Road Test/Bike Review (1992) SCHWINN Paramount Team (mtb)
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Road Test/Bike Review (1992) SCHWINN Paramount Team (mtb)
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Thanks. It's great to get more details on these classics. I have two '92 Series 90 PDGs and I agree with everything the reviewer said. I bought the first one for my wife to use as a gravel bike about a decade ago. It is pristine, and is setup with smooth tires, so it doesn't go out on the trail. It has its original Suntour XC-Pro MicroDrive components (full GreaseGuard), and an 11-24 7-speed cassette, which was the widest range offered for this group! The idea was that the inner granny BCD would allow a chainring as small as 20 teeth, and a 1:1 bottom gear was pretty standard at that time, so a 20 x 24 was considered plenty low enough for a race bike.
I liked the handling of her bike so much that when I stumbled across a heavily modified and battle-scarred example in my size, I snapped it up. It helped that it was being sold cheap. This one has a wild, AMP Technologies articulated fork, and the first generation Hayes disk brakes, retrofitted to the formerly cantilever-equipped frame. It all works just fine, even with the change in the geometry resulting from the taller fork. It even has SRAM twist-grip shifting, for a total blast to the past!
I liked the handling of her bike so much that when I stumbled across a heavily modified and battle-scarred example in my size, I snapped it up. It helped that it was being sold cheap. This one has a wild, AMP Technologies articulated fork, and the first generation Hayes disk brakes, retrofitted to the formerly cantilever-equipped frame. It all works just fine, even with the change in the geometry resulting from the taller fork. It even has SRAM twist-grip shifting, for a total blast to the past!
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very nice article and great MTB
thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing
04-02-23, 12:01 PM
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SpeedofLite Long time reader, first time caller 
I know you've probably explained this a million times, but where are all these magazine articles from? Personal collection over the years, or...?
I know you've probably explained this a million times, but where are all these magazine articles from? Personal collection over the years, or...?
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SpeedofLite Long time reader, first time caller
I know you've probably explained this a million times, but where are all these magazine articles from? Personal collection over the years, or...?
I know you've probably explained this a million times, but where are all these magazine articles from? Personal collection over the years, or...?
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I nominate @SpeedofLite for a Nobel Bike Peace Prize.
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I nominate @SpeedofLite for a Nobel Bike Peace Prize.
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I'd believe it! Disc brakes and suspension add a lot of weight to modern mountain bikes, so we hardly expect a mountain bike could weigh that, I know. That bike in the article is basically a fenderless, rackless wide-tired racing bike with decently high-end components. Naturally it would weigh that!
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04-02-23, 02:36 PM
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No, it wasn't using disc brakes which are unnecessary weight and not better than vbrakes, along with crossmax tubless wheels , pretty sure it would be even less than 22lbs.It is a triple butted tubing frameset, a weight weenie,almost in the titanium territory. Just build a high end Vbrake mountain bike and you can be inthe 9.5-10.4 kilos category,very easily
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sweet bikes
that bike and similar bikes are relatively easy to get around the 20 lb mark with some parts swaps
smaller / lighter tires / tubes, different cassette, pedals, Ti bottom bracket, lightweight bar, seatpost, seat etc etc
that bike and similar bikes are relatively easy to get around the 20 lb mark with some parts swaps
smaller / lighter tires / tubes, different cassette, pedals, Ti bottom bracket, lightweight bar, seatpost, seat etc etc
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we have PDG70 (mrs t2p bike) and a PDG90 (currently in slow build mode)
also have a TIG’d PDG70
a few friends also had or still have their PDG70’s and PDG90’s ... and later RS80’s
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