My chromed 70's racing frames don't feel any lighter than my tourer. A couple of 80's models including a 50th Anniversary are lighter, but the 50th Anniversary, at least, is Columbus. Don't own a track Paramount, so I can't say about them.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, Texas, USA
David Bean <beandk@rcn.com> wrote: A recent thread reported that Schwinn used the heaviest gauge 531 in Paramount frames. That confirms what my hand tells me when I lift my '69. Are the racing (rather than touring) models built with the same tubes? The track model? Impossible to generalize?
David Bean
Arlington, MA USA
beandk at are-see-enn dot com