Bergy
Retro Guru
A few shots of the frame and P2 forks, I am gonna fit the P2’s as the Mag21’s are 10mm shorter in the steerer tube
The Decals came via Gil who told me this
*I'm not sure why they did this, the '93 model was made of Prestige tubing and used a standard down tube decal, but then they did a run of Ultimate tubing frames and used the "venetian blind" down tube decal, your frame appears to be the Prestige tubing with the wrong downtube decal
I've attached a catalogue photo of the '93 model and also the Ultimate tubing "fluted" down tube decal, technically the eBay one is wrong*
Hence the change to decal, I’m not an expert in Kona history despite having spent a couple of years racing for them.
The respray was around £450, that did include stem, forks, decals etc but obviously this is far greater than I suspect I could ever sell the frame set for lolWhen you insanely expensive, how much for the respray?. Contemplating getting my 1992 Kilauea done but will be less complicated as all black.
I’m not sure either lol this was Gil’s reply when I questioned it…Not sure what that means exactly. The Kilauea used a Concept tubeset, the original decal is the blue Prestige Concept decal like the one below. The '93 Explosif had the futted down tube and used the Ultimate tubeset with the Ultrastrong flutted down tube. Second decal below is the '93 Explosif decal and next to that the changed '94 Explosif decal.
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I’m not sure either lol this was Gil’s reply when I questioned it…
Hi,
I'm not sure why they did this, the '93 model was made of Prestige tubing and used a standard down tube decal, but then they did a run of Ultimate tubing frames and used the "venetian blind" down tube decal, your frame appears to be the Prestige tubing with the wrong downtube decal
I've attached a catalogue photo of the '93 model and also the Ultimate tubing "fluted" down tube decal, technically the eBay one is wrong
Ah ha, wish I’d known that earlier as allThat is the same reply you posted earlier
Let me try to clear this up. Is the picture in the first post of this thread the ebay picture? if so that is the right decal. Is the decal you have on the frame at the moment the one Gil sent you? if so it is the wrong decal!
You currently have an Ultimate Ultrastrong decal on the frame, yes? An Ultimate Ultrastrong tube is fluted, like in the picture below, some call it ridged, and has prominent ridges down its length, as found on the Explosif and Hot of that year. The Kilauea does not have an Ultrastrong tube as the downtube.
Personally I would contact Gil and try to sort the correct decal.
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