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Kuwahara ET Restoration
dancti:
--- Quote from: splodge on January 29, 2012, 08:38 PM ---Amazing, the pics look stunning. As a proud owner of an ET for 29 years (my bike from back in the day) & its hanging on my wall so I see it everyday I've just spent the last 20 mins gazing at your pics :smitten: You have a Nos ET but what's the history with the restored one, did you buy a rusty F&F & source the bits or was it complete?
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Hi,
The ET was one i'd always wanted to add to my collection which I had been building up over the last 10 years. I bought a complete survivor from the US in 2010 along with another near complete survivor from someone in the UK in who had already had some nos parts ready for a rebuild. Both frames where pretty scratched up and in need of some TLC various parts were wrong or just too knackered for what I was building so I sourced replacements or got parts re anodised. The photos with 2 bikes is it next to the NOS bike as a colour comparison. It's up on ebay now with the full run down as follows:
Bike spec breakdown below:
ET frame & Forks - See 2nd to last pic with 2 frames, the top frame is the NOS bike the bottom is the restored bike i'm selling, you can see how good the paint job is.
Original frame and forks SN: T2I3975 professionally resprayed to a near identical match to NOS bike pictured, most accurate decals on the market. Most are poorly printed so the red shows through the white and have incorrect head-tube and fork graphics.
Kusuki bars - NOS
Sugino stem - NOS
OGK grips - NOS
Hatta Headset - Original headset polished has some minor wear.
Ukai Rims - Re anodised Speedlines.
Suntour Aluminium wide flange hubs - Original Hubs
IRC skinwall tires Kuwahara Branded - This is the only difference on the spec the original spec states IRC 80x skinwall Kuwahara Branded tires. What I have used is a NOS pair of IRC Z-III Kuwahara Branded Tires which are still very very hard to find they are NOS but have a couple of splits when I mounted them nothing major but see pic. The strange one on the spec of tires the 2 NOS E.T I have seen one which I own both have all black IRC 80X tires on not Kuwahara Branded.
Dia Compe 890 calliper - NOS dated 0480, brake cable dated 0380 with original cable clips.
Dia Compe Tech 2 lever - NOS
KKT AMX pedals - NOS
Sugino steel 178 mm cranks - Original dated 82 some wear on crank arm see pic.
Hatta Bottom Bracket Set - Original
Sugino 44t steel chainwheel - NOS
Sugino chainring bolts - NOS
Tahei Elina Seat - Original excellent condition stamped 82.
Nagaoka fluted alloy post - NOS
Suntour forget aluminium seat post clamp - NOS
BMX Chain Adjusters - NOS these are the correct gold colour version not the silver ones that are easy to find.
:)
dancti:
--- Quote from: Hunterdubber on January 29, 2012, 09:18 PM ---Lovely E.T :smitten:
What RAL code did you use for the paint ? ::)
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Hi,
I don't have a code for it but it is was a 3 part process silver base coat, then candy apple red lacquer (This process is termed as a flamboyant colour) and finally the white over spray.
Regards
Dan
dancti:
--- Quote from: 01325jason on January 29, 2012, 08:49 PM ---what sought of money are you wanting outside of ebay?
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Hi,
£1800 paypal inc UK delivery just the bike and i'd take the paypal commission hit
£2000 paypal inc UK delivery with all the extras and i'd take the paypal commission hit
Regards
dancti:
--- Quote from: deeman on January 29, 2012, 09:15 PM ---
--- Quote from: rad_pitt on January 29, 2012, 08:51 PM ---Very nice :smitten: can't help noticing a certain gold BMX bike lurking in the background too :coolsmiley:
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well spotted,didnt see that at first!can we have pics of that too?!! :daumenhoch:
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Hi,
Sure, apologies on
1: The Dust
2: Any Flat Tyres
3: Saggy Chains
4: Non aligned valve caps
5: Non aligned pedals
6: Non aligned crank arms
7: Anything else
I was in a rush i'm suppose to be working, enjoy ;)
http://www.bmxboy.co.uk/collection/
Muffski:
Cracking collection :4_17_5:
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