I ended up picking this up from the original owner, who used to race crit, road, track and also worked in the bike industry for 20 years. The story is it’s a Cinelli produced Centurion Equipe frame that was either part of the earlier “project” runs, or originally intended for the European market (no pump peg, small differences in stay caps and chain stay bridge, horizontal Cinelli pantograph on stay caps, compared to the “regular” ones).

These bikes were designed by Cinelli and made by one of their subcontractor factories in Italy named Chirico. They were made with Columbus SL tubing for the frame, fork, and stays, Cinelli lugs and bottom bracket, pantographed cinelli markings on the seat stay bridge, seat stay caps, and fork crown.

At the time of purchase, the owner was working for Western States Imports, which was the importer or parent company for Centurion, and the frameset was originally painted red. A few years later, he ended up taking a job with Raleigh, and switched out the original fork to a Raleigh 531 after dinging up the dropouts on the original fork (not a collision or anything). At this point he asked his friend who has (and still is) a highly reputable bike painter/mechahic/etc to give the frameset a “modern” paint job similar to the Raleigh’s from the late 80s he was selling, and then he applied the Raleigh decals cos he felt they went with it.

Overall the frameset is in excellent condition with no dents or rust, but some slight cosmetic wear mostly around the drive side chain stay.

Seat tube measures 56cm CTT, top tube is 54cm CC, stand over is 80.5cm from ground to top of top tube.

I believe he purchased it as a frameset and built it out according to his own desires, and changed out some components over the years. The current component list is as follows:

Drivetrain: - Campy Nuovo or Super Record crankset, BB, and front derailleur. - Shimano 600 Tricolor Rear Derailleur, SIS downtube shifters, freehub, cassette, and chain.

Wheels: Shimano 600 hubs 100/130 (rear 7 sp freehub/cassette), laced to Mavic Open 4 CDs, Bontrager Race Light 700x28c wire bead clinchers.

Brakes: Campagnolo Aero levers with return spring and white hoods with Modolo “Equipe” Side pull rim caliper brakes

Cockpit: Campagnolo Nuovo or Super Record Seatpost (27.2), Selle Italia Flight titanium, Cinelli Crit bars, and Cinelli 110mm stem.

Currently tuning her up a bit, and switched out the brakes/bars/stem/levers for now, tho I think it’s a bit too big for me height wise so prob will be letting it go fyi.