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Investigation into Cycles Gitane serial numbers

November 2, 2022 Gitane 3 Comments

Some bicycle frame manufacturers put serial numbers or frame numbers. With steel frame bicycles from the 1950s to the 1990s these serial numbers were generally stamped into the frame. A given manufacturer usually had a standard format for their serial numbers. Over time most manufacturers that I have seen changed…

Cycles Gitane serial number: data collection and observations.

November 2, 2022 Gitane No Comments

I have now collected over 130 Gitane serial number observations. I believe that the time period of the subject bicycle observation are from the late 1960s and into the 1990s. The serial numbers are all stamped into the frame. There are no label or metal strip serial numbers that you…

Cycles Gitane serial number data an Introduction

October 30, 2022 Gitane No Comments

I am somewhat new to Gitane bicycles as this brand of bicycle was not widely distributed in my part of the world. I have not seen up close very many Gitane bicycles. I do not know the model names well, I do not know the approximate date based on the…

Comparing Cycles Peugeot serial number label series

December 9, 2021 Peugeot No Comments

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

December 7, 2021 Peugeot No Comments

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

December 1, 2021 Peugeot No Comments

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.

December 1, 2021 Peugeot No Comments

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.

December 1, 2021 Peugeot No Comments

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…

Cycles Peugeot serial number labels: An Introduction.

November 30, 2021 Peugeot No Comments

Cycles Peugeot was one of several companies owned by members of the Peugeot family. By the 1970s Cycles Peugeot was a long established and large manufacturer of bicycle frames and the assembly of complete bicycles at Beaulieu, outside Valentigney near the Swiss boarder. In 1972 Cycles Peugeot purchased a second…

Cycles Peugeot date code: frame number versus serial number. 1976

November 11, 2021 Peugeot 2 Comments

Cycles Peugeot in the mid-1970s was manufacturing and exporting a large volume of bicycles. It had two manufacturing facilities. This was no doubt a challenge to manage. Up to 1976, the frame number and serial number were the same thing. The frame number stamped into the frame of the bicycle…