new road bike!

[lovebunny]

well sorta....its new for me. its a centurion. i dont know anything bout road bikes. does anyone know about it? its turquise and white. and its friggin fast. oh yeah and it has biopace rings! ive only ever seen one other set of those in my whole life.

[Serial Midget]

Centurians were moderately priced bikes popular with budget minded triathletes in the mid to late 80s. Biopace was a fad, a bad fad. A bad, bad that made Jesus sad. :D

Now go race an old roadie up a hill. :thumb:

[Enginerd A2]

I've got a Centurion, too. It's a red and white Dave Scott Ironman Expert. Lugged steel and full 105 grouppo, with downtube shifters unfortunately. Not super light or flashy, but every bit as fast as those guys on nicer bikes. I did promptly replace the biopace rings, though. Anyone have any idea how to date these via serial number?

[Pau11y]

I've got a Centurion, too. It's a red and white Dave Scott Ironman Expert. Lugged steel and full 105 grouppo, with downtube shifters unfortunately. Not super light or flashy, but every bit as fast as those guys on nicer bikes. I did promptly replace the biopace rings, though. Anyone have any idea how to date these via serial number?

I think tubeset might be better for dating a frame, altho there are still builders out there using TSX in some of the lugged frames.

Off on a tangent, I got my grubby little hands on this:

http://home.comcast.net/~pau11y/Strong_Frame/Strong_Foco_56_a.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~pau11y/Strong_Frame/Strong_Foco_56_b.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~pau11y/Strong_Frame/Strong_Foco_56_c.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~pau11y/Strong_Frame/Strong_Foco_56_d.jpg

Ebay for $390.00 to the door. The seller offered me an Ouzo Pro and silver King for $188.00 more which I promptly jumped on.
It's actually in transit, not here yet. It's not new, but in pretty damn good shape.

[Mr Tiles]

I love the simplicity of steel. That's a gorgeous frame! Congrats Pau11y!

[Pau11y]

I love the simplicity of steel. That's a gorgeous frame! Congrats Pau11y!

Tanx Mr T. Look at my other post and help me get rid of my older bike so I can get the Strong up and running. :dancing: