Pictures soon......
This will be where I detail my re-commission of the 1995 Kona Kula I have owned from new (paid for by house insurance when my specialized epic road bike i’d built myself was stolen out my granddads garage. Was as per catalogue except it had impact cranks and Pace RC35 MXC... only thing I think I changed was elastomers to stiffer ones and V brakes were updated to more modern style as the original brakes were utterly useless.... it’s an Easton elan program 3 frame, ti tec titanium bar, gripshift xray (been flawless since day I bought it), full XT setup, inc hubs and mavic rims) and impact cranks 24 speed iirc.
Anyway over time bikes fell out of favour in my life but even if just to cycle with the wee lass they are coming back to this overweight fat bastard. Hope it will be more than just odd cycle.
Collect bike from my grandads tomorrow and 1st item to make sure I don’t immediately regret it and never use it again has arrived. Discounted on amazon I have one of the inbike saddles which I hope will prevent any injury from being a heavy sod, canny grumble as a few group tests for heavy riders put it top or near top and was down to £17
Other bits to go on are a new headset (well a ritchey one bought on here), Recently serviced pace rc36 evo 3 and a pace stem are to go on (elastomers will be old and fecked and tbh can’t seem to get hard elastomers anywhere) so hopefully the evo 3 should give me some useful suspension travel and suit a heavier weight without really changing the overall look of the bike as it was when I bought it.
If things go well I would like to find a seatpost that will take a little more rear end clatter out as always found it a bit clattery (even when I was fighting fit). Would love carbon or titanium to aid the removal of clatter but tbh don’t think i’ll find one in 27.0mm
After that i’d Like to do something a little flashy with wheels maybe and a few other fun touches but that will come in time
Wish me luck
This will be where I detail my re-commission of the 1995 Kona Kula I have owned from new (paid for by house insurance when my specialized epic road bike i’d built myself was stolen out my granddads garage. Was as per catalogue except it had impact cranks and Pace RC35 MXC... only thing I think I changed was elastomers to stiffer ones and V brakes were updated to more modern style as the original brakes were utterly useless.... it’s an Easton elan program 3 frame, ti tec titanium bar, gripshift xray (been flawless since day I bought it), full XT setup, inc hubs and mavic rims) and impact cranks 24 speed iirc.
Anyway over time bikes fell out of favour in my life but even if just to cycle with the wee lass they are coming back to this overweight fat bastard. Hope it will be more than just odd cycle.
Collect bike from my grandads tomorrow and 1st item to make sure I don’t immediately regret it and never use it again has arrived. Discounted on amazon I have one of the inbike saddles which I hope will prevent any injury from being a heavy sod, canny grumble as a few group tests for heavy riders put it top or near top and was down to £17
Other bits to go on are a new headset (well a ritchey one bought on here), Recently serviced pace rc36 evo 3 and a pace stem are to go on (elastomers will be old and fecked and tbh can’t seem to get hard elastomers anywhere) so hopefully the evo 3 should give me some useful suspension travel and suit a heavier weight without really changing the overall look of the bike as it was when I bought it.
If things go well I would like to find a seatpost that will take a little more rear end clatter out as always found it a bit clattery (even when I was fighting fit). Would love carbon or titanium to aid the removal of clatter but tbh don’t think i’ll find one in 27.0mm
After that i’d Like to do something a little flashy with wheels maybe and a few other fun touches but that will come in time
Wish me luck
