Originally Posted by
sbuckaroo
Do you collect vintage bikes as well? The Schwinn paramount was my first foray into this amazing realm.
Nope. I just liked the looks of them with their skinny tubes. Although the Paramount I think was a OS version or something they were experimenting with slightly different tube sizes. I'm out of the old bike game. I just got rid of my '78 Raleigh comp GS that was also a very fun ride and pretty bike but also heavy like the Paramount at 22.5 to 23 lbs.
For the hills around me and my age getting older, I just didn't need to be carrying around those extra five to six pounds those bikes had over newer bikes. My 17.5 pound Tarmac has made some hills disappear altogether on my routes and others that I use to do embarrassingly slow I now pass others quite easily on.