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Schwinn Paramount tools/goodies?
In the really old days when the Schwinn Paramount was a hand made frame of
Reynolds double butted tubing, and most components were Campagnolo (except for stock brakes which were Weinmann and rims which were Mavic). In those days the Paramount came with a small set of tools, crank puller, cone wrenches, etc. Does anyone know when they stopped that? Or for that matter when the old hand made Paramount frames stopped being made (as I recall in Chicago) and were replaced by more mechanized manufacturing (located where)? |
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Schwinn Paramount tools/goodies?
Jack, when Schwinn quit making Paramounts in its Chicago factory, for
a number of years they farmed Paramount manufacture out to Waterford Cycles in Wisconsin. IMHO, some of the best Paramounts were made there. (Maybe I'm biased because I have a Waterford Paramount.) I believe they were still hand made at Waterford. It is my understanding that Schwinn never mechanized the production of any of its lugged, brazed frames, or its fillet brazed ones, because the only bikes they produced by machines were the ones that were electro- welded. I'm not sure if, or how long, Waterford kept using Reynolds 531 tubing, but at some point they started using Columbus SLX instead because that's what my bike is made from. No tool kit came with mine. I think I bought mine in about 1989, but it might have been an '87 or '88 model, I'm not sure. I really like mine, and it's my main bike. It's a little dated, and heavy compared to a modern composite frame, though. |
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