COOL WALL VOTE - "Are Kona's Cool or Uncool"

[jez-4-bikes-max]

End of vote. Pretty clear win...

Ok guys -

Im calling it a day on this voting thread. Thank you for all your submissions and votes. A good discussion of personal tastes and conflicts. Ha!

I guess from the results:

KONAS ARE COOL.



Next voting topic:

"Are purple anodised components cool"

 

[ridevintagemtb]

Christ I hope so... because my lava dome is going to get built with purple bits.

 

[stevet1]

Lol!
Hey maybe at the end of all the cool wall discussions we could put all the cool bits together to create the ultimate 2 wheeled retro machine.
I suspect it would look like Jez's Trimble...

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

ha!

The Trimble is running a pants LX bottom bracket and crappy SRAM cassette haha!

Heres the build:

Trimble Inverse 4 frameset with carbon Roo bar stem combo
Prostop Suspenders forks with disk brake on ritchey rim and straight pull spokes
Disk Drive rear on XT hub
Xc pro thumbies
Rasta Pauls levers
Rasta Pauls rear mech
Green Pauls front mech
Cooks e crank in red
Shimano rings
Lx BB
XT SPDS
White porcs
American Classic silver seatpost
Classic black Flite

 

[toons]

Can’t believe you put Kona’s in the cool category.

I look at a Fat Chance and think that’s cool
I look at a Merlin and think that’s cool
I look at a Pace RC 100 and thinks that’s cool
I look at a Klein Attitude with green\white\red paint and think that’s cool.

I look a Kona and think what a pile of shite.

KONA’S ARE NOT COOL

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

Its over! The war is over....!!

 

[Makrie]

I know it's over - and that Kona's have won (and deservedly so) - but I do think the cool wall should work in finer increments than brands as a whole.

Yes that means it would take longer to populate, but whatever - I don't think any of us begrudge time spent arguing over old bikes!

My call would be, stick Kona Explosif's from say 92 to 94 on the wall as being cool, others to follow at later dates!

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

Blinkin flip - see my earlier thread about the "breakdown" issue:

Are the crank bolts on my 1993 Cindercone cool? Maybe I should break the whole bike down into components too? Maybe I should dissassemble the seatpost and determine whether the first bolt holding the saddle is more cooler than the rear...????

 

[toons]

Kona's aren't cool

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

The next topic is "purple is cool or not cool" - Using the logic you stipulate we could have a section for purple bolts, and say a section for purple Pace fork crowns...the wall will be packed solid and defeats the object I say...