In a message dated 1/5/2003 12:27:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com writes:
<< all-Campagnolo Schwinn Paramount. He was employed by a Schwinn shop, and, as a goof, he sent is frame back to Chicago and had it painted and decaled as a Varsity, in that light powder blue that was so common. I nearly broke my neck doing a double take when I first saw it! At first glance, I thought, "gee, that Varsity seems to have thicker tubing"...then I looked closer and saw the Nervex lugs... >>
Back in the late 1970s, a bunch of shop guys at the Cardinal Bike Shop in Roanoke, Va. routinely traveled an hour or so to participate in my club's century rides (We are sorta famous for putting on all kinds of events) Two or three of those riders had new Paramounts that they had applied Varsity decal sets on! What great fun they had watching people do double takes!
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina