1988 Schwinn Paramount bicycle Rebuild. GOLD PLATED PARTS 50th anniversary edition 

Wow some sweet steeds in there

Beautiful.

That's not a bike garage, that's an art gallery...

In late 80’s built a Vitus 979 with first generation C Record. Certainly the prettiest group set ever made…however the earlier Nuovo Record remains my most nostalgic times!( from my road racing 1970’s). Never seen this gold anodising before now. Stunning. Thank you

Great video and great bike. Gardin was a Italian born, Toronto bike guy, a bit of a recap here if you're interested along with a bike with similar coloured Campy parts. You can see a post about Gardin here at a Toronto bike store, called mariposabicycles, can't direct link so you'll have to google it. My first and only road bike was a Gardin Ultima which is sitting in my basement after I had a derailleur incident bending the hanger. Always wanted to rebuild it but no money or time.

I love this bike!! Congratulations

The higher the quality bearing races can be adjusted too tight by the smooth adjustment procedure . I find adjusting them till side play is gone to be better especially in ball bearing headsets. Try it both ways to find the sweet spot. 54 yrs experience racing and multiple years working in high end bike shops I learned many lessons. Some easy some the hard way .

Man that bike is BEAU-T-FULL , Needs the summer sun shining on that gold . Do fizik make gold shoes 😂

Stunning ❤❤

remember seein those in the catalog. always wanted and drooled on.

I used to work in an electroplating shop. That coloration could be any number of things. They could have antiqued that part, which doesn't seem likely because it wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the plating. It could be that the gold finish came off, because certain plates, like gold and silver, and incredibly thin. They're only cosmetic, so they only spend a few moments to minutes in the gold bath. The highest content of a gold bath is 23k. It could be as simple as oxidation. You might wonder if it is oxidation, then why not the other plated parts? That could also be a couple things. They might not have adequately activated the base metal when going through the plating process. Almost everything gold or silver plated has first been nickel plated or nickel activated. You have to mess with the atoms in metal to make it more conductive etc, because plating is all about chemistry and electricity. You have to prepare the base metal to be plated. Another possibility is that the base metal might be leeching through the plating, then reacting with the plating and air, turning it black or a different color. The gold plating is so thinly applied that it could have also basically fallen off, and what you're seeing is the nickel, or nickel activation, oxidizing. Really, there isn't too much you can do about it. You can polish it, but be very careful. You can't ruin the base metal, but it would be easy to polish off the microns of gold plate.

when you grabbed the adjuster pin with the needlenose pliars my heart sunk thia is the libarcie of bikes buddy be carrrrrrrrrrrrrrrefuuuuuuuuuuuulll lol

I have an 1989 Rossin that came with the same group set but not in gold. Never could get the rear derailleur to shift well. Alberto replaced the group set with the Campy Racing Triple. Bike stills shifts and rides well to this day.

Cool bike, thanks for the video. Shimano AX brakes are also a pita to adjust.

Enjoy watching your videos John! I share your love of Classic/Vintage road bikes. I have a 1987 Schwinn Super Sport in white/magenta that I have been restoring and modifying with much help from the Bike Forum members. I was wondering if you have any Super Sports in your collection.

"Running out of room" = exactly why I never took up the collection thing, but I can live it through you, so thanks! Used to work for a guy who was a wizard at setting up Delta brakes but it was one of the (few) things he never taught me. All those old Modolo stems are suspect IMHO, dunno how hard I'd lean on it out on the road but looks very nice on the wall. Compliments!

Cara suas bikes todas são muito lindas ❤

What a dream.

Great video! I love building up frames, very slowly and carefully. I'm glad you got that frame repaired and that beautiful Campus Green 72 done while Waterford was still there to do it. P.S. - I have a similar 531 shirt, one of two I bought through Bike Forums Classic and Vintage many years ago, mine has the Reynolds decal in English.

Es hermosa, Is beautiful bike.

Campanutella!!!

