Originally Posted by
BlazingPedals
When the bikes were all made in Hayes, the serial number scheme was something like YYxxx, where YY was the year it was made and xxx was the # of the frame made in that year. I don't know what they do for SNs now.
At least in 2002 the format was
XXmmyynnnn
where XX = model, mm = month of manufacture, yy = year of manufacture and nnnn = the frame number. Mine is VX01020695, which presumably is a v-rex from Jan 2002 . Would they really have produced 695 frames in one month?