The German company Centurion, which still exists, imported Centurion bikes from Japan to Germany from 1976 on and bought the name-rights in 1990. For a brief period the bikes carried a 'Centurion Bicycle Works' headbadge. WSI marketed the Centurion brand of road and touring bicycles in the United States using the tag line 'Where Centurion leads, others must follow' and 'A Lifetime Bicycle', offering a warranty without time limit. market until currency fluctuations in the late 1980s made them less competitive, leading companies to source bicycles from Taiwan. Japanese-manufactured bikes succeeded in the U.S. against domestic and European bicycle manufacturers including Schwinn, Raleigh, Peugeot, Gitane and Motobecane - as well as other nascent Japanese bicycle brands including Miyata, Fuji, Bridgestone, Panasonic, Univega, Lotus and Nishiki - itself a line of Japanese-manufactured bicycles that were specified, distributed and marketed by West Coast Cycles - a U.S. ContentsД¬enturion and WSI competed in the U.S. The Centurion brand was consolidated with WSI's mountain bike brand DiamondBack in 1990. Teams Company of Kobe and later in Taiwan by companies including Merida. The bikes themselves were manufactured initially in Japan by companies including H. (WSI) in Canoga Park, California (initially Wil-Go Imports) to design, specify, distribute and market the bicycles. Weiner and Junya (Cozy) Yamakoshi, who co-founded Western States Import Co.

Weiner, Co-founder Junya (Cozy) Yamakoshi, Co-founder, Product DevelopmentД¬enturion was a brand of bicycles created in 1969 by Mitchell (Mitch) M.

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