tv vt: it would be nice to see it in the pictures
wildboar: this is the code of the painting pattern - the codes were introduced in EMC probably in 1984 when the Team Issue series was produced. They were placed on cards glued to the steering tube, they appeared in catalogues (not all of them) in 1989. The codes were introduced in "generations", at the beginning they were simple abbreviations: MOL - Molteni, FA - Faema etc.in catalogue 89 (not GITA) there are codes with the letter P at the end: AP - ADR, VOP - Domex, NP - Hitachi, QP - Stuttgart (BJP - La William is nice, unusual SE - 7-Eleven). The next generation (shown in catalogue 92) are the codes with the letter T at the beginning: TM - Motorola, TC - Weinmann 91, TG - Telekom, TB - Kelme 91 and the legendary TF - Tutti Frutti (and the unusual RF - red Ferrari) and (shown in catalogue 94) TFR and the equally legendary TAL - Rainbow. In catalogue 94, codes with the letter B appear at the beginning: BDO (dark blue), BRG (green) and BWB (as in Lotto Caloi 94), and unusual R-red and J-yellow. In the 95 catalogue there appears the VL code - team Vlaanderen 2002 and our hero FNG which is the announcement of the next generation (the 96 catalogue) of codes with the letters FN at the beginning: FNB, FNE, FNR, FNP (note: the last letter seems to describe the main color - P purple, R - red, B - blue, G -...isn't that very dark green?). In addition, in 96 there are SG and SV (new generation with S at the beginning?) and unusual WX (white) and PS (black). The last generation (which I was interested in) is shown in the catalogue 1998 - the codes start with RA: RAB (dark blue), RAJ (yellow), RAT (turquoise), RAR (red), RAW (white) and RAZ (black?).
As you can see there is no single method to decipher the code, the additional letters (i.e. those outside the series designation) are: basic colors (R-red, B- blue, J-jaune = yellow) or the team painting code designation or the team name abbreviation.
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