Originally Posted by
ollo_ollo
It's all relative: as in "Schwinn Super Sport" Don
"Super" was appropriate in describing the gross sporting improvement (geometry esp) over the next-level electro-forged bikes like the Varsity/Continental.
But the Super Sport moniker would seem to have been borrowed from American muscle-car marketing as I see it.
And I can dig how Peugeot purloined the term (for the 1979 model year) when they finally upgraded their U09 frameset geometry and tubing, as the changes were Super in terms of sporting performance.