Originally Posted by
Bioflamingo
I just saved a bike from the junk today for $5. A 1990 14 speed Diamondback Centurion Interval. Not a high dollar bike, but it's my perfect size. I absolutely love the way it feels when I sit on it. Most of the components are no good tho, so I'm gunna use it for my first builder bike. It's got the chromoly frame/fork, plus cool aesthetics. Needs repainted, but I can get that done fairly cheap.
You don't see too many Diamondback road bikes. If I'm correct, Diamondback mountain bikes and Centurion road bikes were the same company, but they only marketed their road bikes with the Diamondback name for a few years. Eventually, they quit making road bikes and just produced the MTBS. Interesting that they changed the name of the road bikes to Diamondback but left the Centurion name on the handlebars. I have a Centurion road bike, and the handle bars say Sakae.