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Enter your Schwinn serial number in the box and click 'find' to see what date and year your Schwinn bike was manufactured.
The bicycle's serial number is commonly referenced by law enforcement and by pawn shops and is often to only way to prove ownership of a bike. Outlined here is a method to find your bicycle’s serial number and register it (for free) using an available online database. Are you asking how to find the serial number on a particular bike? Simon Rakower's answer to Where do you find the serial number on a Huffy bicycle? If you want information about a particular Trek and you have the serial number, there’s this: Vintage Trek Bicycle Frame Serial Numbers, bike. If you can’t find a serial number, you can still register your bicycle with DPS. To do so, bring the bicycle to the station, located in Parking Structure A (PSA). We can provide you with tools to engrave your driver’s license number on your frame. A serial number on the underside of a bottom bracket. Another serial number beneath the bottom bracket, aligned parallel to the frame. Some Schwinn bicycles have the unique identifying number on their head tube (which is on the front of the bike). A serial number located on a rear drop out.
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.
Notes: This tool works for Schwinn bikes from 1948 to 1982. All serial number records before 1948 were lost in a factory fire.
Serial Number Location
The serial number can typically be found in one of three places on a Schwinn made bicycle.
- The headtube
- The rear dropout
- Underneath the bottom bracket shell
Note: The serial number will always be found on the actual frame of the bike. In other words, it will not be found on a bike component (like a handlebar or a pedal).
Example Numbers
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Schwinn serial numbers commonly have one of three formats:
- All numbers
- One letter followed by numbers
- Two letters followed by numbers
Here are some example numbers: 0465228 - F106791 - EB37868
What a serial number can tell you
The serial number on a Schwinn frame will tell you the date that frame was manufactured. It will not identify the model of the bike, only the year the frame itself was manufactured.
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