Centurion Spider-1 1982 (#2)

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/blue/white, and the other one in yellow/red/black. For this one, the original yellow Tange fork was scratched so I took one of the chrome Centurion forks instead. All parts on this bike is NOS (new old stock), except for the new tubes.

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.

There´s a tiny bit of Sweden in this bike; the sealed bearings in the Acorn mags are made by Swedish SKF.

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.

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

FRAME	Centurion Spider-1, yellow (NOS)
FORK	Centurion 1” threaded, chrome (NOS)
STEM	Hsin Lung – (SR-copy), silver/blue (NOS)
HANDLEBAR	2-piece, 8”, chrome (NOS)
HEADSET	Original 1”, chrome (NOS)
GRIPS	Centurion Mushrooms, blue (NOS)
CRANKS	Sugino-copy 165mm 1-piece, chrome (NOS)
BB	US BB, chrome (NOS)
CHAINWHEEL	Sugino Snowflake 40t, chrome (NOS)
PEDALS	Victor Rat-trap 1/2”, white (NOS)
CHAIN	Yaban, yellow/chrome (NOS)
SEAT	Iscaselle Aeroyal, yellow (NOS)
SEAT POST	Landar fluted 7/8” aluminum, blue (NOS)
SEAT POST CLAMP	Steel, yellow (NOS)
BRAKES	Formos MX-1000, silver (NOS)
BRAKEPADS	Skyway copys, blue (NOS)
BRAKE LEVERS	Formos Tech-2 copy, silver (NOS)
BRAKE CABLES	Translucent blue (NOS)
WHEELS	Acorn mag, freewheel, blue (NOS)
FREEWHEEL	16T, black/brown (NOS)
FRONT TIRE	Vredestein 20 x 2.125¨, blue (NOS)
REAR TIRE	Vredestein 20 x 1.75¨, blue (NOS)
TUBES	Biltema, sludge (NEW)
PADSET	Centurion Star-Line BMX racing, white/blue (NOS)
NUMBER PLATE	Centurion “D-1” checkered plate, blue/white (NOS)
DECALS	Original