In a message dated 9/19/2004 11:18:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, steve@sburl.com writes:
<< I have 4 sets of Paramount wheels that I
believe are original to bikes manufactured between '72 and '74 and they all
have the standard Mavic foil decals, as did the '72 that I bought new the
first year I worked in a "real" shop, and every other Paramount that I
recall from those years. Other rims may have been used as supplies dictated,
but the standard Mavics were certainly found on many new Paramounts in the
early '70s. Catalog listings are not a reliable substitute for observation.
>>
Interesting because I sold Paramounts in the period from late 1972 until 1974 and I was pretty sure I remembered only Super Champions with Weinmann as an option.. . I think there was even a Schwinn Approved -made by Super Champion decal. We thought they were Arc en Ciels.. Even the weights exactly correlated with the SC models...But if you bought those bikes new yourself as complete bikes I guess I must be wrong.
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC