Originally Posted by
EddyR
Robbie I have a pink 87 Ironman and it's a 56cm just like that one. I had a mint condition 60 cm one I sold for $350 12 months ago and bought the one I have now the same day for $100. They seem to come up around here on CL about one every three months.Most are to big or to small. Mine has 600 on it not Bio/105 combo.
Ed
I PM'd the seller, he should have no problem selling that bike. If someone doesn't jump on it, they will right before the auction ends. He just needs to hold his ground.
I bought a CL black Expert frame set last month and it came in a little small, 54cm. Once I figure out what to do with that, I'll see once again about searching for a 56cm yellow/lavender model. If you have 600 on that one, either someone upgraded, or that's a rare bird, indeed, either an '86 (600EX) or an '88 (600 tricolor)
I was checking old 2004 Ironman threads, and 55/Rad had a 1989 Expert with Suntour GPX, and he noted that the Master that year had 105. I'm pretty sure the Master had 600 tricolor in '89, but it goes to show you that with Centurion, nothing was really set in stone. I'm sure there were some bikes shipped with different items than the catalog, and dealers may have taken liberty to remove some 600 groups to put on more expensive bike frames.
I know a local one here took all the 600 tricolor stuff off of the 1988 and 1989 Ironman Master models and swapped it with 105 stuff from another brand's more upscale frames....A friend bought a Master in 1987 and it has 105, but he got "$100 off." Yep, and his 600 group ended up on a Trek that year, I'm sure. I even know the guy who bought the Trek.