fiataccompli

I'm considering adding this to my list of potential bikes for which to find new homes. It's a 1975 Schwinn Paramount P13. I suppose these are pretty complete pictures. Is $1000 too much? too little? the wheels are clinchers,btw.

wrk101

zukahn1 

Great looking frame set chrome paint looks to be original and very good but are very nice repaint if not for the slightly misplaced graphics you couldn't see it I wouldn't have issues with this quality vintage repaint if everything else was correct. Which is a bit of a mismatch for the parts most of which are mostly wrong and bit below original in quality I would say half the asking on a local sale and $800 parted..

fiataccompli

thanks for the feedback. I thought that the graphics are original. It was presented to me without a lot of background data, but belonged to someone who had owned it forever and I think was of the mind to try to keep functional & a nice bike but with no interest in "original" or "show" if that makes sense...well, hell, I guess it shows this.

I suppose I need to do some research, but I has thought that there is no such thing as original equipment for one of these because they were typically sold as frames & built by a shop, maybe with a typical built kit, but nothing specified. I'm incorrect on that, yes? I need to re-check, but I guess the shifters are not the campy NR match, levers are what most people who were riding not restoring would have swapped to some time in the 1980s, but I thought the rest probably had been on the bike since new. interesting.

Sounds like fleabay (which is probably what I'd do because I have had very little luck with finding serious interest here in bikes & it's a bit off from the usual fare of what I would buy or sell at Paceline)...craigslist is mostly pointless unless I like to talk to crazy people and have offers of $100 for it.

zukahn1 

P12-13 were typically built to order they would put nearly anything in the Schwinn / Campy/ or Suntour parts catalogs if you asked for it and would pay a bit extra.

xiaoman1 

I am no expert but the only Suntour equipment that I have ever seen was the RD, Weinman brakes etc. otherwise all Campagnolo as far as I remember or "Schwinn approved".
RD is newer Campy and seat and pedals are not specific to Paramount.
If you are buying I would think 500 to max 700
500 to 700 max on CL if lucky.
Fleabay about maybe 800 but factor % back to PP and Fb as well as sellers time to pack etc.
Best, Ben

Metacortex

That's a negative, at least from the factory. They were built at the factory with a very specific list of options, no substitutions allowed. A dealer however could change anything the customer wanted after the fact. The OP's bike is a '75, but here is the '76 order form. See where it says "Please Note: Only the options listed in this order form can be supplied as stated for each model". This was the same for most of the '60s and all of the '70s:

fiataccompli

Kactus

Those decals look correct to me. https://re-cycle.com/images/Schwinn/1975cat/12-13.jpg