Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Classic Schwinn Aluminum Bicycle Group
In the late 80's to early 90's Schwinn decided as a last ditch effort  to make an "affordable" high performance racing road bicycle (lower priced alternative to Paramount Elite group). Licensing  several patents - welding techniques and frame building ideas from Klein  Bicycle Corp(Gary Klein was MIT graduate who was the first to produce a  light weight aluminum oversize tubing for bicycle frames) the Schwinn  PDG Aluminum was born! PDG (Paramount Design Group) was the high end  Schwinn race engineering and design division in charge of those amazing  racing frames that made Schwinn and Paramount famous for decades and PDG  was put in charge of making designing the glorious valkyries of  aluminum and passion (the PDG aluminum bikes), at least to me. Side note  (Some of the original Paramount design group are still around today AKA  waterford bicycle company - http://waterfordbikes.com and it's still  associated with the Schwinn family)  Even if the original Schwinn bicycle name is not owned, operated or even  associated with the Schwinn family (Schwinn and Paramount name was sold  to Dorel an Asian bicycle conglomerate), at least these aluminum speed  beasts lives on if only facebook and this blog and some caring owners hands! If you  have any of these "cool" and "unique" bicycles please come a share  pictures, stories and the "love"!
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