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I remember seeing pics of unrestored coppertone Paramount 666...a bit dicey to ride a bike with that serial number ;) Has it been restored? Pics?

Certainly looks consistent with a Paramount between mid-40s to mid-50s. Likely the serial number is/was on the underside of the bottom bracket. Would either be a "P" followed by two or three numbers, or simply three numbers (and if there is no "P", the numbers would be less than the number 599)...

In the meantime....imagine how hard it will be to sleep! (bad road rash on the back makes it hard to lay on one's back; broken collarbone makes it hard to lie on one side; broken ribs make it hard to lay on one's face...some experience at the challenges, unfortunately). So regrettable for his...

Very nice. Indeed, D91 is the latest Paramount in my archives with the first generation downtube decals. The earliest Paramount with the Disneyland decal set that I have records of is B84...between them, it is a mix of 1st generation and Disneyland (there was no definitive cut-off point). I have...

On offer is one complete Weinmann brake lever for tourist bars, plus one partial assembly. These are early-mid 1950s levers, which I believe were original on the earliest Schwinn Jaguar and Corvette...certainly fits others. 22mm bar clamp. Partial lever has some road rash on housing. Has...

Not sure if the issue applies for you, but there are different diameters of shifter cable...the early Campagnolo Record NR/SR shifter cables are something like 1.8mm, while the later (stainless steel, I think) cables are 1.25mm, so they are too thin to use with the Record/NR/SR cable clamps.

A few from the Brown Brothers catalogs, 1939 and 1952....some stems are limper than others...added a picture of one I used to own...

There are two unique items on the first generation Superior...you found one (the fixed cup you are missing) and you have the other (the headset). I don't know of any other frame, Schwinn or otherwise, that has the same fixed cup threading. Fortunately, there is a solution (besides buying another...

I have always felt the most effective drillium would be to drill holes in the water bottle....saves about 600 grams once all the water runs out :)

Available are two BSA bicycle full-line catalogs. One is large fold-out style, one is booklet style. The booklet is from January 1938 and has some discolorations (mainly the outer leaves), but no tears; the foldout style is from October 1938 and is excellent. Both feature Sports, Roadsters...

Outside of my sweet spot as well, but it looks to be mostly intact except the wheelset. The crankset appears to be British-made Williams: marked with a sword and the letters E B W, with a date code below....it looks like the chainring is stamped with a "C" below the sword, which dates as 1915...

Bingo! There must have been a batch of Brambillas shipped to the US in that same general timeframe....I have 2911, and 2920 was on eBay awhile ago (pics attached from the eBay listing (the seller didn't know what it was until I id'ed it for him....the asking price jumped big-time, but I don't...

Actually, Brambilla often used British B.S.A. (as in Birmingham Small Arms) parts (mine has a B.S.A. headset and B.S.A. bottom bracket...both British dimensioned). There seemed to be some simpatico relationship, as even the head badges and decals said B.S.A.

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Notwithstanding the head badge and hubs, the frame has many consistencies with Italian-made Brambilla frames. You might look for a 4 digit number at the top of the seat lug on the non-drive side. Brambillas were imported by Bob Berghino to NYC in the 1930s. If my guess is correct, you might also...

The Paramount tandems from the 1970s had the twin diagonals from the head tube to the rear bottom bracket, while the Town and Country had the single tube fillet brazed between, like on this frame. Plus, I believe the 1970s versions had Campagnolo dropouts, versus the plate dropouts on this...

Interesting. Never seen such a fork. It is distinctive enough that someone out there ought to be able to ID it…if not on this forum, maybe in one geared towards Italian bikes from the 1950s. Would guess the rear dropouts were replaced when the braze-ons were added, as the front dropouts are...

Attached is a pic of the Sutherlands page on bottom bracket markings....hard to tell from the pics, but it seems the drive side cup is 8-sided with one groove...if so, Sutherlands says it is French-threaded.

I am not so knowledgeable about early Continentals or the discussion on the CM designation....but could one possible answer be CM= Chrome Molybdenum? Did the T&C Tandem also use chrome moly tubing? If so, then the overlap of T-serialed shells, T&C frames and Continentals could be the use of...

Depends on 'where' for most...here in the South Carolina Lowcountry, as 10' is considered a hill, and 200' is a climb. The last century I did in April was all in one gear. That said, I have seen several people doing L'Eroica in Italy with a fixed gear (with 20% grades in places)....nobody looks...

For sale is a 1978 Schwinn and Schwinn Approved Bicycle Specifications booklet. 62 pages, not a reproduction or copy. Some discoloration to cover, no marks on pages. May be listed for sale elsewhere, but lower price here and it includes USPS First Class shipping to CONUS.

For sale is a single waterslide down tube "Schwinn Superior" decal for the first generation Schwinn Superior. This would be correct for 1938-45 Superior track and tourist models. Excellent condition, but some yellowing from age. No folds...appears usable, but certainly fragile. Believed to be...

Looks to be an updated and chromed Town and Country...unless the dropouts are actually Campagnolo. They are heavy and handle heavily...and the stoker area is a bit cramped. Not great for two-up touring, but for pottering around town, probably not bad. Looks like a nice bike, regardless. (posted...

