I owned a match-built Paramount. I'm not sure this has been mentioned but there was a plan to have a special bottom bracket cable guide on these bikes that, well, was apparently never realized or finished. (I recall Curt telling me about this.) Without this guide the cables simply pulled across the bb shell and stayed put by staying taunt. It worked fine but in the long run there was going to be paint worn away.
Mine was certainly among the last built and an Acme paint job. It was rather nicely done. The bike was a pretty quick handler. I didn't mind the look of the fork but the overall handling of the bike was, how shall we say, sometimes challenging. I lent the bike to a good pal who loved the way it handled and rode is some before I sold it to a good iBOBpal. The lugs looked crisp and handsome on my bike and I would love to see another bike built with these lugs, one with a lower bb and something other than that harder-than-a-rock 853 tubing (the only steel tubing that, imhe, I can actually notice and not in a good way.)
Douglas Brooks
Bristol, New York