1938 Schwinn Paramount Track Vintage - $1500 (berkeley)

[cyclingday]

20lbs.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

my Lemond weighs 20 lbs with gears and brakes and everything!

 

[cyclingday]

My fully equipped carbon Trek weighs 14lbs.
But, for 1938, a 20lb Paramount was considered pretty light.

 

[corbettclassics]

My fully equipped carbon Trek weighs 14lbs.
But, for 1938, a 20lb Paramount was considered pretty light.

And it's amazing too that in the 1890's they were building racers as light as 13lbs..!!!

 

[cyclingday]

That is amazing, especially, since for the most part, the material being used was all steel.
Steel is real!
Carbon Fiber= Fake Bike!
Just kidding, the Carbon bikes took over the industry like wild fire, but it is interesting, that they could build a bike just as light clear back at the advent of the bicycle.

 

[49autocycledeluxe]

Carbon must be made with helium for a bike to weigh only 14 pounds! my bike is Reynolds 853 steel. last of the steel Lemond bikes.