Mongoose Bike Serial Decoder
Mongoose Bike Serial Numbers
Secondly, it looks like your building a 1978 model like the John George ad. If your frame is a '79 your looking for a totally different build, see my catalog scans in the museum. A '79 model has annodized 7C's, annodized low flange Shimano hubs with cassette rear, matching red or blue fork, Mongoose suede saddle, MKS BM-1 pedals, Mongoose headset, blue alloy bars and Mongoose shinwall snakebellies.
To properly match a 1978 Team Mongoose like the John George ad and the 1978 catalog you need need MKS BM-1 [again], non logo suede saddle, blue alloy bars, DeCoster fork and believe it or not, the 1978 catalog Team Mongoose has a Motomag decal on the down tube.
Mongoose didn't issue any stamped products [not counting pads] until 1979, then came grips, seats, headsets, bottom brackets, seat clamps and tires.
Team Mongooses came with 39t Shimano rings, both years.
We've talked about the fork already, but that fork looks to be a later model, like 1982/3 when they were putting the red or blue over silver powder coat instead of over nickel, your fork doesn't appear to match your frame shade.
Is the Shimano lever straight or pre-bent? Looks straight, need bent.
What are the date codes on the shimano products, hubs, brakes, cranks? I have the date codes if your as picky as me.
I'll finish with this, I love that bike, as I said I'm building a 1978 just like John's in the ad. I lusted over that ad in 1978/9 like nothing else, I finally got mine in '79 but I always like the 78's better, now I have one. I'm only being picky because I'm nuts about both years, yours, like I said is kind of a cross breed between the 78 and 79.
Sep 16, 2009 Can anyone help I came across two bitchen bike in swhich I'm restoring 1) is a Robinson with the serial numbers (P)04920942 2) Dyno SY6J000396 I go back and forth between sites trying to figure out how to decide an can't seem to figure out,if ya'll could give it a shot or explain it would be much appreciated. Older Mongoose bikes made through the 1980’s had pretty easy serial numbers. Generally the year and month of build was stamped as the first part of the serial number. For example my 1986 Mongoose Expert has a serial number M6EG0652. The first number (6) relates to the year – 1986. Serial numbers on Mongoose BMX bikes. If you find a Mongoose Decade for sale, a Mongoose FS1 for sale, or another vintage Mongoose BMX for sale, then you can tell when employees made the bike from the serial number. Old Mongoose bikes built in 1975 and early 1976 have a five-digit-stamped number. Those numbers started at 1,000, and the higher.
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- Mongoose Bmx Serial Number Decoder There is some inconsistency in Mongoose serial numbers, due to how the bikes were assembled. Welders were supposed to use the bracket tubes, where the serial numbers are stamped, in sequence, but sometimes they grabbed whatever tubes were handy.
- Nov 27, 2020 Yet, quite alarmingly, less than 20 percent of bike owners know their bike’s serial number, as Bicycle Law reports. What, exactly, is a bike serial number? A bike serial number is basically a string of digits that will have between six and 10 numbers in it. It is sometimes referred to as a bike frame number.