Originally Posted by
Lotus907efi
The serial number on this Carbone 9 bike on ebay totally breaks the normal Vitus serial number pattern:
Even the font used to stamp these numbers looks different to me.
Thoughts?
I have been cataloguing serial numbers for several years, including Vitus serial numbers.
Vitus offered 3 different aluminum/carbon tube sets standards: 979, 787, and 992. From my data I can see different serial number patterns for each of these tube sets.
The subject serial number is one of the Vitus 992 formats.
This format appears to have date encoding. The first digit is year and the next two are month, so January 1995. The tube set decal is consistent with the date.