Schwinn Serial Numbers Database
SCHWINN DATE CODES
SCHWINN DATE CODES BY THE YEAR, IF THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE FOUND ON THE LEFT REAR DROPOUT By The Schwinn Badge On The Front OF The Frame.
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Schwinn Serial number and date code database. Locate the serial number on the left rear dropout, bottom bracket, or head tube. Dating from the head badge day, month.
Serial Numbers Chicago built Schwinn Serial Numbers for the years 1960 - 1969 are found on the left rear axle-hanger or fork-end on the frame; for the.
THIS CHART APPLIES TO CHICAGO SCHWINN S ONLY.
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BY FRAME LOCATION OF THE SERIAL NUMBER
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IF YOU HAVE A BIKE OLDER THAN 1948,
OR YOUR LETTER AND NUMBER DO NOT APPEAR IN THE LISTS,
PLEASE SEND ME THE NUMBER AND YEAR if you know it
AND A PICTURE IF YOU HAVE ONE.
THIS INFO WILL BE USED TO ATTEMPT TO REBUILD
THE PRE-1948 SERIAL NUMBERS LIST.
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On bikes older than 1948 you need to use reference to other, known year bikes,
or pull out the crank to look for a date stamp on it. Doing both is a good idea.
All serial number records before 8/18/1948 were lost in a factory fire.
IF THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE FOUND UNDER BOTTOM BRACKET
On The Bottom Of The Frame, Under The Pedal Crank Housing
IF THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE FOUND ON THE LEFT REAR DROPOUT
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IF THE NUMBERS ARE FOUND ON THE LOWER LEFT OF THE HEADTUBE
By The Schwinn Badge On The Front OF The Frame
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1945 TO 1965 PRODUCTION STATISTICS:
YEAR ------------- UNITS MADE ------ OF MARKET
1945 ------------------ 98,189 ------------------ 18.0
1946 ------------------ 302,071 ----------------- 18.1
1947 ------------------ 486,793 ----------------- 17.4
1948 ------------------ 602,408 ----------------- 22.3
1949 ------------------ 352,302 ---------------- 24.03
1950 ------------------ 510,019 ----------------- 25.5
1951 ------------------ 466,849 ----------------- 22.4
1952 ------------------ 478,383 ----------------- 22.2
1953 ------------------ 501,379 ----------------- 18.6
1954 ------------------ 355,790 ----------------- 14.3
1955 ------------------ 413,355 ----------------- 13.7
1956 ------------------ 454,933 ----------------- 15.6
1957 ------------------ 439,482 ----------------- 16.7
1958 ------------------ 451,158 ----------------- 15.4
1959 ------------------ 546,238 ----------------- 15.3
1960 ------------------ 514,724 ----------------- 13.7
1961 ------------------ 471,506 ----------------- 12.9
1962 ------------------ 528,721 ----------------- 12.5
1963 ------------------ 655,693 ----------------- 14.9
1964 ------------------ 849,818 ----------------- 16.7
1965 ------------------ 876,608 ----------------- 15.5
TOTAL SCHWINN BICYCLES MADE, FROM 1945-1965 ------ 10,356,870.
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Dates between 1948 and 1958 are available because Schwinn kept good records. From
1958 on, several different coding systems were used, from which the manufacture
date and often the assembly date can be decifered.
All serial number records before 8/18/1948 were lost in a factory fire. For pre-1948 Schwinns try taking out the crankset to check for a date code. If you have a Schwinn from this era, please, PLEASE send us pictures of your bike and serial number Cutter Re-Cycle.com.
We are in the process of collecting pre-1948 serial numbers in the hopes of rebuilding the date code system for this period.
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New numbering system begins April 17, 1958: First letter is the month; first digit is the year. D136694 April 1961. I and O skipped to avoid confusion with one and zero.
New numbering system: First letter month; second letter year.
The serial number was moved from the left rear dropout to the headtube between 1970 and 1971.
Le Tour and Super Le Tour models sometimes began with an S followed by the Japan
In the 1980s, the S began appearing in other models as well Passage, Prelude.
Japan Made numbering system: Letter is the month,
number in the first or second position is the year.
1960 - 1969 Chicago built Schwinn serial numbers are found on the left rear axle-hanger or fork-end on the frame.
1970 - 1979 Chicago built Schwinn serial numbers are on the headtube of the frame where the fork enters from the bottom.
If it s not there, check the bottom of the bottom bracket where the pedals go into the frame of the bike.
The Chicago serial numbers consist of a letter representing the month of manufacture, a number indicating the last digit of the year 1960 - 1964; 0 1960, 1 1961, etc. or a letter indicating the year 1965 - 1979; A 1965, B 1966, etc., followed by a sequential series of five or six digits e.g. A367584 or CB77584. If letters were used for date codes, they skipped the letters I and O as they looked too much like numbers. Note: This scheme is for all Chicago built non-Paramount models excluding 1962-1963 Superiors and 1964-1969 Super Sports whose serial numbers are located on the left rear axle hanger and consist of a single letter code for the month again, skip I and O, the last digit of the year and a 3-digit sequential build number -- e.g. K6018 is the 18th frame built in October of 1966.
The 1970 Super Sports with Huret dropouts seem to have used a two digit year C70204 -- March, 1970, 204th frame.
The 1978-1983 Le Tour and Super Le Tour models had their serial numbers on the left rear axle hanger and many began with an S, followed by the Japan Made numbering
Bicycles from Japan will have serial numbers located on the left, rear axle hanger, on the bottom bracket shell or on the lower section of the headlug. The number will have a production month letter in either the first or second position and a production year number in the other first or second position. Examples: J677123 September, 1976.
Beginning in the 1970s, many Schwinns feature a 4-digit stamp on the head badge
that represents the assembly date and consists of the Julian day and the last digit of the year 1246 decodes to the 124th day of 1976 or 1986 -- use decals and components to determine the decade. The Julian dating was adopted for Schwinn s domestic production in 1976. See the 4-digit date code next to the I.
2779 277th day of 1979 or 1989
Some Japanese bikes may have an X in the month position of the frame serial number. This was used to connect the remainder of a production run that spilled over into
January of the next year. For example X may have represented an overrun from the previous year. X9201937 should be Month X and Year 9. But it might be Month January of Year 0. Using this logic, Y9201937 might actually have been made in February of 1980, but was a part of the 1979 production run. I m still looking for a confirmation of this dating method.
Some Taiwanese built by Giant Schwinns have a date code on the right rear axle hanger or on the bottom bracket shell in the format Gmmyy. The letter G followed by a two-digit month code 01 January etc. and two more digits for the production year 81 1981 etc.. An example would be G0181 and equates to Giant, January, 1981.
The Bicycle Trader August 1996, The West CoasterMay/June 1991
Collectable Schwinn-Built Bicycles by James L. Hurd.
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