Serial numbers and details of a couple more Centurions.
First, a 1987 Centurion 'Team Pursuit', which seems to be an Australian-only model, serial no: M7D00320
The following seems to be original equipment:
Suntour Alpha 5000 rear and front derailers
6x2 speed Suntour indexed/(or friction) shifting with Suntour Alpha 13-15-17-19-21-24 freewheel.
Sakae SA 170mm crankset with 52/42 teeth and 110mm P.C.D. There's barely any wear on either the chainrings or the cogs.
Alpha 5000 Dia Compe brake calipers.
Suntour dropouts at the rear. The front dropouts don't have any writing on them but they have holes with threads for guards.
The wheels have 36 spoke Araya 700c rims, Suzue hubs. And 28mm tyres which are probably not 29yrs old but could well be.
The headset is Tange Seiki with what looks to read: TG235
BB is some kind of unsealed lock-ring one which i should have noted when i overhauled it.
The frame is 'Tange 2' tubing, 58cm c of bb to bottom of seattube scallop and a 57cm top tube c-c. It has a 'Quality from Japan,
Designed in USA' decal. Only has bottle cage bosses on the downtube. The Suntour downtube shifters are the clamp-around-the-downtube
type, no downtube bosses, but i noticed there's an integrated small sheet of metal brazed on the underside of the downtube under the
paint for the downtube shifter clamp to lock around.
A grey plastic Suntour dork disc that has an art deco-ish type line pattern.
I have no idea what stem or handlebars or brake levers it might have had, or seatpost (i put that one on), but it also came with MKS
AR-8 pedals. They may or may not be original.
BTW, while searching i found that someone had posted a similar bike on a thread 9 yrs ago, here:
http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...requested.html and they had even quoted the serial no. and also confirmed some of the original equipment. So that info combined with the above may be useful here.
Secondly, a 1987 Centurion Triathlon Expert, the Australian-version of the U.S Ironman Expert, size 54 with Serial No: N7D6388, as shown as it is currently on page 80 of the 'Post your Centurion Ironman..' thread.
