Originally Posted by
Loose Chain
My wife's Centurion Dave Scott Ironman:
There are only two current 24 inch tires for these bikes, the Schwalbe Durano 24X.90 (
http://www.schwalbetires.com/node/2118 ) and the Panaracer 24X1.0 Pasela. These are 520 bead hook tires. The Pasela is currently installed on the front of this bike. It is a beautiful bike made with quality in the country of Japan of cro mo tubing.
LC
America the Beautiful
Beautiful bike. Is this the super-clean one that was on eBay recently a few weeks ago (there's another one on there now). Various manufacturers were allowed, I guess to produce a Terry model, and none of them were low end. Search "Terry" on this site for a recent thread.
Many people have no idea what the 520 front is all about. I found another model of Panaracer tire, too. My version of that bike still has the Panaracer Technova tires (18 wide). It's about to become someone else's, though.
The bike is easily upgradeable to STI shifting if you have the 7-sp rear, and just as easily to 8-sp if you want to toss on a different rear wheel w/cassette.
It's a hard bike to explain, until someone under about 5'3 rides it, and most of them really like it. Great bike.