68deluxe

Hello, I need help identifying a firestone bike. I was able to recover the following info from the frame: the words "speed cruiser" which is prolly the model, and the serial #M201829, i think its supposed to tell the year the bike was made. The colors are red and white. If someone out there could supply me with a year, model, and maybe a pic, that would be grea. It is a single speed w/ a kick back brake i believe. Thanx

-Chris

jasonsan

Have you tried the forums at oldroads.com?
Firestone's were the same as Monark's, 1950's balloon tire bikes. Firestone had a model called the "Super Cruiser", I think. It was the same as the Monark Super Deluxe. There is a pic of one in the book "evolution of the Bicycle vol 2" Page 101. which is readily available and an excellent resource for old bike pics.If ya need parts for one of these, PM me, I may be able to help.

jasonsan

Oh yeah........as far as I know, the only bikes that you could date w/ a serial no. was Schwinn.

PatLuc

Is your bike similar to mine? I've got a photo on this thread in the Winter Cycling area....

https://www.bikeforums.net/winter-cycling/483-what-kind-bike-do-you-ride-winter-3.html

Pat

T-Mar

Serial number charts are available for a handful of the better known makes, at least CCM, Columbia, Huffy, Raleigh and Schwinn, possibly more. If you can get enough reliable data on enough bicycles, it is possible to crack any serial number code. I've decypherd Miyata's code and have relatively good confidence that John E and myself have solved the code for Italian manufactured Bianchi. Unfortunately, in the case of a brand like Firestone, it less likely that you would get sufficient accurate data to break the code.

Depending on the brand, there is a possibility that some components, like the hubs, may have an open format date code. Usually it is two numbers that represent the last two digits of the year of manufacture. Of course, this does not necessarily represent the exact year the bicycle was manufactured, but it is most likely within a year, unless the part has been replaced.

68deluxe

no it doesnt look like your pic, mine is much older than that one i believe.