The one I wish I kept - a 1970something San Rensho track bike. It was metallic green, kinda like Schwinn Sting Ray green. I bought it from my boss at the bike shop when I was a sophmore in high school. He bought it new in New York City and it hung on the shop wall for years. He raced it twice at the Lehigh County Velodrome before acquiring a nymphomaniac girlfriend. I sold it because I wasn't using it. What an IDIOT!!! Why can't I have that philosophy with all the other junk laying around?! I remember how gorgeous that Superbe Pro track group was.
WOW, that was painful.
Don Andersen (Sobbing in Maryland) >> Don Wipe the tears and head over to see a nice possibly-70's pearl white 3Rensho track bike I'm no longer using. It, too, is in Maryland. What's not is my original p13 I bought for $260 new in '72 while slaving building Varsities during Bike Boom Uno.
Black, Full nuovo, Regina Oro, Chrome Nervex Pro lugs, DelMondo's and the $28 optional NR brakeset, 49/52, 14/16/18/21/24 Oro. I remember everything about it, especially the joke the shop owners played on my pretending it was a Varsity I had to build as they forced me in to the 108 degree warehouse to fetch it.
What a surprise when I saw the staples in the carton. All the other Schwinns had glued boxes. It was the first Paramount that came through the shop.
Needless to say, it was the last bike I built that day, and I was usually cranking out 20 plus, including the Hunt-Wilde plastic tape and chrome plugs on each. In those days, were were lucky to have the tires on the rims in their 'pre-assembly' Yes, I did install the stock Hunt-wilde plastic on the p13
Larry 'looking back' Black