You know what model and what original wheels im Assuming someone changed original ones for the tuff wheels Look at the catalogs here.
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You know what model and what original wheels im Assuming someone changed original ones for the tuff wheels Look at the catalogs here I been doing that just didnt know is serial number world pin down model or how to pin down model.
The serial number on it is: ACL8D05212 Can anyone identify this bike by that serial number.
I have more than ill ever need, my kids ride the dented stuff.
What does the front half of your frame look like I have a 99 hoop-d posted in my bikes.
The mags are not stock for 99 an are off a 06 mongoose rebel.
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The serial number on it is: ACL8D05212 Can anyone identify this bike by that serial number Pics would be helpful.
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With an estimated 15,000 bicycle manufacturers, the odds are stacked against me recognizing yours; in any case, I do not claim to be an expert, just an assiduous recorder of information.
To sift through information to try and find similar pictures to your unidentified bicycle would take me months, and Im already doing similar research on my own bikes.
Not only do I have a full-time job (I run my own business restoring and selling vintage vehicles) and am a hands-on parent of a young child, but I spend a minimum 30 hours every week building, updating and maintaining these free websites to help you do your own research.
Insomnia is my saving grace, otherwise there would be no time for any of this.
In the old days (a time which seems to have ended in the past twenty five years or so), a youngster became an apprentice in a chosen field and learned its history from the older employees.
Thus, for example, an apprentice mechanic was handed down an invaluable unwritten guide to repairing vehicles that could not be learned at college nor from books, because, as well as specific information about various models, it helped a youngster understand the way they were designed and built.
The key point here is that the elders who were around while our favourite vintage machines were still on the road are no longer with us, the last of them having passed on in the past thirty years or so.
Now we must depend on those who gleaned that first-hand knowledge from them; these chaps were the youngsters then, but now theyre getting older themselves, most in their seventies and eighties.
They dont usually use computers, so much of their knowledge is stored in their heads.
By the time we learn from them, its second-generation information.
We study 100-year-old magazines to see when certain new innovations were first reviewed (it helps us date bicycles with similar features), read correspondence of the time to try to understand contemporary views and opinions, research old catalogues, meet fellow enthusiasts, help each other with restorations, ride our old bikes as much as possible, and work with our elders to pick up tips and wisdom.
Sometimes, folks with no experience of the vintage hobby who may have recently unearthed an old bicycle contact me and demand that I immediately tell them what it is, how old it is and what its worth.
I try to explain as politely as possible that such a service does not exist, and they are often abusive as a result.
Usually they want me to identify it so they can sell it on ebay.
Luckily, I remembered an old Sufi saying, Only explain things to people in a language they understand.
So now I answer that such a service, which will obviously increase the value of their unidentified machine, will cost them 50 VAT.
Its still not a service I actually offer but at least they are less abusive.
The Veteran Cycle Club (V-CC) has a system of marque enthusiasts volunteers who compile what information they can about particular manufacturers.
By joining the V-CC you can access whatever information is available.
If that doesnt help, if it is interesting enough, you might be able to send pictures of it to the the V-CC magazine, or take it to vintage shows and ask exhibitors, or keep an eye on ebay to see if something similar ever comes up.
You may be lucky, but more than likely it will remain a mystery.
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