Howie later worked as a consultant in the bicycle industry for several companies, including Rotor Componentes of Spain. In 1992, Cohen returned to the bicycle industry to assist the Gary Fisher bike brand - 18 months later brokering the acquisition of Gary Fisher Mountain Bikes by Trek Bicycle Corporation. In 1989, Cohen sold the Kuwahara name back to the Japanese parent company. and securing the right to market the 'ET Bicycle.' To make make the Kuwahara brand name a household word, Cohen ran a promotion giving free stickers to children who called a toll-free phone number and could correctly pronounce the brand name. Howie Cohen later founded the company Everything Bicycles, working with Kuwahara to build and import BMX bikes carrying the Kuwahara brand name, developing the first major BMX distributorship - and ultimately supplying Kuwahara bicycles for the 1982 movie E.T. If the number starts with a K, the frame was made by Kinesis. If the frame was made overseas in Taiwan, it gets more complicated. The last four digits are the serialization digits 0000 to 9999 depending on what number the frame was of the years production. The first four numbers should be a two digit month followed by a two digit year. At the time, I based this on the frame number on the right drop out and the front derailer which had an October 1982, Suntour date code. I believe I found this about a year ago, just before I picked up the Century I previously posted.
The first Nishiki road bike I found was this Sport. Various Shimano stem shifters were used on the. The KSxxxxx serial number under the BB just about clinches it - you have a Nishiki or American Eagle, built by Kawamura Bicycles (KB) of Japan. The serial number indicates that the bike frame.
This is a used vintage nishiki 14-speed road bike unknown model serial number ks-188661.
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