Paramount as found...
05-15-11 | 03:23 PM
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Paramount as found...
Poor thing. I was hoping it wouldn't be my size. I had my sister facilitate it for me. Turns out, I'm kind of attached to it now.
What's up with the cranks? They have weird holographic decals on the arms.
What's up with the cranks? They have weird holographic decals on the arms.
05-15-11 | 03:31 PM
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It's not as bad as you think. It just looks worse because that area of the top tube had been painted black some time in the past.
05-15-11 | 03:38 PM
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05-15-11 | 03:47 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
Great find. The SunTour rear derailleur is a functional upgrade, but a Campag. NR would be correct. The Sugino crankset is obviously aftermarket; Paramounts came w/ cottered cranks until about 1962, then w/ Campag.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
05-15-11 | 03:56 PM
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05-15-11 | 04:21 PM
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It's got a late-model slant parallelogram Campy rear derailleur, possibly Veloce. The crank is Sugino Mighty Compe- 144mm BCD so the rings interchange with Campy. Sugino BB, too.
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05-15-11 | 05:15 PM
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So... how old is it?
05-15-11 | 11:23 PM
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H73262 = 262nd Paramount frame scheduled in August, 1973. Without the top tube rear brake cable braze-ons, it has to be a P13-9, which would have used three Campy #649 brake cable clips on the top tube. Head lugs and fork crown are chrome plated.
05-19-11 | 11:56 AM
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Sorry, Scooper - that's a P10. Fork geometry and the rear wheel clearance are the dead giveaways. Someone removed the top-tube braze-ons.
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05-19-11 | 01:46 PM
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05-19-11 | 02:34 PM
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Yep, you're right. The P13 didn't have eyelets on the rear dropouts like this one.
05-19-11 | 02:41 PM
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