2012 Kuwahara KE-01 E.T.

This is the original display model that was used by the factory since the launch of the Anniversary edition back in July 2012 and it was the very last KE-01 left in their inventory as of March 2013

During my recent visit to the International Bike Show in Taipei (March 20th / 23rd 2013), I had the opportunity to meet with Mr Takuo and Mr Takashi Kuwahara (Father and son) to discuss a little about their Kuwahara ET.
They explained to me that back in 2002 Kuwahara decided to re-issue 300 bikes using NOS frame sets to celebrate the E.T anniversary and the first year of Universal Studios in Japan under the model KZ-2.5; due to their tremendous success they decided to create a second anniversary run 10 years later now called the Kuwahara KZ-01.The bike pictured here, is the original display model that was used by the factory since the launch of the Anniversary edition in Asia back in July 2012; they made a run of 400 units to be distributed in Japan and another 400 to be sold worldwide, this piece was the very last KE-01 left in their inventory as of March 2013, both of them were very gracious to let me purchase it directly at the show.I will post many other photos in the discussion thread.Thank you for reading.

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