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…

Cycles Peugeot serial number labels: An Introduction.

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…

Identifying Cycles Peugeot factory codes

In the 1970s and 1980s, Cycles Peugeot had two bicycle production factories in France. The long time factory in Beaulieu which was closed in 1988 and the factory at Romilly-sur-Seine which was purchased in 1972. It is sometime possible to find a factory code on Peugeot bicycles from these factories.…

Cycles Peugeot date codes from Romilly factory

A factory at Romilly-sur-Seine was purchased by Cycles Peugeot in 1972. It had been used to manufacture refrigerators and therefore need some time to convert to bicycle production. Early in the production history of this factory, bicycle frames had a production code stamped into the bottom bracket shell. All but…

Cycles Peugeot date codes : an introduction

With vintage bicycles many people want to know: “How old is the bicycle?” The answer to this question keeps changing because the age of anything keeps increasing. The better question is: “When was the bicycle made?” From the date of origin you can always determine the current age of something.…

Sekine Serial Numbers

Sekine serial numbers found in Canada and the USA from 1972 to 1981. I have collected approximately 200 serial numbers from Sekine brand bicycles found in North America. The serial numbers are almost always found on the bottom bracket. In studying the Sekine frame serial numbers it has been found…