The first four numbers should be a two digit month followed by a two digit year.
Bmx bike serial number lookup.
Most bicycles have their serial number engraved beneath their bottom bracket but sometimes serial numbers are found in other places.
1978 1979 mx ii 4130 frame fork.
The serial number guide will help date haro bmx bikes made between approximately 1990 and 2009.
For mid school gt bmx bikes built in taiwan through most of the 90 s with a serial number that begins with 4 letters before the series of numbers.
Gt serial numbers are usually found stamped on the bottom of the bottom bracket of your bmx.
I spent quite a bit of time looking into the haro serial numbers on a few of my bikes as well as checking.
This guide may not work for all haro bmx bikes built between this time and i have listed below which haro serial numbers it does work for.
So turn your bike around and look for the spot where the two pedal cranks join.
The bottom bracket where serial numbers are typically located is circled.
1974 1975 front gusset had no hole 1976 1977 front gusset had two holes.
This is not always the case and there will be some bikes that do not fit into this formula.
The next part of the serial number is eight numeric digits.
A low number bike would be early 1974.
Here are some examples of where and what to look for.
Your bike s serial number will most likely be found underneath the bike s bottom bracket.
First production bike was serial number 100.
Bikechecker is a free service for people purchasing a second hand bike which allows you to check that the bike is not listed as stolen on the bikeregister database.
A serial number on the underside of a bottom bracket.
What might happen however is that there s no serial number there.
All serial number records before 1948 were lost in a factory fire.
This tool searches a database of schwinn serial numbers and if it finds a match to your serial number then it will display the information available for your bike.
Used the squareback front end the now familiar mx ii rear end on early models.
This tool works for schwinn bikes from 1948 to 1982.
By the 500 600 range somewhere begin the 1975 s.
If the frame was made overseas in taiwan it gets more complicated.
Thieves often try to sell on stolen bikes in the quickest and easiest way.