Is your frame number significant to you?

[horizon]

I've just bought a second hand bike with which I am very pleased (more about that on another thread ). One of my first jobs was to make a note of the frame number (as one should). The nine digits (letter and numbers) comprised (albeit not in the right order):

My six digit date of birth
The two digit number of the house in which I was born
The first letter of the small town where I live.

Should I regard this as significant?

[Mick F]

I would!

I know my Mercian's number off by heart - much as I know my mobile number or our land-line number - but it's not significant in any real way.

[danfoto]

... I know my Mercian's number off by heart ...

Even sadder - I know the engine number of the first new Triumph motorbike I bought - it was a 1965 Triumph Tiger 90, and the engine number was T90H36905.

And I have absolutely no idea why my brain still retains that singularly useless information.

[gaz]

.

[ferrit worrier]

A long, long time ago I was 16 and my Mum and Dad bought me a new bike frame No 3050677X2895. No significance what so ever. but it does puzzle me why I should remember the number after all these years.

[thirdcrank]

... Should I regard this as significant?

If the numbers of your DoB are all six in the right order, that seems quite uncanny but apart from that, I think you could cobble together any number you like from former residences, wheels on a railway engine and w.h.y.

I've known all sorts of numbers by heart and eventually forgotten them but like most people, I remember our Co-op number from the 1940's - 149491. I've had the same PIN since they introduced PIN's and I've forgotten it twice this year at POS.

I record bike frame numbers, but I don't attach any significance to them

[Audax67]

...I remember our Co-op number from the 1940's - 149491....

I remember my mum's from the 50s but since I use it for a password ah'm no tellin'.

[al_yrpal]

That is uncanny. I blame big brother( or b** Google)

Al

[keepontriking]

I don't remember any except one.

My Bike Friday is No. 6666

[jezer]

I remember the frame number of my first bike, bought by my parents on 5th May 1958. It was a landmark day, although I do not remember any other numbers from my many bikes over the years. I still use that original number as a password on some websites to this day, sad or what

[531colin]

I know the frame number of my Spa Roughstuff.......its number 1...

[Mick F]

995566 was my dad's RAF number during WW2.
Strange that I should know that .............

[jezer]

...I remember our Co-op number from the 1940's - 149491....

I remember my mum's from the 50s but since I use it for a password ah'm no tellin'.

I started my working life as a Co-op management trainee in 1964. I did a stint in the office when I was involved in administrating membership numbers. In those days numbers were surrendered if someone left or died. I managed to swop my number to 63. I am still a member today, but my number runs to a seventeen figures Never mind, I still get my divi

[meic]

The frame number on my new bike was almost the same as my CTC membership number at the time, so I was sad to lose that CTC number.

[fausto copy]

I've just bought a second hand bike with which I am very pleased (more about that on another thread ). One of my first jobs was to make a note of the frame number (as one should). The nine digits (letter and numbers) comprised (albeit not in the right order):

My six digit date of birth
The two digit number of the house in which I was born
The first letter of the small town where I live.

Should I regard this as significant?

Congratulations on getting your old bike back again.