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Is This the real Deal?
sicura:
Hi,
Any ideas on how to clean the chrome? it looks lke it may have been cleaned with wire wool as there are a lot of little scratches on it.
Any advise would be appreciated.
bodamus:
Peek chrome polish is good :)
KeithyT:
--- Quote from: BMX1973 on April 03, 2012, 06:13 PM ---Am I right in saying some KYZ's have a second hole and some don't?
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From the reading I have done and bikes i have seen pictures of, yes you are right, hence my post above. Some have 2 holes, some 1.
Kuwahara/Tange started making them in 1982 and they were given the official model name of KE-1 (the original 1979 Kuwahara Bike was never given this model number designation apparently).
It then looks like sometime in 1983 the KYZ name stuck, even on the official ads in UK magazines, and was also known as the KY Thrasher is some territories as stated by MartyC above. Some people call them a Chrome ET but as others have said they are half chrome-moly and the geometry is apparently ever so subtly different to the steel ET bikes.
Frosty:
I passed the advert to Jamie along with a few others and I have to say looking at the bike you picked up, looks like only the zeds and seat may have been changed. A bargain indeed.
ozone:
--- Quote from: sicura on April 03, 2012, 06:53 PM ---Hi,
Any ideas on how to clean the chrome? it looks lke it may have been cleaned with wire wool as there are a lot of little scratches on it.
Any advise would be appreciated.
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Check out Bendycat's 'how the Goose got cooked' thread' for a comprehensive guide to reviving old chrome.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=120674.0
Lovely survivor BTW...
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