#Murray bicycle serial number decoder serial numbers
#Murray bicycle serial number decoder full
#Murray bicycle serial number decoder code
#Murray bicycle serial number decoder license
#Murray bicycle serial number decoder series

Much of what has been offered up to date for decoding the numbers is based on counting backward from the serial numbers attached to 1960s bikes and using the information on the bottom bracket to divine a catalog number that will reference the bike in the Sears Consumer catalogs. Jc Higgins Bicycles S Serial Numbers Attached To Tried the Sears parts direct website, nada, but that would have been cool Always makes you wonder if there is a brand spanky new in the packaging tank sitting in the corner of some warehouse somewhere.

Someone on the Cabe forum typed his numbers at the Sears parts direct site, and found a 63 date on the parts lists. They generally stopped using the JC Higgins name after 1963, but that chainguard is more typical on mid 60s Sears bikes, though it was used on earlier Murray bikes, since they built most JCHs for Sears.

#Murray bicycle serial number decoder series

They had some 4590 series numbers in 1951, and again in 58, but I couldnt find your exact number.Д®DIT: Just saw the pics in the Gallery, and its a 58 or newer FlightSpaceliner style frame. Theres a book with copies of 1933-65 catalog pages, known as the ElginJC HigginsHawthorne book. The 4 in red, may be a 4 a 9 a 1 or just a burly scratch. We are a community of creative, helpful folks from all over the globe who enjoy the hobby and build some seriously cool bikes. Not the answer youre looking for Browse other questions tagged identify-this-bike vintage cruiser or ask your own question. Making statements based on opinion back them up with references or personal experience.

Provide details and share your research But avoid Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. The last six numbers are the bikes individual unique serial number.

#Murray bicycle serial number decoder code

The 502 is Murray Bicycles code for the bikes they built for Sears. Match the number on the bike to the cataolg number and you can figure out the year and style. Jc Higgins Bicycles S Serial Numbers Attached To.This was my first bike in 30 years and has grown me up from an ignoramus to an involved bicycle fan. I would like to know, definitively, where our bikes came from, and seek help from the rest of the Web. It is not as smooth as the 1969 Schwinn I later bought to keep at my girlfriend's house, but I enjoy riding it, and it is unattractive to thieves.

#Murray bicycle serial number decoder full

You will have to de-rust the chain, clean out and re-grease the bottom bracket, and possibly get a professional to overhaul your hub (I hear this means taking out the internal cartridge and stuffing it full of grease). I am advised that this frame is heavy but decent, even if it is butt-welded and not lugged, that Sears still stood behind their products in those days and were not coasting on mere tradition of quality. On the other hand when they work they shift very smoothly and have a slightly wider gear range than the traditional SA -type hub. The Shimano 333 hub has a poor reputation for longevity in the USA, allegedly they did not stand up to hard use or heavy riders. My brakes have the brand name 'SAC' on them, but for all I know that means 'Sears Approved Commodity.' My tires are Korean, and, I suspect, not original. My bike had a Mesinger saddle which my rump hated, and I have replaced it with a comfort seat, though I had to go to an old-bike-parts specialist to find a bracket to fit the odd truncated post. His has the Shimano hub, it's in very good shape, and he loves it. I have seen one other example of this bike, owned by one of my local barristas. Your hub is original, which made me wonder if the bikes were built in Japan or Taiwan, but the BMA sticker belies this. The decals are identical to the ones on the Puch bikes. One shop told me they were built by Bendix, another said C.F. So what we each have, so I am told, is a post-1972 (note the BMA sticker) US-built bike, styled after the Puch bikes Sears imported from Austria in the mid-sixties (I have seen them with my hub, with SRAM Torpedo hubs, and as 5-speed derailleur bikes), though that dimple in the front fender is a nod to Raleigh.

#Murray bicycle serial number decoder license

My 3-speed IGH is now the Sears 501.3 which in turn (I discovered) was an exact copy (except for the shell) of the immortal Sturmey-Archer AW built under license by Steyr in Austria. My Shimano rear hub was busted: missing innards, cable, and shifter my local bike ship couldn't repair the hub but otherwise fixed the whole bike up, I rode it as a single-speed for a season before deciding I was too fat and old to do without gears.ДЄnother local bike shop promised to fix the hub but what they did was swap the entire rear wheel, which came off an earlier Sears bike built by Puch. I own an identical black Sears, which I picked up at a flea market in Chicago for $60 two years ago, it is identical to yours but for the rust and the back rack. That is, you have a duplicate of my bike.