Rambouillet Serial #'s?

[rob markwardt]

Hi,
Any rhyme or reason to Rambouillet serial numbers? I was looking at
one on ebay last night and noticed the ser. # was RB0280 (an older
orange one). I've got a later green one (RB1163). Did they just go
in order or is there any method to the madness?


Rob Markwardt

[Bruce]

They went in order of manufacture, generally speaking. When I asked John at RBW how many were made, he replied: Less than totally clean numbers-    Frames: 693. Complete bikes: 432 And this was at July 2007. Not many more were made after that. --- On Thu, 11/18/10, rob markwardt <robm...@hotmail.com> wrote:

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[Jack]

I wonder if the 693 frames includes the 432 that were sold as complete
bikes, or was the total number of frames more like the the sum of the
two? I assume the latter because Rob says he has #1163.

Whatever, the Ram was a wonderful and somewhat rare bike and I value
mine highly. It is one of the early ones - orange, serial number under
RB0200. I bought it used so I don't know when it was made. Maybe in
2002?

On Nov 18, 5:27 am, Bruce <fullylug...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> They went in order of manufacture, generally speaking. When I asked John at RBW how many were made, he replied:
>
> Less than totally clean numbers- 
>   Frames: 693. Complete bikes: 432
>
> And this was at July 2007. Not many more were made after that.
>

> --- On Thu, 11/18/10, rob markwardt <robmar...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> From: rob markwardt <robmar...@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [RBW] Rambouillet Serial #'s?
> To: "RBW Owners Bunch" <rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 12:24 AM
>
> Hi,
>   Any rhyme or reason to Rambouillet serial numbers?  I was looking at
> one on ebay last night and noticed the ser. # was RB0280 (an older
> orange one).  I've got a later green  one (RB1163).  Did they just go
> in order or is there
>  any method to the madness?
>
> Rob Markwardt
>
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[Bruce]

They were separate #s. Add them up to get the total. Interesting that most bikes were sold as frame sets only. I ride # 841 myself, and agree with your assessment. Mine was a complete bike, and I have tried it with a racier set up, but gone back to a more all purpose attitude. --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Jack <jhube...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[NickBull]

But the SN's must not be precisely sequential, or at least something
is "off" since SN #1163 is greater than the "total made" =
693+432=1125

Mine is RB0453.

Nick

On Nov 18, 10:40 am, Bruce <fullylug...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> They were separate #s. Add them up to get the total. Interesting that most bikes were sold as frame sets only. I ride # 841 myself, and agree with your assessment. Mine was a complete bike, and I have tried it with a racier set up, but gone back to a more all purpose attitude.
>

> --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Jack <jhuber1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Bruce]

My email exchange with John was prior to the end of the run. --- On Thu, 11/18/10, NickBull <nick.bi...@gmail.com> wrote:

[CycloFiend]

on 11/18/10 9:40 AM, NickBull at nick.bi...@gmail.com wrote:

> But the SN's must not be precisely sequential, or at least something
> is "off" since SN #1163 is greater than the "total made" =
> 693+432=1125
>
> Mine is RB0453.

Is yours an orange Rambouillet? I sort of (not anywhere to verify right
now) recall that there was a bit of a production gap between the first run
(orange) and the first blue runs (separate printed flyer). It wouldn't
suprise me if they restarted the s/n's at RB1XXX with the new run. But this
is conjecture on my part.

In other words, can anyone supply a low-numbered (under 1000) factory-blue
Rambouillet serial number?

Thanks for playing!

- Jim

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[Bruce]

RB841 is blue and is in the Fiend's gallery --- On Thu, 11/18/10, CycloFiend <cyclo...@earthlink.net> wrote:

[Jon Grant]

Jim Edgar asked:

. . . can anyone supply a low-numbered (under 1000) factory-blue

Rambouillet serial number?

Thanks for playing!

- Jim

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My wife’s blue Rambouillet is serial # RB0613, and it came to us as a whole bike in 2004, maybe.

Jon “What’s my name again?” Grant, in, uh, lessee now — oh yeah!
Austin, Texas

[Michael_S]

not mine... Green RB01120

~Mike~

[David Faller]

I bought my Ram in July 2007, and it's RB1135, so THAT doesn't add up.  Maybe I bought the last one ever made (I doubt it).

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[Steve Hemmelgarn]

Not me either... Blue 1017

 

Steve

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Subject: [RBW] Re: Rambouillet Serial #'s?

[Angus]

RB0363 - 64cm Orange received as a frame early 2003.

