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Nishiki Serial Number Decoder. Howie Cohen later founded the company Everything Bicycles, working with Kuwahara to build and import BMX bikes carrying the Kuwahara brand name, developing the first major BMX distributorship 4 — and ultimately supplying Kuwahara bicycles for the 1982 movie E.T. And securing the right to market the 'ET Bicycle.' The easiest way to read the bike serial number is by using a bicycle serial number decoder for the specific brand of your bike. Why The Bike Serial Number Is Important As you can tell, the bike serial number is very important, even though it's almost always overlooked by bicycle owners. BMX Products Inc. In the early years moved into the unit next door to RECO and eventually bought them out. So serial numbers that ran from May 1976 through to March 1981 will have three digits in sequence overtop the serial number of that frame. Let's look at some serial number examples below to get a better understand how the process worked. This tool searches a database of Schwinn serial numbers and if it finds a match to your serial number then it will display the information available for your bike. Notes: This tool works for Schwinn bikes from 1948 to 1982. All serial number records before 1948 were lost in a factory fire. Serial Number Location.

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Picked up a Nitro and it has the serial number sy6g000016. Owner didn't know the year but from pics I've found it looks to be a 96 or 97, with the 6's in the number I'm leaning towards the 96..

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Been wondering this myself. I have a chrome VFR I believe that I got recently, and the posts I found on BMXMuseum and so forth didn't really shed light on it. Then again maybe I read the # wrong, so I'll take another look and check back here and maybe compare notes.

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96.Number 16 made that year.
(Pictures help when dating/id ing bikes) Plex drobo fs.

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Thanks, actually just sold it the other day. Bought a very nice Free Agent Limo to ride at the track with the grandkids. The Dyno was just too heavy for racing.

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And mine is SC5i008830, which I assume is a made in Taiwan, 1995, September (cause of the i- 9th month), #8830 of that year!

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Your guide to old Mongoose serial numbers. 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. The guide covers many serial numbers but not all. There were many different factories making Mongoose BMX bikes and all had different serial number codes.

Mongoose serial number information has never really been properly documented, possibly lost as the company changed hands and moved production. However, there are a few BMX restorers who have painstakingly attempted to decipher these multi-digit mysteries.

A big part of buying, rebuilding and restoring old BMX bikes, is knowing exactly how old they are. When I started looking into finding out how to read Mongoose serial numbers I found plenty of information on Mongoose BMX bikes made in the 80's and early nineties through google and BMX forums. The problem was there was no information helping to date Mongoose BMX bikes built from 2000 onwards. It seemed nobody figured out how to read the serial numbers.

Older Mongoose bikes made through the 1980's had pretty easy serial numbers. Generally the year and month of build was stamped as the first part of the serial number. For example my 1986 Mongoose Expert has a serial number M6EG0652. The first number (6) relates to the year – 1986. The next letter relates to the month (E) is May based on the convention January (A), February (B), March (C), April (D), May (E), June (F), July (G), August (H), September (I), October (J), November (K), December (L). It is assumed that the G0652 is the production number. There were a few variations on this type of serial number, but usually they were pretty easy to work out.

There are much more difficulties when looking at Mongoose serial numbers through the 1990's and 2000's. I spent quite a bit of time looking into these numbers on a few of my bikes as well as checking against other Mongoose BMX owners to see if my serial number crack was right. It seems to hold up and here it is.

Mongoose serial numbers are usually found stamped on the bottom of the bottom bracket. This is not always the case and there will be some bikes that do not fit into this formula.

Mid-school Mongoose BMX bikes built through most of the 90's have a serial number that begins with 4 letters. The 3rd letter corresponds to the year of manufacture.

A B C D E F G H I
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

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The 4th letter indicates the Month

A B C D E F G H I J K L

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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

A few serial number examples are:

HFGB00000 – 4 letters, GB are the dates. G is the year (1997), B is the month (Feb)

HFBH00000 – 4 letters, BH are the dates. B is the year (1992), H is the month (Aug)

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New-school Mongoose BMX bikes built through most of the 2000's have a serial number that begins with 5 letters. The 4th letter corresponds to the year of manufacture and follows on from the mid-school serial numbers.

J K L M N O P Q R S
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09

A B C D E F G H I J K L
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

A few serial number examples are:

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HAMME00000 – 5 letters, ME are the dates. M is the year (2003), E is the month (May)

SAJPJ00706 – 5 letters, PJ are the dates. P is the year (2006), J is the month (Oct)

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Please note: The Mongoose serial number will give you the build date of your BMX. Frames were normally manufactured the year before being sold in bike shops. So a build date on a frame of 2003 usually means the bike was sold in stores in 2004. This is the case with the 2003 Mongoose Brawler 24 below. The Serial has a build date of 2003, the 2004/004 on the stickers indicate this was a 2004 model.

I have confirmed this Mongoose serial number crack many times against bikes that have been known to be purchased that year, bikes with distinct graphics and colours and checked them against Mongoose BMX catalogues.

If you want to know more about the Mongoose BMX you have, visit ourBMX Catalogue website. You'll find all the original catalogue info you need including original parts lists, specs, colours and photos of restored bikes.

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