1980 CENTURION $650.00 OBO - $650 (santa rosa)

Date: 2012-01-12, 3:17PM PST
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It's never too early to sit on a genuine CENTURION! 1980's ~ the last of the Japan made bikes !!! It's close to mint condition and original,,,!!!
$650.00 or best offer !!
JR (707) 583-5999
ready to ride and tuned up , new tires..

it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Stolen off my front porch sometime in the last few hours was a DeBernardi frame and fork. The size of the frame was 62cm. It is painted a rattlecanned mix or orange and yellow, with home-made DeBernardi stickers.

I'm not particularly concerned about its' return, but I would hate for someone unsuspecting to buy this thing. It has the following issues:
1) The seat post is stuck. I was in the process of trying to loosen and remove it; that's why the frame was on my porch. It has some fairly noxious chemicals dumped into it.
2) The bottom bracket (Campy Veloce sealed unit) is shot. Not mildly shot, but completely gone shot. From my experience with these, it is also likely seized to the frame. You might be able to get it out with a blowtorch. Maybe.
3) The drive side crank arm, which was still on the frame, has stripped removal threads and likely is not going anywhere either. In addition, the chainrings are well past the point of going to that place chainrings go when they desperately need rest.
4) There is serious rust through the frame. I mean fatal rust. This frame is a goner; the prior owner had toxic sweat that would eat through paint and steel. I'm not making this up.

In short, if someone tries to sell you this bike frame, you should probably demand money from them. There were a couple of usable parts on it, a stem and a carbon fork, but as a whole this bike is a wreck.

Now it's possible someone saw it next to my recycling and figured they'd just grab it as it was going to the dump/recycling anyhoo. Really, you could have just knocked on the door and asked and I likely would have just given it to you. Then it would be out by your recycling, with toxic chemicals leaking down the seat tube. Hell, I might have helped you out a bit more.

If you stole it and are thinking of rattlecanning it again and selling it, just take it to the scrap metal place and get a dollar forty eight for it or whatever it is worth. A word of caution: don't smoke around the seat tube and/or seat post of this bike-- it's likely to explode quicker than your mother's meth lab did. If you're looking at a frame and it appears to be recently rattlecanned, in this size range, I would run away, or demand money from the seller to take it. I'm posting this as a PSA.

Heck, ya'll can even email me about this one. Though this being craigslist, I will no doubt get a lot of emails saying "Is this still available?". I'll assume you're fishing for email addys and not reply to those, but in case the question is asked in good faith, the answer is "NO."

Beautiful Fixie Single Speed

I bought it for $17,5 4 months ago
I have good times with it around richmond but I am traveling on and wish to sell it

I have stored it in shed all fall/winter, it has gotten no water damage.
Still in excellent condition

OM