With many thanks to Krhea, Jan, A. Winthrop and Robbie Tunes for parts and info contributed to this project, I present the completed "C" bike, which from all reports seems to be a Centurion. I was not able to find out who/if it was repainted, or why it's badged only as a Cinelli. It certainly has the complete lugset and logos in the fork crown and stay caps of a Centurion Equipe, and it carried the Ofmega cranks, headset, and universal aero look brakes that Centurion spec'ed for that model, so it seems very likely that it's a Centurion.

I'm saving the neat Mistral cranks and a set of Campy Monoplanar brakes I bought along with a Croce D'Aune rear derailleur with the funky twin axle system for a future "eclectic parts" build. This frame just seemed to cry out for the classic Italian treatment.

I decided to go "full Campy" and use NR stuff to build it up. I polished the cranks by hand (no buffer wheel) and that will be the last time I do that myself. I am still trolling Ebay to find a reasonably priced set of NR pedals and clips for full period correctness, but for riding I'll use the Speedplays pictured. Some minor details include soldered cable ends, gold colored bar end plugs, and frame colored pulley wheels. Oh, and per traditional Italian setup, the front brake is the right lever.

Edited on 12/25, changed to a set of Super Record calipers

Without further ado, the pics:





















Full set of pics located here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7663691...7608905397925/

That looks great! The bar tape choice is perfect, I love how it picks up the gold in the decals, it even compliments the tires! It looks like a whole lot of work went into polishing those cranks, all of your hard work shows. I think you mean Campy NR though (I read it on the RD)

-Matt

very nice! also what brand are those gloves?

They're "Airius" brand, I found them at a local bike shop in Portland for about $20. I had never seen them before and they are made very well, like the ones you wore in the 80s only much higher quality.

man...quite sexy...beautiful rich paint job and overall color scheme, and i'm such a sucker for red. great job

Wonderful looking bike. Great job.

Odly enough, my friend just showed me the exact opposite bike...







Perhaps there is some relation?

Awesome bike! What size is it? It looks like it just might work for me.

Good to see the finished product, Mark. Wow, that snake skin paint job is fancy. Very nice job!!

Ooooh, there's another one, for sure! These are rare. That even looks like a 60 or 62cm. Where is it?

How many are there now on this forum? Poprad's, mine, Robbietunes', A.Winthrop's and JunkYardBike's?

Jan

Hey, that's my garage door.

Maybe it looks a little better now, I hope? It's a 62 cm frame...

Thanks for the comments, and I'll invite any other Centurionelli owners to post a shot of theirs in here.

Very nice bike. Great job on the cranks too. Lp

The Centurionelli is perfect (except for the size and possibly the extra cable on the brakes ).

Very nicely built, and I love the paint job.

HAHA! I wondered who would call me on that Zorro! I left them a little long because I'm still fussing with the routing.

I wish I knew who to credit for the paint, they sure did a nice job. All the Cinelli logos look very well executed and crisp.

I completely understand. It's far easier to make them shorter than it is to make them longer.

WOW that is a beautiful bike, thanks for sharing. wheres Robbie with his pics?

I am so impressed with that bike (I,m depressed coz it aint mine,lol).

Nicely done twin brotha from anotha mutha! The gold touches are crazy nice and not overdone and those bling blastin' gold end caps are pure Italian "heat".

I bow to your manually polished cranks, great "hand job".

The only reason I helped you with this project is because it wasn't my size. Had it been my size that beast would be residing in my bike cave, you lucky devil you.


KRhea

Everyone likes how I polish a set of cranks.

I have two sets you might be interested in - a set of silver SR SP-150 pedals with Sakae SR chrome cages and black leather Sakae SR straps, and a set of black/silver Sakae MTP-126 pedals with chrome Christophe cages and flat braided (poly/nylon?) straps.

PM if interested.......

For anyone who didn't get enough shots of this bike yet, I just added about 24 more in the Flickr link (same link as the original post above):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7663691...7608905397925/

I think he means SR pedals (although what he needs, technically, is NR - there isn't any SR on that bike).

-Kurt

Yeah, I meant to put NR in my original post...taking pics at 2AM got my brain and typing fingers confused.

Thanks for that; I was sent a link to Ray Dobbins' website from Krhea:

https://www.raydobbins.com/index

And after seeing his penultimate photos done on the cheap, I got motivated to try some better shots this time. I made up a shooting area similar to his (he has a bike photo guide in his page) but I don't quite have powerful enough shop lights to really do the job right. Check out his stuff if you haven't seen it; he's the real deal.

That's the way to take pictures. No more shuffling background sheets of marine plywood around, and sweeping the floor.

Thanks for the link. Your pics looks as good as his. Did you use that whole setup with paper and all?