[CR]Re: Chrome Paramount

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:31:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Emanuel Lowi" <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOODU34pFHSMr000020ba@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Re: Chrome Paramount

Another popular cycle marque around here in the early 70s was Favorit, a Czech maker.

While most of their cycles were rather ordinary 10 speed tourer/racer style, their high end racing bikes were made with their own butted tubing and a number of their own components. I still see them around town, 30 years later.

Speaking of history, as the Czechs had just finished rebelling against the Soviets a few years earlier, frankly I am more impressed with their efforts at high end cycle manufacture than I am with a huge company like Schwinn, in a USA that was sending landing modules to the Moon at the same time as building Paramounts.

Emanuel Lowi
Montreal, Quebec