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need help on what year this schwinn is?

Old 11-20-04, 01:49 PM
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need help on what year this schwinn is?

The bike is a 16 inch schwinn starlet w/ banana seat. on the schwinn badge it has 1785 and on the side it says 5i01585.
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Old 11-21-04, 05:38 AM
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The 4 digit number tells you when the bike was made. The first three are the day (178th day=June 27th). The last digit reprsents the year. Either 1985 or 1995 and since I don't believe they made a Starlet in '95, it would be 1985. Hope this helps.
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Old 11-21-04, 09:49 PM
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i'm sure most of you know this, but www.oldschwinn.com has a pretty easy system to date almost any schwinn. that's how i figured out my suburban and varsity were both older than me.
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