> At any rate, I'm pleased with the conversion. I'll bet you are! Very good job. Mr. Schwinn looks right handsome in his Riv clothes.
> This isn't strictly speaking a Rivendell content post, but I think it > has some relationship to the type of bikes that Rivendell is building, > especially the AHH and Sam Hillborne models. I imagine anyone in Grant's generation with a hankering for bikes at one time or another spent some time admiring a Paramount. On Aug 10, 8:39 pm, Jim Cloud <cloud...@aol.com> wrote: > I had a post, a while back, regarding questions about the Rivendell > Silver/Tektro R556 brakes, in regard to a 700c conversion that I was > considering for an older Schwinn Paramount 27" wheel size bicycle. > This isn't strictly speaking a Rivendell content post, but I think it > has some relationship to the type of bikes that Rivendell is building, > especially the AHH and Sam Hillborne models. In fact, one of the > photos on the Flickr website of Rivendell staff bikes got me thinking > about the conversion (it was a photo of a AHH, nice blue color very > much like this Paramount). > > At any rate, I'm pleased with the conversion. The Tektro R556 brakes, > which were originally spec'd by Grant for his Country Bikes are a > godsend for a 700c conversion from a 27" wheel size. The brakes work > very well, with ample clearances to fit larger wheel sizes and > fenders. My Paramount is presently fenderless (and may stay that way, > given the relative dryness of the Arizona climate) and it's presently > fitted up with a 700x28c tire size (Panaracer Pasela) simply because I > had those available from my personal stock. I'm planning to fit the > bike with the Rivendell Jack Brown Green tires, which I think are > about as wide as I'd like to go with Mavic MA2 rims. > > I posted some photos of this bike on my Flickr photostream, if you're > interested: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/37964...@n05/sets/72157624699133170/ > > Jim Cloud > Tucson, AZ . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
