Question about Weinmann 27 x 1-1/4 tires and Paramount bikes
12-05-11, 07:53 PM
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Question about Weinmann rims/27 x 1-1/4 tires and Paramount bikes
Were there any Paramounts that originally had Weinmann rims/27" x 1-1/4" tires? If not which Schwinn bikes had the Weinmann rims/27" x 1-1/4" tires?
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12-05-11, 07:58 PM
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My '71 P15 tourer has 27" Weinmann rims.
I don't remember if the tires are 1-1/8" or 1-1/4". Bike is in storage at the moment so I can't check.
Doesn't make much difference(on this bike) in either case.
I don't remember if the tires are 1-1/8" or 1-1/4". Bike is in storage at the moment so I can't check.
Doesn't make much difference(on this bike) in either case.
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During the 70's Schwinn sold just about every road touring type bike in there line up with 27 1-1/4 Wienmann's at times. I do believe there where some Paramounts sold with 27 1-1/4 or 1-1/8 alloys. I had a early 80's Japanese made Paramount that had these rims.
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My wife's '88 Traveler has 27x1 1/4 Weinmann concave rims. https://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1...0/1988_16.html
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My '72 touring with a triple has Weinmann 27" clincher rims. Don't know what original tires were...
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My '72 Paramount P-15 has 27" Weinmann rims. Not sure about the original tires, but 27" X 1 1/4" Pasela gumwall tires work fine. The Weinmann rims are straight-sided, so you can't pump them up to more than 70 lbs pressure without risking a blowout. I forgot about this, so I know from bitter experience 
Modern rims are usually hooked sided, so you can pump them up to 100-120 lbs if you like.
Modern rims are usually hooked sided, so you can pump them up to 100-120 lbs if you like.
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Originally Posted by David Laird
My '72 Paramount P-15 has 27" Weinmann rims. Not sure about the original tires, but 27" X 1 1/4" Pasela gumwall tires work fine. The Weinmann rims are straight-sided, so you can't pump them up to more than 70 lbs pressure without risking a blowout. I forgot about this, so I know from bitter experience Modern rims are usually hooked sided, so you can pump them up to 100-120 lbs if you like.
Modern rims are usually hooked sided, so you can pump them up to 100-120 lbs if you like.Up until 1977 I rode a Raleigh Gran Prix with 27x1 1/4 tires, the only thing you could get in terms of tires.
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Originally Posted by systemBuilder
Until the latter half of the 1970's (1976-onwards, roughly), you could NOT get 27 1 1/8 tires. They had not been invented yet! The new narrow tires were a 2nd-half-of-1970's thing, perhaps an attempt to respond to 700c rims which offered the tubular tire experience and swap-ability with tubular rims for race day. In 1977 I was in high school and bought a SEKAI 2500 with 27x1 1/8 tires, and the narrow wired-on tires were a big selling point, only 290 grams, and the 27x1 tires which sekai/(probably panaracer or national) offered on the SEKAI 2700 were even lighter, at 270 grams: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/~gillies/s..._gt_deluxe.jpg
Up until 1977 I rode a Raleigh Gran Prix with 27x1 1/4 tires, the only thing you could get in terms of tires.
Up until 1977 I rode a Raleigh Gran Prix with 27x1 1/4 tires, the only thing you could get in terms of tires.
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