Comparing Cycles Peugeot serial number label series

During the approximately 30 years of Cycles Peugeot serial number labels, I have seen two distinct series of serial numbers. The first series started in 1972 and ended in 1980. The second series started in 1980 and end with the expiration of the Cycleurope’s license to use the name Cycles…

Cycles Peugeot serial number labels: barcode 1990

In 1990 Cycles Peugeot changed over from white labels on the chain stay to barcode labels on the under side of the down tube. The bar code labels included three items: top line of text for bicycle information, middle barcode, and bottom line serial number. The barcode number is 12…

Cycles Peugeot White labels: Timeline of format changes

Over time the white labels system changed. The location of the labels changed, the format of the information changed and the content of the information changed. Here is a time line of some of the changes. 1976 – first white labels with serial numbers. 1980 – sequence number for serial…

Cycles Peugeot serial number labels: White labels.

Up to 1976, the frame number and serial number on Peugeot bicycles were the same thing, the same number. Cycles Peugeot introduce a new system to help manage and identify all of the individual bicycles they produced. In 1976 cycles Peugeot made changes to way the serial numbers, frame numbers,…

Cycles Peugeot serial number labels: metal labels.

Cycles Peugeot attached aluminum labels to some of its frames from 1972 to 1978. From 1972 to early 1976 the bicycle serial number was stamped into the metal label. The labels were a metal strip riveted to the bottom bracket. The labels had numbers only stamped into them. From 1972…