RS numbers w/Dean's decoder

["John Van Deren" <r11rider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must have too much time on my hands, but this was a fun release from work
stress.

I entered numbers into the VIN decoder that Dean sent to the list.  On it I
found the first serial number for the RS to end in 0280930 with a production
date of 01/92!   And mine, built in March 93, is really a late model '94 RS!

John Van Deren
Montpelier, VT

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Wegner" <deanwegner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <oilheads@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: How to decode a VIN number


> The following link was posted a while back on the IBMWR tech list.
> It takes a VIN number and tells you the model number and manufacturing
> date.
>
> http://www.bmw-z1.com/VIN/VINdecode-e.cgi
>
> The site doesn't tell you what the numbers mean, but it might give you
> some more clues as to how a VIN is put together.
>
> Best
> Dean Wegner
> '96 R1100RT
> West Bend, WI
>
> --- Robert Silas <robert.silas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > John,
> > The serial number of my '94 R1100RS is:
> >
> > WB1041101R0291658
> >
> > I cannot make out a date, neither a year nor a month.  I really do not
> > know what the assembly of these digits represents.
> > Bob
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: John Van Deren
> >   To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx
> >   Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:15 AM
> >   Subject: Re: More beta RS blather..
> >
> >
> >   Eric,
> >
> >   My RS number ends in R0310080, which I thought meant that it is the
> > 80th
> >   unit built (or perhaps the 10,080th one).  I also thought the numbers
> > 31
> >   were in each serial number for the '94's, meaning yours was the 977th
> > built.
> >   The tag also says, 3/93.  I did not think to write Bob's number down,
> > but
> >   the last seven digits were very different (no 3 or 31 in his, a 28 I
> > seem to
> >   remember - perhaps a much earlier bike)...still with 3/93 date.  Could
> > BMW
> >   have built 10K RS's in one month? It's not particularly important, but
> > I'm
> >   curious at what number they started the RS run.  It would give us an
> > idea
> >   how many of these early bikes are around.

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