Now that's one in my wished-I-had-owned category. Back in the early 70's when my parents went back to Czechoslovakia, I gave them strict specifics about trying to get me a 531 tubed bike shipped back over. Unfortunately, dad ended up dealing with some party apparatchik who really couldn't see why he should be bothered to bring some western currency into the country, and ended up dropping the entire project.
Someday, once I've got a bit more spare cash and the current two projects are finished, I'll start looking for one.
By the way, I copied the original note to my wife (25 years living in Montreal between two husbands), and her ex- (native Quebecois, emigrated and now a citizen). Both were amused by the attitude.
George R. "Syke" Paczolt Montpelier, VA
classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:31:57 -0500 (EST) From: Emanuel Lowi <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Re: Chrome Paramount Message-ID: <20060224183157.88881.qmail@web50515.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOODU34pFHSMr000020ba@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list Message: 7
Another popular cycle marque around here in the early 70s was Favorit, a Czech maker.
While most of their cycles were rather ordinary 10 speed tourer/racer style, their high end racing bikes were made with their own butted tubing and a number of their own components. I still see them around town, 30 years later.
Speaking of history, as the Czechs had just finished rebelling against the Soviets a few years earlier, frankly I am more impressed with their efforts at high end cycle manufacture than I am with a huge company like Schwinn, in a USA that was sending landing modules to the Moon at the same time as building Paramounts.
Emanuel Lowi Montreal, Quebec
Syke Deranged Few M/C
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