Angus

On Nov 18, 2:21 pm, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> on 11/18/10 9:40 AM, NickBull at nick.bike.b...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But the SN's must not be precisely sequential, or at least something
> > is "off" since SN #1163 is greater than the "total made" =
> > 693+432=1125
>
> > Mine is RB0453.
>
> Is yours an orange Rambouillet?  I sort of (not anywhere to verify right
> now) recall that there was a bit of a production gap between the first run
> (orange) and the first blue runs (separate printed flyer).  It wouldn't
> suprise me if they restarted the s/n's at RB1XXX with the new run.  But this
> is conjecture on my part.
>
> In other words, can anyone supply a low-numbered (under 1000) factory-blue
> Rambouillet serial number?
>
> Thanks for playing!
>
> - Jim
>
> --
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> Cyclofi...@earthlink.net
>
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[thalasin]

RB031. Orange, of course. 58cm, purchased on Ebay in fall '03.

Tracy

[Leslie]

Mine is from the tail end of the run. Knew it was because of the mid-
stay mounts on a green frame, but hadn't thought of wondering about
the serial number.

RB1207

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leslie_bright/5191794883/in/photostream/

Taken when it came out of the box the day I brought the frame home.
Had put it on layaway at just before Thanksgiving, a year ago.

I bought the frame from MSL, in Bristol, one of the RBW dealers.
Being a shop that has bikes, fly-fishing gear, camping gear, kayaks,
etc., it seems likely that the frame was made in late 2007, possibly
early 2008, shipped to them mid or late 2008, and wasn't until 2009
when I finally bit the bullet.

[NickBull]

Yes, RB0453 is orange.

On Nov 18, 3:21 pm, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> on 11/18/10 9:40 AM, NickBull at nick.bike.b...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But the SN's must not be precisely sequential, or at least something
> > is "off" since SN #1163 is greater than the "total made" =
> > 693+432=1125
>
> > Mine is RB0453.
>
> Is yours an orange Rambouillet?  I sort of (not anywhere to verify right
> now) recall that there was a bit of a production gap between the first run
> (orange) and the first blue runs (separate printed flyer).  It wouldn't
> suprise me if they restarted the s/n's at RB1XXX with the new run.  But this
> is conjecture on my part.
>
> In other words, can anyone supply a low-numbered (under 1000) factory-blue
> Rambouillet serial number?
>
> Thanks for playing!
>
> - Jim
>
> --
> Jim Edgar

> Cyclofi...@earthlink.net
>
> Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com

> Current Classics - Cross Bikes
> Singlespeed - Working Bikes
>

> Gallery updates now appear here -http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com

[mr.trout]

my blue is rb0853

[Mitch]

Blue Ram RB0750 purchased as a complete bike early 2005 at Riv.
Mitch

[Thomas Nezovich]

Rambouillet 0287 is orange; as you would expect.

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[DAVID BLESSING]

 

RBOO40  is mine. . . orange, purchased from RBW.  david blessing

[Leslie]

Just trying to sort the ranges:

Orange at the beginning.
RB0453 is Nick's orange Ram.

-1st Change- between 453 and 613

RB0613 is Jon's wife's blue Ram.
RB1017 is Steve's blue Ram.

-2nd Change- between 1017 and 1120

RB1120 is Michael's green Ram.
RM1207 is my green Ram.

Last Ram was... ? (At least 1207 of them, if the numbering was
indeed continuous.)

Any numbers between 453 and 613, and between 1017 and 1120, will help
narrow the color-changeovers (and any above 1207, for the total).

[Leslie]

PS: custom colors disregarded (yet, we all know that there's plenty
of them out there!).

[GeorgeS]

I was just catching up with the posts and saw this thread. I've got
RB0219. Blue. Purchased in 2005 from Peter White.
George Strickler

On Nov 18, 2:21 pm, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> on 11/18/10 9:40 AM, NickBull at nick.bike.b...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But the SN's must not be precisely sequential, or at least something
> > is "off" since SN #1163 is greater than the "total made" =
> > 693+432=1125
>
> > Mine is RB0453.
>
> Is yours an orange Rambouillet?  I sort of (not anywhere to verify right
> now) recall that there was a bit of a production gap between the first run
> (orange) and the first blue runs (separate printed flyer).  It wouldn't
> suprise me if they restarted the s/n's at RB1XXX with the new run.  But this
> is conjecture on my part.
>
> In other words, can anyone supply a low-numbered (under 1000) factory-blue
> Rambouillet serial number?
>
> Thanks for playing!
>
> - Jim
>
> --
> Jim Edgar

> Cyclofi...@earthlink.net
>
> Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com

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[Leslie]

That means, assuming that that was originally blue and not a custom
color, that there is overlap in the color runs, not discrete
changeovers..

