Centurion Chicago MTB ??? wotissit??

I,ve never heard of it. At £100 its not going to be high quality ot
durable. Having said that for doing the odd short local trip it will
beat walking. Any bike is far better than none. You should find that
cyling is a very forgiving form of exercise as it is not weight
bearing.
If it gives you the taste for cycling you might be better
sometime down the line writing off the £100 and buying a better
quality bike.
While many of the posters here have got several bikes and spend
serious cash you can get something usable and durable for £200-£300.

Sorry I know thatd not a direct answer to your question.

Iain

Rab C Nesbitt - BT said:

Bought a bike in Bracknell Monday just for pedalling around the local area
(whilst staying with the wife in Ascot... most of the time I live in the
Highlands of Scotland... )

'twas a Centurion Chicago, £100, suspension "Zoom" front forks, shimano
"revoshift" gears, hard tail... I hadn't bought a bike for years being a
balding 57y old 17 st bloke just getting the use of his feet back after a
nasty dose of Tibialis Posteria going wrong on the right leg & achillies
flare-up on the left: (Musn't grumble, can still do a lot...)

Canna find "Centurion Chicago" on the net anywhere - although there does
seem to be a german company = www.centurion.de = but I can't find a
"Chicago" on their site...

Anyone know what I've bought??? Did I miss the spec being fully outlined on
t'InterWeb somewhere???

(I've no complaints against the shop or the about the price, just wanted to
know what I've got from a spur-of-the-moment purchase... )

It'll be one of those no-name bikes that get painted with whatever name
the seller wants put on them. I doubt very much you will find it listed
anywhere but you will find a whole load of similar bikes out there with
different names. If it does what you want then enjoy it and don't
bother about anything else.

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

in message <[email hidden]>, Rab C

Nesbitt - BT (') said:

Bought a bike in Bracknell Monday just for pedalling around the local
area (whilst staying with the wife in Ascot... most of the time I live
in the Highlands of Scotland... )

'twas a Centurion Chicago, £100, suspension "Zoom" front forks,
shimano
"revoshift" gears, hard tail... I hadn't bought a bike for years being
a balding 57y old 17 st bloke just getting the use of his feet back
after a nasty dose of Tibialis Posteria going wrong on the right leg &
achillies flare-up on the left: (Musn't grumble, can still do a lot...)

Canna find "Centurion Chicago" on the net anywhere - although there
does seem to be a german company = www.centurion.de = but I can't find
a "Chicago" on their site...

Anyone know what I've bought??? Did I miss the spec being fully
outlined on t'InterWeb somewhere???

Errrmmm... As Deep Thought put it, you aren't going to like this.

You've got a Chinese or Vietnamese no-name. Zoom forks are not the very
worst, and it does at least have real Shimano shifters (although not
necessarily real Shimano derailleurs). Both Zoom forks and Revoshifts
appear at the very bottom end of the Dawes range, for example, and I've
always thought of Dawes as reasonably reputable.

'Centurion' was at one time a brand used by DiamondBack, once a
moderately reputable US bike maker later associated with (bought by?)
Raleigh, and is also the name of a very reputable German bike maker, as
you've found. But your bike is neither of these. Centurion is almost
certainly not the name of the company that made your bike (either in the
sense of the company who made the frame, or the sense of the company who
put the bits together; it's almost certainly a trading name - probably
among dozens - of whatever company imported it into Britain; and it's
probably chosen to trade on the market reputation of one or both of the
other Centurions

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You, you, you! You make a grown man cry...
M. Jagger/K. Richards

I've seen plenty of Centurions in Germany, they seem to be of average
quality, better than 99.99 Aldi specials. I'd say the frames are from
a decent large-volume Taiwan builder (not light but strong enough). Be
prepared to swap-out components as they break/wear-out, then stick some
better quality stuff on (I had Revoshift on a commuter, it was fine, as
good as Sram), cuz even if you buy a new bike for five times the money,
you'll end up having to do that anyway, if the bike is used more than a
couple of weekends in summer (bike manufacturers target customer
profile).
-rory
Here's a typical Centurion, the Deore kit is OK, it lasts and is
reliable.
http://cgi.ebay.de/MTB-Centurion-Numinis-Freerider-FS-RH-51_W0QQitemZ8700451112QQcategoryZ30745QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem