50th Anniversary Schwinn Paramount

I tried building this bike with full Shimano Dura Ace AX gruppo but I was limiting the build to 6 speeds only since the AX group is an indexed 6 speed and no matter how good your friction shifting is, the rear deraileur would index into one of those 6 grooves of the RD. Since this is a 1988 Paramount with Shimano dropouts, I decided to go with Dura Ace 7410 stuff. Although the 8 speed DA was officially released in 1989, prototypes of the DA 8 were used in the 1988 Giro D'Italia. The highlight of this project is probably the rare SP-7410 black Dura Ace seatpost and the Dura Ace handlebar.
Black Paramounts with gold plated forks are 1 of the 500 limited edition from the 1400 that were made for the Anniversary year. There are red ones too from the 500.




50/39 x 12-13-14-15-16-17-21-25





Columbus SLX Tubing





crappy pics for now until I can figure out how to take pics like this

Tim Isaac's Interview