RE: [CR]Paramount experts to the fore!

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: "Scott L. Minneman" <minneman@onomy.com>
To: <hersefan@comcast.net>, "'gear@grego'" <gear@xmission.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Paramount experts to the fore!
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 22:57:47 -0700
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Not sure about the tulips, but unless each one means to subtract a year from the apparent year of manufacture, then the original owner was all wet. The serial number says that the bike was built in June, 1975.

Not an expert, though...maybe there's something to my tulip hypothesis.

Scott Minneman in San Francisco, CA

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of hersefan@comcast.net Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 10:13 PM To: gear@grego; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Paramount experts to the fore!

No Paramounts were built in the Waterford facility in the early-mid 70's as it didn't exist then - I'm not up on my Paramount history, but Waterford I think was set up very late 70's or early 80's.

Now, there were some Paramounts during the bike boom years that were built off site on contract, but that is a different story.

Mike Kone in Boulder CO


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From: "gear@grego"


> Hi all,

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Was in a friend's bike shop today, and saw a nice Paramount track bike

\r?\n> sitting in the back. It's way too big for me, but I asked anyway, as we

\r?\n> all would.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> He told me that it was built in 1973, in Chicago and that it was one of

\r?\n> only ten Paramount tracks bikes built there instead of the Waterford

\r?\n> facility. The only serial number I could find was on a dropout, and is F

\r?\n> 7541.

\r?\n> On the bottom of the bb shell are two identical stamps that resemble,

\r?\n> for lack of a better description, tulips. These are about the size of

\r?\n> the usual serial number characters (maybe 1 cm or a bit smaller).

\r?\n>

\r?\n> The owner has had this bike since the early 80's and bought it from the

\r?\n> original owner who gave him the provenance.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Could there be something to this apparently rare bike? Is it a rare

\r?\n> bike? I don't want to break the heart of a fellow bike owner, but I'm

\r?\n> curious nonetheless.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Thanks!

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Greg Overton

\r?\n> now looking at bikes that don't even fit in

\r?\n> Salt Lake City, Utah