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I purchased my Paramount in the North Park area of San Diego on June 30, 2007 from an ad on Craigs List for 50 with a Nishiki Olympic mixte frame 12 speed bike.

Bicycles are wonderfully simple, eloquent and efficient machines.

Many older bikes are still quite useable and still satisfy the casual recreational user.

Indeed, many well-made used bikes are much better than some department store bikes today.

The bikes here are grouped here into six, somewhat arbitrary, categories.

The road bicycles are the museums largest category and are divided by manufacturer, with first U.S.

Schwinn, Trek, and Raleigh America), then Italian (Bianchi), French (Peugeot, Motobecane and Roold), Japanese (Nishiki, Fuji, Kuwahara, and Univega), and Taiwanese (Giant).

Univega was headquartered in the United States with bicycles made in Italy and then Japan.

Finally, no matter where a company is headquartered, the majority of bikes today are made in China.

The modern mountain bike had its origins in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Racers were reasonably efficient, sturdy, utilitarian machines that were heavier than road bikes and were not really racers.

While the English company Raliegh (and related companies) made many of these bikes, not all English racers are English.

With recumbent bikes, the rider sits lower and leans back in a more prone position resulting in less aerodynamic drag.

Many bike models cater especially to kids, however, or to the inner child of adults.

Even more than with adult bikes, sometimes the looks and style of kids bikes take a back seat to functional design.

In the early 1960s, however, Schwinn came out with the Stingray with small 20 inch diameter wheels, high handlebars and a banana seat.

The name played off muscle cars at the time and the bikes had a look of a chopper motorcycle.

Eventually, the Stingray evolved into the BMX bike with somewhat shorter handlebars, a single saddle, and beefy rims.

BMX bikes are used for dirt racing, jumps and tricks.

Today, beach cruisers are the craze for both adults and kids creating a look and feel of the old balloon tire bikes of the 1930s through 1950s.

Modified cruisers were also used for the first Mountain bikes in the late 1970s.

Unfortunately, a cruiser is an efficient design for a bike whether on or off the road.

Besides being fun and great exercise, they use no gasoline, do not contribute to global warming and do not pollute.

Their manufacture and maintenance, of course, does contribute to pollution and global warming, however.) Click on a category below, and pedal off to a great adventure.

Waterfordbikes.com has an excellent discussion of the history of Paramount bikes from their start in 1938 until the bankruptcy in 1993 of the original Schwinn company founded in 1895.

See Schwinn Timeline.) Schwinn today is part of Pacific Cycle.

While Schwinn often had a reputation for building heavy bikes for kids, the Paramount line had a reputation for finely crafted, relatively light road bikes.

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