[CR]Re: Prugnat vs. Nervex lugs on Chrome Paramounts

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

From: "David Novoselsky" <dnovo@ix.netcom.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:20:10 -0500
Subject: [CR]Re: Prugnat vs. Nervex lugs on Chrome Paramounts

My 1973 Paramount is all chrome, very original, and has the Nervex lugs (no red lug lining, they weren't doing it then, at least many of the all-chrome 73s according to the late Dave Staub when we discussed it off line.

I have the following lugs on my Paramounts:

1941 Track bike: 'Keyhole' lugs, white lug lining, red painted bike and lugs 1959 Track bike: Nervex lugs, outlined in blue, white painted bike and lugs 1959 Road bike: Nervex lugs, outlined in white, blue painted bike and lugs 1961 Road bike: Nervex lugs, chrome lugs, no outlines, cooper painted bike 1967 Road bike: Prugnat lugs, chrome lugs, no outlines, white painted bike 1973 Chrome as described above 1985 White, NOS, but not here, being fitted out with the NOS Campy 50th group, can't recall which lugs, but painted pearlized white to match the rest of the bike's paint.

I have seen a fair number of other Paramounts. The Prugnat lugs, and the ones on my 1967 are very nicely done I might add, seem to be in the minority on the surviving examples I have seen. The Waterford achives say that they were not as popular as the Nervex, and with the exception of the BB lugs, they were replaced after brief usage in the mid-60s with the Nervex, the factory then using up its supply of Prugnat BBs. Dave Novoselsky Chicago, Illinois