- Rudge bicycle serial number chart serial numbers#
- Rudge bicycle serial number chart serial#
- Rudge bicycle serial number chart code#
well, thats it for me, if anyone else has info on serials or if you see a mistake in this guide, tell me so i can edit it. Hopefully this bit of info can be used for everyone, and this will save you from those late nights sitting around waiting for a response to your post looking for an answer to the idendity to your gt.although i do feel smart and proud when i can answer these posts.
Rudge bicycle serial number chart serial#
also, common sense tells you that if you have a suspected 'gt' frame, look it up and compare it in the musuem, knowing which style frame you have will help with the process of id'ing your bike with the serial, especially if the serial has some damage that prevents you from getting the full number. this is for the 2 most popular style serial's i see on here.
this isnt always going to match your serial, you may have a 'fake'.its not likely but it happens. This doesnt apply to new gt's, but hopefully some people with info on those will chime in. Next is '03'.this is the third month.which is march.īut still use the museum as a guide to id the frame, cause sometimes you can find the year, but getting a posotive id on the model isnt possible without knowing which style frame you have. On this serial, the first number is the last digit of the year, so 6 stands for 1986 To start, if you have a 'baseball' looking stamp behind your serial, this frame was made overseas.no its not a pacific, so dont cry, or get mad.and lets continue. Here is one more.your serial resembles this:f6030578. Next is the letter 'C'.C is the 3rd letter in the alphabet, and march is the 3rd month, so march is the build month. Next is the letter 'G'.this isnt always there, but if so, this is where it was assembled, (ever notice the built in usa sticker on your gt or dyno?) this is what that letter is there for. The first letter is who made the frame itself, in this case it would be 'Kenisis', an overseas company.this could be replaced by another letter but at least we know what that one is there for.
Rudge bicycle serial number chart code#
but still easy once you learn the code to it. if your serial is KGCG2297 this one gets a little complicated. The last 4 digits, are your build number, this one would be the 2,198th one built. Then you have '92' next in the lineup, this would be 1992 Next on the serial is '0892' this is easy to decode too,Ġ8 means 8th month, which would be august.
It can also be a 'I' for interceptor and so on. M1 stands for 'mach one' that is your model gt. on the dropout you have 'M1' followed by '08922198'.this one is simple. Well we get a good bit of gt serials that could be identified by the owner, if they only had the tips that some of us have learned, so i will post what i know, and anyone with more knowledge can add to it.so here we go. THAT is the kind of stuff that belongs in the BMX Museum!Īnd here is the updates, thanks to love thegoose! (Michael S) It might be a really cool thing if I can track down Gilbert now and interview him for you. He also did the original PK Ripper for SE Racing. Who? Do you remember Race, Inc.? That was Gilbert. I am also teaching welding at a local community college.īy the way, did I tell you that the guy ran GT's in house fabrication for the last ten years (he recently retired) was none other than Gilbert Axt. I am tinkering around with the idea of starting to make my own frames, kind of on a 'one-off' basis. The information might also come in handy for deciphering other makes because the factories in Taiwan make bikes for a lot of different companies.
Rudge bicycle serial number chart serial numbers#
The model and year of production was also coded by a letter, so you won't be able to spot a two digit month and two digit year.īefore I left, I was writing a specification to standardize all of the serial numbers because GT was starting to send most of its US production to other US fabrication shops. There might also be a second letter digit specifying the factory that assembled the bike, if applicable. Menotomy Vintage Bicycles at OldRoads.The first digit would be a letter designating the factory that made the frame. Jack Demerest's 1950's Raleigh Record Ace Richard Sachs' Two 1971 Masi Gran Criteriums Larz Anderson National Bike Show and Swap Concour Awards from the Forth Annual show in 2000ġ968 or later Vintage Lightweight Unrestoredġ968 0r Later Vintage Lightweight RestoredĪlan Bernstein's 1950 Nickel Plated Track Bike Instead, please use the navigation links at the top and bottom of this page. If you can read this text, you do not have Java enabled and cannot use the navigation bar on the left.
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