How To Identify Bike By Serial Number

There were many different factories making mongoose bmx bikes and all had different serial number codes.

How to identify bike by serial number. I started to collate frame numbers from 1890s 1920 triumph bicycles and will update it. The bike s serial number is the best way to identify that a bicycle is yours. Specialized serial numbers typically start with the prefix wsbc wud stt or ste. How to find your serial number.

But it says my frame is. If you search for 1234 you will only find bikes with serial numbers of 1234 and serials close to that not a bike with serial number of 12345689. After the bicycle boom of the 1970s however schwinn s proprietary frame building technology and heavier bikes became less economically viable in an increasingly weight obsessed industry resulting in millions of unique vintage and antique bikes that can be identified by their serial numbers. Beeston humber frame number dating.

It appears that raleigh recycled many of the older serial numbers in later years so there are lots of bikes from the 60s and 70s that have serial numbers that would suggest much greater. Join date aug 2009 posts 8. The guide covers many serial numbers but not all. Okay fine so maybe there are a few bikes without serial numbers but this is rare and typical only on hand made bikes or really old bicycles.

You should find a serial number on the bottom bracket or chainstays perhaps someone here could decode. Use the images and instructions below to help you locate the serial number on the frame of your santa cruz bike. Please include the entire series of numbers and letters when registering your frame. Find our what year your bmx was built and sold and date mid school and new school bikes made between the mid 90 s to mid 2000 s.

Dating these bikes is usually the first step. The following dated bicycle frame numbers from the singer car club not guaranteed. For bikes the serial number is located on a sticker on the underside of your toptube and or downtube as well as on the underside of your bike underneath the bottom bracket. Elswick hopper frame number dating.

You will need the serial number to register. Locating your serial number on your frame. There can be hundreds of the same color brand and type of bike in the world but the serial number will distinguish it from the rest. Note that the serial number information below is fragmentary and incomplete and many bikes have proven to be much newer than the serial numbers would suggest.

Then run thru the gt gallery above and try to match up your bike.