[SStalcup]

I have RB0600 sold by Peter White as a frame.

On Nov 18, 12:21 pm, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> on 11/18/10 9:40 AM, NickBull at nick.bike.b...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But the SN's must not be precisely sequential, or at least something
> > is "off" since SN #1163 is greater than the "total made" =
> > 693+432=1125
>
> > Mine is RB0453.
>
> Is yours an orange Rambouillet?  I sort of (not anywhere to verify right
> now) recall that there was a bit of a production gap between the first run
> (orange) and the first blue runs (separate printed flyer).  It wouldn't
> suprise me if they restarted the s/n's at RB1XXX with the new run.  But this
> is conjecture on my part.
>
> In other words, can anyone supply a low-numbered (under 1000) factory-blue
> Rambouillet serial number?
>
> Thanks for playing!
>
> - Jim
>
> --
> Jim Edgar

> Cyclofi...@earthlink.net
>
> Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com

> Current Classics - Cross Bikes
> Singlespeed - Working Bikes
>

> Gallery updates now appear here -http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com

[Frederick, Steve]

My orange one's RB0202, still spiffily sporting the white tape/saddle combo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40738390@N08/4479756577/

Anyone got a double-digit one? (or single!?)

Steve

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[Bruce]

Looking great there Steve. I'm taking RB 841 (blue) out for a 70 - 80 miler this frosty (32F) morning. Double layer wool is the order of the morning! --- On Sat, 11/27/10, Frederick, Steve <fred...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote:

[Angus]

That looks really nice Steve!

How did you attach the SuperFlash rear light?...it almost looks like
it us capture by the quick release.

Thanks

Angus

On Nov 27, 6:27 am, "Frederick, Steve" <frede...@mail.lib.msu.edu>
wrote:

>  winmail.dat
> 5KViewDownload

[Ken Mattina]

RB0538 for my bic pen blue rambuillet

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Where did my go go?
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[SStalcup]

And its blue. Sorry to forget that.

[MichaelH]

Somehow or other I allowed myself to get drawn into this impossible
conversation! Mine is also 2005, blue, purchased at retail, as a
whole bike - RB 0716.

While were on #s we can't make sense of, my 62 cm bike weighs 24.5 lbs
with Honjo fenders and a Mark's mini rack, saddle and pedals.. I'm
guessing that's down toward the low end of avg. by a lb or two.

Michael

[Frederick, Steve]

Thanks! I got more compliments on the bike since I put on the white accents last spring than I have in all the years I've owned it.

The superflash mount--I just ran a brazeon/waterbottle screw though the hole for the screw that mounts the quick release mount to the seatpost clamp. Hole was a little small but it's plastic so the bolt cut threads as I turned it in. It works okay but tends to rotate down over time...

[Lungimsam]

My blue 54 Rambouillet is RB 1222. Hilsen lugs and two sets of braze-ons on the seatstays. None on forks. 

[Leslie]

Ha!  This is the thread from six years ago where I started trying to fun the numbers on the serial number breaks between colors, trying to figure out how many of each color was made, what ended up on cyclofiend.com's Ram page.

My green Ram is RB1207, and has the mid-fork braze-ons; your number as RB1222 is even higher than mine, and is blue.  Yours totally breaks the pattern.   Neat. 

There has to be something special about it.   I mean, it's the highest-numbered Ram I know of, but it's blue instead of green.   I almost wonder if someone near the very end of the Ram line said, I want one, but in blue...



Also, FWIW... my son's orange Ram is RB0944:  by range, it should've been a blue bike:  but, it IS a 66, so since it's really tall, it may have been handled differently for assembly/brazing...  

[Leslie]

Oh, somewhere along the line, there's a typo:   my number really is an RB number, not RM... that's a typo...

[Lungimsam]

Haha! As you know, Leslie, I just got one! So I thought I'd throw my stats in there.
In all the excitement leading up to getting the frame set I started reading the threads on Rambouillets.

[gpgun...@aol.com]

I just found this site. FWIW, I have an Atlantis and a green Rambouillet purchased as frames new from Rivendell (October2006). The Rambouillet serial number is (RB 1100)

Cheers

Gunner
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