the gearing? How is it ridden; around town, on the track or something else? What's motorpacing and why the name "stayer"? Sorry for the 20 questions, I am just curious.

For comprison's sake, this is a 1977 PAramount Track bike, all OEM (except the front brake, and the fork was drilled at the Factory for that.)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...art/track2.jpg

""Its actually called a "stayer" stem, used in motorpacing. Not sure they used em on traditional track bikes""

Well I know that the Major Taylor adjustable stems look identical and were used for early track bikes. I never was sure of the rationale......maybe the bikes were used for more than 1 rider? I have a mid-70's 3ttt adjustable stem and the slope angle is more road than track.....so I'm not sure about it's intented use.

Don't recall the gearing, never been ridden; used to hang in my office until I closed it a few years ago and work at home; now its in storage along with about 20 other bikes. Was in a show in LA 10 years ago, but it was my Hetchins that won a prize!

Pacing is riding behind another bicycle or motorcycle to increase speed; used for training and there are some events too I believe. "Stayer" I imagine comes from staying with the one being followed, don't know for sure, never rode track myself. Found this online:

stayer - a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer"

Yeah, apparently you could order the track Paramounts without the chrome lugs and save 50 bucks! I think mine is a '75, but since it was being repainted, I wanted the '73 and earlier seat tube graphics.

Adjustable stems were common on track bikes, but you can see the stayer is quite long. I imagine bikes were shared, but also allowed adjustment for different events, periods of time, conditioning.

Nothing to add except a picture of my '76.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/2...e35f0536_b.jpg

Dang, thats like NEW!