Elgin Bicycle Serial Numbers

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Elgin Cycle Co. Offered an Elgin King and Elgin Queen at a more affordable $40 apiece. Riding on the worldwide fame of the Elgin National Watch Co., Elgin Sewing Machine & Bicycle Co. Council Member Term: 5/2015-4/2019 Rosamaria “Rose” Martinez is an Elgin native, graduate of Elgin High School and east-side resident. This document was created to aid in the identification of model year and year of manufacture of Columbia bicycles. Sources used were factory serial number charts. 1938 Elgin Twin 20 ‘Model 502’ 1938 Elgin Twin 20. Model 502 (Now sold) This is a fabulous ‘dream bike’ produced by the top quality American manufacturer Elgin, which was famous in the late thirties for its spectacular and unique bicycle designs. Michael's Vintage Bicycles Buy, Sell, Restorations & Rentals. 1936 Elgin Mens Oriole This vintage bicycle is one of the First 26x2.125' Ballooner Bicycles. When completed, both will have matching Paint and Sold as a Pair. Update: 3/18/2015. The bicycle itself is pretty plane jane, but that motor kit makes it 100% cooler and much more valuable. I'd say just as a rough estimate that the bicycle is a late 40's early 50's model. Its hard to tell what model because of the missing or incorrect parts, but it doesn't have a springer so its possibly one of the base models.

Elgin Serial Number Dating

All bikes1all have unique serial numbers.

Finding a bicycle serial number

Most bicycles have their serial number engraved beneath their bottom bracket, but sometimes serial numbers are found in other places. Here are some examples of where and what to look for:

  • The bottom bracket (where serial numbers are typically located) is circled.

  • 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 (their serial number) on the head tube. This is on the front of the bike.

  • A serial number located on a rear dropout. Some BMX bikes and a few Schwinn bicycles place the serial on the rear dropout. On older Schwinns there are numbers stamped on both the drive side and non-drive side rear dropouts; the one on the non-drive side dropout is the serial number.

  • Some bikes have multiple serial numbers.2When adding a bike to the Index, it's best to enter all the groups of numbers and letters separated by spaces.

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Hopefully you can find the serial number on the bicycle you're looking at - email contact@bikeindex.org if you're having trouble.

Sears Bicycle Date Codes

Vintage elgin bicycle serial numbers

Searching serials on Bike Index

Finding bicycles by serial number on Bike Index is a critical part of our functionality. When searching for a serial number, use our serial search bar - it's the second bar on our search form.

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1941 Elgin Bicycle Serial Numbers

We've done a few things to make it more likely that you'll find the bike you're looking for.

Vintage Elgin Bicycle Serial Numbers

  • Certain numbers and letters are difficult or impossible to distinguish between (e.g. 0 and O, S and 5). We treat all these numbers the same way - a search for 005LLL will match a bike with the serial OOS111.
  • We split bike serials up by spaces and store each separately. If you see multiple numbers on a bicycle - such as in the photo of the Look bike above - try searching for just one of the numbers at a time. Searching for eitherM4106I9CA1 or 200910427-2A will find the bike.
  • We do close serial matching - bikes with serial numbers that are close to the serial you entered are shown below the matching results under the heading 'Serial Numbers Close to..' - given a search of a serial number with a couple numbers/letters that are different or missing.
  • We do not currently do partial serial searches. If you search for 1234, you will only find bikes with serial numbers of 1234 and serials close to that - not a bike with serial number of 12345689.

Sears Elgin Bicycles

  1. Okay, fine, so maybe there are a few bikes without serial numbers, but this is rare and typical only on hand made bikes or really old bicycles.↩
  2. In this picture 200910427-2A is a manufacturer number and not a serial number. However, to make bikes as easy as possible to find, we'd love it if you entered all numbers you encounter.↩