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1986 Centurion Dave Scott Ironman

By Flat Four on 06/21/2009. Bike tags: Road bike | '86 | 1986 | Biopace | Centurion | more tags >>
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Tange 1 Cr-Mo Double Butted

Nitto bars w/ '80s hot pink fade wrap, Nitto stem

Tange Cr-Mo fork, Shimano 600 headset

Wolber Super Champion Alpine with 700x20 IRC Triathlon Duro, Shimano 600 hub

Mavic MA40 with 700x19 Prologue VR slick, Shimano 600 hub

Shimano Biopace, Shimano 600 crank arms

Stenco Champion gel saddle, Sugino post

Polished Shimano 105 with clips

6x2, Shimano 600 SIS

Used for triathlons in the late 80's, sitting in a basement since. Cleaned up and all original. Haven't seen any other silver/gunmetal Ironmans...anybody got info on this color combination? Matches the dark gray Wolber/MA40 perfectly!





People who friended this bike stevecrowley, purofixie
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very cool

Submitted by stevecrowley on 06/22/2009.

im so excited im actually getting an old tt/tri bike tomorrow, except its a nishiki funny bike. how do you like those biopace chainrings? i've heard so much bad stuff about them, but sheldon brown liked them.

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Thanks! I've heard disaster

Submitted by Flat Four on 06/25/2009.

Thanks! I've heard disaster stories with the Biopace too, but I've only been riding this bike about 3 weeks. Pretty smooth so far, although I can't really feel that much of a difference with the funky "oval-ness" of the chainring.

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