bwilli88 

Show them if you got one or had one.
Also please post the Serial number and build date if you know.
Here is mine
Serial number 298
IMG_20180918_163801056 by Bwilli88, on Flickr

Built with 5500 series Shimano 105.
49x46 up front and 9 speed 12-36 in the back.

My Zunow by Bwilli88, on Flickr
it just wants to go fast.
IMG_20190215_152109180 by Bwilli88, on Flickr

jetboy 

here is mine: looks good from here - up close the paint is a bit trashed: not sure s# or date- its built up modern as it came with sort of a hodgepodge.

jetboy 

heh. this is what happens when you start a show your bike that only like 5 people on the forum have: short thread. I would like to find an early one like you have: A guy in SF has one at a shop, but its a 56, and no matter what I tell myself, that is just too dang small for me. As I recall its blue just like yours-

djkashuba 

The first two photos are of my Di Picce. The next three are of a bike I saw on the street.

-D



Zunow Di Picce by djk762, on Flickr



Zunow Di Picce by djk762, on Flickr



Zunow (seen on the street) by djk762, on Flickr


Zunow (seen on the street) by djk762, on Flickr


Zunow (seen on the street) by djk762, on Flickr

2cam16

Not mine but close enough: My bff's Di Picce

IMG_4149 by 2cam16, on Flickr

Vonruden

so-ichiro

I wanted to post this in case the new owner might recognize this frame. I sold this on eBay disclosing a crack in the seat cluster lug, and some time later I saw this bike on eBay without any mention of this damage while the crack was crudely painted over. I don't think the damage is a big deal but should keep an eye on it.

fleslider 

Some of you may have seen this bike a gazillion times already, But it is still a Zunow in Centurion Ironman Clothing

1988 Centurion Ironman Master (Team Frame made by Zunow for Centurion.) (I will eventually get good pics when i get the frame done)

P!N20

I do, and I wouldn't be very happy if I bought a frame to find out after the fact it was cracked.

P!N20

Amazing. So what are you doing to the frame?

fleslider 

Working on ridding the rust spots and touch up the paint job. want to leave the character of the bike alone but want it protected and a little nicer.

If that makes sense!

so-ichiro

Two more - designed by Zunow. The serial number of the first bike is M9P5020 which matches the format of Miki manufactured bike according to @T-Mar guide. The second one (M9P5009) was a single speed conversion and spray painted in gray by previous owner. I removed the gray paint, and contemplating on what to do.

cirp 

So-Ichiro, where do I find the T-Mar guide?

Thanks,
Jim H
Las Vegas

so-ichiro

This one: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...ber-guide.html

There is no decoding guide for Zunow. My Hummingbirds serial resembled that of Miki, but that's just a guess.

cirp 

Thank you So-Ichiro. To bad Zunow not listed.

Jim H
Las Vegas

merziac

Agree 100%, crack, dent, cancer, et any and all structural damage is a big deal, especially when undisclosed in a sale, ripoff plain and simple.

merziac

so-ichiro

Good on ya for outing that here but I don't think we have seen it here so there's no telling where it's floating around at.

Hopefully the buyer had efbay make it right but we will probably never know.

martl

i've shown these a few times i believe, but yeeha here we go

cirp 

That is just stunning!!

Jim H
Las Vegas, NV

The Golden Boy 

It shouldn't, but it always shocks me when **** like this happens.

Around 10 years ago I bought my first "nice" bike off ebay- If I really knew what I had been doing and what to look out for, I would have stayed away from it. But I was a n00b and all excited- there was a crack most of the way around the seat lug around one of the stays. It had been spray painted over- with overspray on the housing and components around there.

For someone to attempt to disguise damage like that is really, really low.

monkeytusmc 

Wow really amazing bicycles here! Beautiful.

Catnap 

WHAAAA?! After being obsessed with all things Zunow for many years, I love that I have just learned a new fact about them! I had no idea they built for Centurion. That is fascinating and I would love to know more. Can anyone fill me in on this? What years was Centurion contracting out to Zunow? Which models were built by them? Were they available in the USA market?

so cool, so cool!

fleslider 

According to Dave Scott all of the Steel Race Bikes that him and Mike Pigg raced on were Zunow's. this would have been between 1984-1986 for Dave and 1988 for Mike. After that Dave went to Carbon in 1987 and Mike went to Carbon in 1989. They were not production models only built for Dave and Mike. The Womens race team used Facets which were Aluminum.

jet sanchEz

Hmmmmmmmmm, this Centurion angle is really interesting.

I have always loved the look of the teal ones

What are the tells?

All Master framesets or.....?

Catnap 

Very interesting! I had no idea that Zunow built for either of them; the only Zunow-affiliated riders I knew about already were the Puntous sisters. It makes sense in the larger overall narrative of Zunow pivoting towards the triathlon segment in the 80s and 90s. I even have some new-in-packaging Zunow triathlon swim caps and chamois in my collection. I wish I could get the full story of Zunow's involvement with triathletes and triathlons back then; it's a big part of the Zunow story that I don't know anything about.