One more tidbit -
Once was offered an old "Schwinn Paramount" road bike, but it didn't look right. The seller had found it abanded by the roadside. It was rather complete, but it was certainly very ugly and he found it in a very exclusive area - certainly someone could have mistaken it for a junky 10sp and thrown it out.
Turns out the frame was a Rene Herse - so not every misrepresentation is malicious or a bad one. The bike probably had been painted appropriately for someone's Schwinn race team of the day and then forgotten about.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO USA.
> Thing that makes me think not-Schwinn, though, is that semi-wrapover seatstay
\r?\n> attachment. The 60s Paramounts I've seen all have the smaller oval chamfered
\r?\n> caps (vs. the larger 70s version).
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\r?\n> Ed Granger
\r?\n> Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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\r?\n> Marc,
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\r?\n> Those who have had a closer look are saying Schwinn from the early 60's.
\r?\n> If the domed stay ends are kind of blobbed into the dropouts as opposed
\r?\n> to a clean domed junction; then it's probably a Schwinn. Has anyone con
\r?\n> firmed what the threading is of the BB shell?? That would be a certain k
\r?\n> iller for the deal. There's no question the graphics aren't even close t
\r?\n> o correct, no matter what is is.
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\r?\n> Brian Baylis
\r?\n> La Mesa, CA