Username: Password: Bikejournal Forum Sub-category: First > Recent Jump to post: What Year Is My Bike?? Pigman Lifetime: 191,035 mi Member No. 2017 Member since: Apr 2004 Home: Springfield, VA Olympus 26' Comfort bike posted at 3:27:31 PM viewed 7738 times I bought this Colnago Classic from Craigslist 2 years ago and I really have no idea what year it is? I have people asking me at my rides but have no answer. Any info or ideas would be appreciated.

126 thoughts on “ How to identify a fake or genuine Colnago ” nusnusds. Seller does not provide serial number! May 13, 2015 at 1:04 pm Reply. Serial numbering only started for Colnago on USA-bound bikes when the CPSC started requiring tracking, etc. West Coast Cycles was importing Colnago at the time and the serial numbers started for their product.

Thread edited on at 3:13:58 PM Grateful_G Lifetime: 121,142 mi Member No. 47108 Member since: Jan 2012 Home: TX Corsa SWB Recumbent bike posted at 3:40:24 PM post #1 viewed 7728 times NICE BIKE!!!

Maybe you can contact the Company and give them the serial number and they can tell you. Lifetime: 23,483 mi Member No. 13469 Member since: Mar 2006 Home: Roscoe, IL Turbo Levo HT Comp Fat Electric bike posted at 4:22:01 PM post #2 viewed 7720 times Another way to tell is by looking in the company catalog. Here's the database of catalogs. Lifetime: 35,655 mi Member No.

1798 Member since: Mar 2004 Home: Ballwin, MO Sintesi Road bike posted at 4:48:28 PM post #3 viewed 7712 times The date code is sometimes hidden in the serial number on those older Italian bikes. It most often is year - month - day but can be year - week of the year (01 - 52) or some variation like that. My Tommasini is a 2 digit year and month followed by a 3 digit production number. Pigman Lifetime: 191,035 mi Member No. 2017 Member since: Apr 2004 Home: Springfield, VA Olympus 26' Comfort bike posted at 5:37:19 PM post #4 viewed 7703 times Thanks. I cannot find it on the website links from KrateKraig so I'll try the serial number.

I have another Colnago but it does not have serial numbers on it. Lifetime: 23,483 mi Member No. 13469 Member since: Mar 2006 Home: Roscoe, IL Turbo Levo HT Comp Fat Electric bike posted at 6:47:45 PM post #5 viewed 7693 times I've been Google Imaging. Looks like it, was told it was a 2002 Colnago Classic 'Rabobank' theme paint. I'll keep searching for confirmation. Lifetime: 31,671 mi Member No. 6853 Member since: Apr 2005 Home: Madison, NC Team Road bike posted at 6:51:44 PM post #6 viewed 7690 times I have another Colnago but it does not have serial numbers on it.

-- posted by Hot huh? BostonBullDog Lifetime: 58,080 mi Member No. 4688 Member since: Jan 2005 Home: Malden, MA Madone 6.2 Road bike posted at 12:15:20 PM post #7 viewed 7644 times I had a bike that the serial number was stamped on the inside of the non drive side rear dropout. Pigman Lifetime: 191,035 mi Member No.

2017 Member since: Apr 2004 Home: Springfield, VA Olympus 26' Comfort bike posted at 2:34:34 PM post #8 viewed 7633 times Thanks KrateKraig. That is exactly the same as my bike. I noticed that the orange color is different between the 2 bikes. I also noticed my bike has a different fork on it. I wish I had the original one.

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Should be on one of the rear dropouts.Those probably aren't even serial numbers. No one has been able to figure out what they are exactly. OTOH, at some point in the 80's (if memory serves) Colnago did begin using serial numbers, so a late 80's, early 90's frame may have one. I just don't know where there's a data base that would make sense of it. Note that those numbers start appearing on dropouts by the early 70's at least. At that time, it was common for Italian frames to dispense with SN's - De Rosa and Masi, to name two, didn't use them either. Here's my Colnago Master Piu (acquired recently.likely from a reader of this forum).patiently waiting its turn in line to get built up.

The rear deraileur side dropout is stamped 'Colnago' and '1D041'. FWIW, weeks ago, I located a post on the net (not sure if it was this site or not.but I copied it to my computer files as reference material) showing a Colnago rear deraileur side dropout with serial number 8E791. A reader guessed it was a 1988 model, stating 'That serial number format is fairly common in the bicycle industry. Typically the first number represents the year, the letter represents the month and the remaining numbers are the sequence. So, the 79th frame of May 1988 would be my educated guess.' So, is it possible that the oringinal poster's serial number starts with a zero, not the letter 'Oh'. In that case, it might be dated 1990.