When I rode Syncro, we called it Stincro. I dont think I was ever able to get it working proper and just ran it in friction mode. I think bikes across the ceiling would look cluttered.

Great video and a fabulous bike! In regards to the modolo stem, I believe the issue was with the Professional model. Measure the width of the stem near the underside clamping bolt, use a caliper, the ones that were recalled (IIRC) were narrow maybe 5/8” or 3/4” and the ther should be a ridge or spine running down the underside of the stem. The replacements the width is closer to 1-1/8” and no ridge (they filled in alongside the ridge to increase thickness and strength. I always loved those stems bc they were so good looking, but, they are heavy as hell (at least the replacements were. On the shifter, make sure the synchro gear is properly placed, I don’t remember if those derailleurs had a B screw adjustment, if not that’s what those axle alignment screws are for Finally you did a really nice job setting up the delta brakes! I struggled like hell the first time. At some point (there were several generations of the Deltas) Campagnolo offered a guide hook that fit on the seat binder bolt over the center of the seat tube so that the brake cable entered the top of the brake vertically instead of at a bit of an angle.

Great job, John! I always enjoy your videos. Keep posting in the CR list when you post a new video - I don't always check my RU-vid subscriptions. :)

There were different shifter inserts depending on which freewheel you are using. I had the Croce d'Aune set. I noticed some of the professional riders used that Derailleur with their C Record group. My guess is that the C Record never adapter well to indexing. I used a Shimano freewheel as I figured they were the kings of indexing. You can always run it on friction.

the man

That Paramount is obscenely beautiful but I don't do wall hangers. Don't get me wrong, I have very many bikes. I can only ride one at a time. I ride my museum quality restorations. I sell the ones that I don't need and occasionally donate one to someone who loves vintage bikes but cannot afford one.

If you're running out of room, any of those bikes would fit me.

Also some of those modollo stems were recalled for breaking

I find using a drop of superglue on the end of a not too badly frayed cable works for me. Love the tee shirt where did you get it please 👍

hey John I've been following you for a while Love all your vid's I have 14 mid 70's Schwinns at the moment I love them all .....they are all riders. today I just aquired what I think is a 1964 Varisity "Spirit" it is all original except the rear derailleur it's SN is C444471 and the down tube has a registration sticker from 1964

John do you have a bike in your collection with the 50th CAMPAGNOLO anniversary edition groupset ?

and the gold platting wont last long but the anodizing will out live us both lol

Move the cars out. Great build.

Greetings: Do you have the Schwinn blood line,,,,, paramount, Chicago, prologue, Madison, etc, etc, What was the top of line to the low end of the line….Any clarification is greatly appreciated…..

I ran Campy until Shimano came out with indexing..CAMPY lost a lot of street cred when it took years to get close to Shimano's shifting...

i see so many spots in there to hand bikes i can get at least 100 more in there and you know a latin king is going to have to have that new bike for the bling send it south to me for safe keeping lol

I was going to ask, but then I saw that you glued on Veloflex tubs. I love those C Record hubs. Is there any truth about Campy making their 7 speed, freewheel hubs, with 130mm spacing, instead of 126mm, so that there would keep the rim more central?? I saw something 15 to 20 years ago, that said that. PS. I have a plain C Record rear derailleur, without the indexing adjuster, but with the Campy stamping. I thought that the second generation didn't have the stamping, and just said Campagnolo on it. (but my memory might be failing) PSS. I never worked with Syncro. I have some 8 speed Record shifters (somewhere), that always worked well, but you always had to set them up to fall right into gear, as you went from big cog to small cog, and then you had to overshift and release a little, to get the chain to snap onto the larger cog, from the smaller ones. (a little like friction shifting)

The cage looks case hardened. Man, you're stingy with the grease on these bearings. How comes?

I'm rebuilding a Schwinn Voyageur, also with too short a bottom bracket spindle. I was wondering if maybe the bearings had loosened up and caused excess play or something, but your video just gave me a nice sanity check!