Centurion Spider-1 1982 (#1)

In the spring of 2012, I was lucky to find the remains from an old BMX shop in Gothenburg that closed in mid 80´s. Thanks to Christian (the BMX shop owner´s former stepson) for selling the parts to me! I was told that the BMX shop imported almost all their stuff from Germany and many parts was labelled as Centurion “Star Line” or “Pro-Line” parts (high quality parts from Japan, such as Tange, Sugino, SR, MKS etc).

There was two Centurion Spider-1 frame/fork/headset kits among all the parts. I have build them up with two different color schemes; this one in yellow/red/black, and the other one in yellow/blue/white. Almost all parts on this bike is NOS (new old stock), except for rims, hubs and brake.

Centurion is an old bike company, and in early 80´s they were into BMX for a short while. I haven´t found much information about Centurion BMX, but I think they have something to do with Diamond Back in some way. Otherwise, Centurion is best known for their road bikes.

The last two pictures is borrowed from a member at BMXmuseum.com (no hard feelings?) and it shows the Centurion Spider from an old catalogue from Germany.

The plastic chain protection is my favourite part of the bike. I used to have those chain protections on my bikes in the early 80´s. It made funny noices when you were pedaling.

Again, a big thanks to Christian for selling the parts to me! 🙂