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Old 04-26-12, 01:54 PM
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Thanks for the replies. I realize there is no standard, and am well aware of Bob Hovey's Masi serial number deciphering (I used it when researching the Masi I bought recently). rhm gathered a number of Norman serial numbers but was unable to see a pattern. By making this information public my hope was to allow other people to take a crack at the problem. (Or maybe there's someone else out there with a few more Norman numbers to contribute.)

Thanks for the suggested extensions to the number of fields. I don't want to wind up with an explosion in the number of possible attributes though. After a few (type of fork crown, presence of chroming on dropouts any stays, location of serial number, etc), I suspect it might be best just to toss other variations into a comment field. (I will always be able to add more later, if necessary.) I suspect a URL field might be useful. That way the submitter could refer to the specific bike's photos on Flickr, Picasa, or other photo blog sites.

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