My 1965 Paramount has the cable routing that Jerry describes. Sort of nice: never catches skin, and the cable stops are split, so it is easy to grease the cables w/o pulling the cable hanger off. harvey sachs mcLean va.
Tom, are you referring to the supposed 1964 on eBay someone outed earlier? In the less than clear photos, it appears to me this one has front and rear brazeon cable housing stops on the bottom side of the top tube, but biased toward the right side, with bare cable between the stops. This was common on early 70's French bikes including Follis and LeJeune, but I've never seen it on Paramount. I don't have a lot of experience with early 60's Paramounts, but the decals look essentially identical to those on my three early/mid 70's Paramounts. I would have expected more change in the decals in 10 years. One thing to ask is the BCD on that crank. It looks like Nuovo Record, but in 1964 should be an older 151 BCD Record. Can't tell from the photos.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
I am looking at a Paramount from the early '60s. It seems to have no top tube cable guides, but the cable is biased (somehow) toward the non drive side of the top tube and a hanger by the seat guides the cable...I sure am not familiar with anything like this from the '70s and '80s Paramounts I have owned...is this Kosher for such a bike? Might anyone have some clear photos of correct cable routing on Paramounts of this period that they could send me off list or provide links to? This is an expensive bike and I am going to have to lay out some serious cash to buy it...it just has to be right...I have only seen some not very clear photos of the bike in question.
HELP!
Tom Sanders
Floundering a bit in,
Lansing, Mi