The cage length is mainly a response to the combined tooth spread on front and rear cogs (sometimes called 'capacity')....its role is to take up the chain slack...the greater the spread of gears, the longer the cage needs to be to take up more slack. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer...

If you test fit both spindles with the cranks you have (including test fitting a cotter) you likely will find that only the 127mm aligns with the cotters correctly (on the drive side). The crank is likely from a Continental, as it appears to have 1/2" pedal threads and has the extra depth for...

Trek 710 from 1980...19" frameset. Nice condition...almost all Campagnolo GS, which is an unusual group.

Here is a pic of the aforementioned shipping label for that Brewster Green Paramount. The label seems to indicate Brewster green with red and white striping.

I think the serial number makes it a 1979 930 Trek...an excellent frameset. https://www.vintage-trek.com/SerialNumbers.htm

From a reprint 1941 Schwinn Catalog, Superior section:

Sounds like it has two seats and two handlebars and two sets of pedals. No picture? Seriously? Please respect the value of the information you can get from this community with a bit more work on your own part....you likely will get a solid answer from this group with just a couple of decent...

A few illustrations of the crank differences, Superior track versus Continental tourist. (The Superior tourist is the AS&CO type). The lesser-known Superior Club Sports appears to employ the Superior track-type crank.

Track spindle is 122mm total length while Tourist spindle is 127mm. There are also tandem spindles that look similar, but are over 130mm long.

The bottom bracket and axle/spindle is the same for the Paramount and Superior track models, but the cranks are different between track models (and also the cranks on Tourist models are different from the track models, both in design and pedal hole size). Also, the Tourist models had a longer...

I tend to agree with this. A couple of likely factors: because Paramounts were the top of the line, the people who ordered them were likely more inclined to keep and pamper them, and pass them on rather than simply forgetting about them or tossing them when done. The Superior was more likely to...

Careful not to confuse Superior serial sequences with New Worlds...earliest Superiors were B###. Lowest Superior number I've seen is B171.

Curious as to the date on that article....assuming 1950s, given what appears to be Weinmann brakes on the Paramount closest to the camera.

OK, the question of how to tighten/loosen the seat post is answered, but what about the question of 'why in the heck is there a set of bolt bosses on the seat lug that can never be loosened or tightened?' Better rearward weight distribution? Heavy attachment point for a center pull cable stop or...

I have an admission to make, which may make me a pariah in the future...if the next generation has the patience and passion to try to figure out the dates and times and iterations of Campagnolo parts in, say, 2033 (the centennial of Campagnolo's going into business). 1) I have a Campagnolo...

'Campagnolo' above and '9/16 x 20F' below is typical/standard for all 3rd generation 151 bcd cranks from 1962-1967. The first gen 144bcd cranks in 1966-67 have just the threading stamped below with nothing above the hole, and the typical 144bcd cranks after 1967-ish have the threading above the...

For reference/comparison, an earlier iteration G. Stucchi city bike that I used to have: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51061132@N08/albums/72157668184288520

In Italian, “F” would be “filettatura”. =“threading”. Those arms are British threaded. French would be 14mm x 1.25mm. The crankarm end you illustrate would fill the gap in the attached picture, left to right: 1st generation Record 151bcd with raised pedal hole (rear dust cap is missing on this...

Indeed, those windowed lugs are not just American...as an example, they are also on my Italian-made Brambilla (maybe even a product of a young Sante Pogliaghi) imported by Bob Berghino in NY in the 1930s.

See the comparison of head badges attached. Drysdale called the company Velox, and then had a model called Velox...(a bit confusing, like the New Wave band Talk Talk, which had a song called Talk Talk). The other tell is the round fork blades on the Red Devil, versus the D-shaped ones on the Velox.

Drysdale Red Devil...1930s, built by Alvin Drysdale/Velox Bicycles in New York City. Fair amount of info online.....a nice find! https://www.ebykr.com/drysdale-mid-century-mystery/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/8379107@N03/albums/72157680620458723/

The track Paramount with serial number P186 falls into the immediate post-WWII period. There is very little firm info that could narrow it from the 1947-1950 range, unfortunately. The other two will test people's willingness to affirm them as Paramounts as opposed to Wastyns. The lug pattern on...

Has all the hallmarks of a post-WWII Paramount, but for the seat stay caps. Two possibilities: it was not unheard of for seat stay caps to detach...possibly a repair that added a bit of a flourish? Or second, the transition from ball-end to flat angled seat stay caps occurred in that postwar...

Curious for input from y'all.....all the early dropout New World frames I have seen (virtually) have "C" serial numbers....is that accurate from others' experience? Seems sorta logical that the early Paramounts were "A" serials, Superiors were "B" serials, and then New World were "C" serials...

Not specifically. There is a specific order of iterations, but fixing the specific date of any one iteration is not generally in the cards. The Velo-Retro timeline gives pretty good guidelines for the introduction of each iteration, but it is also true that any one iteration could have been...

FWIW, the Pino skewers sometimes show up on eBay listed as "American Classic" skewers....if that helps you score a pair for that terrific road bike.

Being the one that sold that hub to Jesper, I will state from my close inspection of this hub, the barrel was never chromed. It came to me in the very good condition that it still is in today. If you look at all the old catalogs, there are a few different part numbers for similar hubs...