Originally Posted by
dnkjones
I will offer a data point...we bought our Nishiki Cascade MTB in 1990 and the S/N is W89103641. Would I be correct to interpret that our bike was built by Kawamura and the S/N translates W US market 89 year built 103641 sequence number?
While I don't know the name of the source,it would appear to be a Taiawanese source, likely October 1989 and therefore a 1990 model. Is there a country of origin decal? Can you post or link to pics?