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Calling all ET, Kuwahara and Redline experts - Bars question...

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Jazzchimp:
OK, so About 10 years ago I build a part-perfect ET looptail (which still sits proudly at the centre of my collection). But I thuoght it might be fun to replicate the bike from the film. Fook me!! Though that might be easy but it seems no-one knows where to start.

From my research, it's safe to say, Spielberg wanted a chase scene and thought BMXs were the way to go. The studio approached Kuwahara after 40 bikes. They thought it was a piss take and didn't respond. In the meantime they were pointed to 'Everything Bicycles' the main US outlet for Kuwies. They built up some custom KZs for the film.

Right so we know the ET as it was didn't exist. The custom builds could be any parts but logic says whatever the KZ 1 or 2 came with would have been the logical parts rundown.

From spec sheets of stock US KZs it said they had 'REDLINE APPROVED V BARS', were they Kutski/WIN, Nitto or Redline Bars?
And why redline approved? US bars on a Japanese bike sounds odd to me.  Anyone help?


My build with WIN bars

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Compare now the height of these bars on the film bikes




A good shot of Elliott's bars




2x spec sheets from BITD which sight 'REDLINE APPROVED V BARS' as the bars?? What are they?

CustardLips:
Pretty sure they were Win bars. ???

Have a chat with Meticulous and Jaan... they should be able to point you in the right direction.  :daumenhoch:

BMX1973:
 +1 with the Win Bars.


--- Quote from: CustardLips on March 24, 2016, 01:49 PM ---Pretty sure they were Win bars. ???

Have a chat with Meticulous and Jaan... they should be able to point you in the right direction.  :daumenhoch:

--- End quote ---

Jazzchimp:
PM'd Meticulous, waiting for response. Still digging. the ET FB page (yep there is one) are saying they were WIN with a Redline decal on.

NORTY40:
From memory the only difference i found in the Win V bars and the Kusuki redline approved bars was the knurling . I have a set of each here but there in storage at the moment  :daumenhoch:

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