Deja Vu? Vintage Centurion Website
04-11-23, 05:35 AM
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Deja Vu? Vintage Centurion Website
Anyone been to Vintage-Centurion.com lately? I was looking up info on a Centurion RS Elite that popped up on CL and the site didn't load. The Wayback Machine site shows their last captured image in mid 2022. Are we reliving the Vintage Trek Website debacle?
04-11-23, 05:51 AM
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I was looking for Centurion data about two weeks ago... and the site search on Google ran me into a "can't load that" screen. I was hopeful that it was a lapsed security measure or something....
04-12-23, 04:16 AM
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Whois says the domain expired in February.
Is this one worth retrieving from the Wayback Machine? I can point my WM crawler at it.
Is this one worth retrieving from the Wayback Machine? I can point my WM crawler at it.
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, can anyone revive this website?
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04-15-23, 04:14 PM
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I never heard back, so began reconstituting the website based on Wayback Machine contents. The path forward has been littered with small problems, but I'm getting close. I am looking for scans of three catalogs which were apparently corrupted during crawling: 1974, 1978, 1983. If you have PDF scans of any of those catalogs, I'd appreciate it.
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Also, on fleaBay, a previously unseen1970s catalog. This one wasn't on the website.
Centurion Bicycle vintage 1970s catalog
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Thanks for the pointers. I'll work on filling in the gaps. Does anybody have a way to contact fleslider outside of BF PMs? I'm hesitant to step on someone's virtual toes. Hopefully, copyright issues are no problem.
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Thanks for the pointers. I'll work on filling in the gaps. Does anybody have a way to contact fleslider outside of BF PMs? I'm hesitant to step on someone's virtual toes. Hopefully, copyright issues are no problem.
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Trying to track down copies of the missing Centurion catalogs, I found this site:
https://centurion.us.to/
Does anybody know whose work this is? It appears to be an exact replica of the original site. In addition, the catalog PDFs which are corrupt on the Wayback Machine appear to be intact. Had I known it existed, I wouldn't have bothered expending effort to reconstitute vintage-centurion.com.
https://centurion.us.to/
Does anybody know whose work this is? It appears to be an exact replica of the original site. In addition, the catalog PDFs which are corrupt on the Wayback Machine appear to be intact. Had I known it existed, I wouldn't have bothered expending effort to reconstitute vintage-centurion.com.
05-10-23, 03:35 PM
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Hey All, I Apologize for the gap in the site. the link Skip put up is the other domain the site is using .
https://centurion.us.to/
Had some issues with the domain vintage-centurion.com, working on implementing vintagecenturion.com it has been a change ive been wanting to do, so guess this is the time. i will update as we move along but you can get to it by the previously mentioned address. There are some updates planned soon .
Its good to know that others use the site , wasn't sure if i was just doing the site for my use
https://centurion.us.to/
Had some issues with the domain vintage-centurion.com, working on implementing vintagecenturion.com it has been a change ive been wanting to do, so guess this is the time. i will update as we move along but you can get to it by the previously mentioned address. There are some updates planned soon .
Its good to know that others use the site , wasn't sure if i was just doing the site for my use
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05-10-23, 04:39 PM
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Quick update.
Its now available at vintagecenturion.com
Its now available at vintagecenturion.com
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