Schwinn Paramount Racer
Only American Factory-Built Racing Machine Aacceptable to Professional Racers

Standard-bearer of the Schwinn-Built Lightweight line-the finest bicycle of its type that money can buy! The Paramount Racer is built like a fine watch; yet so precisely are the fault-less parts made and fitted together, that these "jeweled" bicycles stand up unscathed for hour after hour of relentles sspeed under the most powerful riders in the world. More than half of today's 6-day bike racers, professionals whose earnings depend largely on the bicycles they ride, have discarded foreign models in favor of Schwinn Paramounts.

FRAME: Designed for greatest responsiveness, for easiest, quickest steering. Finest Chrome-Molybdenum seamless drawn, double butted tubing. Double butted, by a special process that gives extra thickness where needed for greatest strength, without sacrifice of light weight. Frame lugs are finest quality cutaway to further reduce weight. Sizes, 21 and 22 inches.

FORK: Latest racing design. Double tapered Chrome-Molybdenum seamless drawn tubing. Drop forged crown and fork ends of Chrome-Molybdenum.

TIRES: Optional: Hutchinson Rood Tubulars on Schwinn Paramount laminated wood rims. Or, Dunlop special high pressure road racing tire on Dunlop Endrick type high pressure rim. Either tire 27x] 1/4"actual cross section, 1 1/16".

CRANK HANGER SET: Schwinn Paramount. Three-piece cottered type.Cranks forged from Chrome-Molybdenum steel. Spider drop forged integral with right crank. Axles and cups turned from magnetically tested manganese steel. All ball paths precision ground. Pedal sprocket, thickened offset edge. Teeth cut on special generating machines. 1" pitch, three-point fastening.

HUBS: SCHWINN PARAMOUNT. New design. Shells, axles and cones turned from magnetically tested manganese steels. Threadless cones honed to suction fit on axles giving perfect concentricity and alignment, never before achieved on a bicycle hub. Fixed adjustment by lock nut. All ball races precision ground. Rear hub fixed cog. Large flanges of drop forged Dural.

HANDLEBAR. Goullet racing type. Highly polished, chromium finished, seamless steel tubing.

HANDLEBAR STEM: Schwinn Paramount racing type; best seamless drawn steel tubing with rounded ends to minimize injury. Clamp is Dural, a heat-treated Schwinn aluminum drop forging, extra strong and extremely light.

GRIPS. Schwinn racing. Long tight-fitting with cushion end; also upper sleeve for rest position.

HEAD FITTINGS: Thrust bearing type, turned from high grade bar steel.

SADDLE. Brooks, B17 narrow.

PEDALS: New Torrington racing. Latest Continental type. Chain Adjusters: Latest approved Continental type.

FINISH AND TRIM: All steel parts heavily chromium plated and highly polished. Dural parts highly polished. Frames and forks, multicoat, finest enamels, hand-rubbed. Colors: Ivory, Red, Medium Blue or Black; with hairlinestriping.

WEIGHT: As illustrated, with Hutchinson tires and wood rims-  20 pounds.

WHEELBASE: 401/4 inches.