Re: [CR]Paramount lug question

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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 06:43:34 -0800
From: "Brian Baylis" <rocklube@adnc.com>
To: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@nls.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Paramount lug question
References: <l03130302b6eac0a90182@[216.144.8.195]>


Tom,

There was one year or so that Schwinn Paramounts used Prugnat short point lugs of a type I don't know the model number, but I have a bunch of them.

Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA
>
> I am looking at pictures of the headtube lugs from a 1970 P-15 (the touring
> model) Paramount, and the headtube lugs do not appear to me to be Nervex,
> though the bottom bracket lugs and the seattube lug does appear as nervex.
>
> The headtube lugs look similar to chromed Prugnat lugs; the lugs do not
> have the sharp points in them like Nervex, have more cut out.
>
> If they aren't Nervex and it is an unrepaired 1970 Schwinn Paramount, or
> unreplaced (though there probably isn't such a word) headtube lugs and
> headtube, does anyone know what these lugs are?
>
> Part of the problem is the pictures are not terrible clear too.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tom Hayes
>
> Tom Hayes
> 18585 Munn Road
> Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
> hayesbikes@nls.net
> hayes@jcu.edu