Originally Posted by
TriBiker19
The decoder I was looking at seemed to imply that it could go either way--fortnight or month--with no information on which of the two would apply. As an accountant, I love vague information, so this made me deliriously happy! o_O
12th Fortnight sounds like a historical novel written in serial format with each episode numbered accordingly. They better fall in love by the 26th episode or it'll be like groundhog year and they have to start all over again in January with a new meet cute.
There's a 3rd possible interpretation, that places L as being August. That's right in the gray transition period where it could be either a 1987 or 1988 model. Regardless, the purple smoke paint scheme, Unicrown fork and 600 Ultegra components confirm that it is a 1988 model.