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…

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…

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…

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 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 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 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…

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…

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.…