Good day to you all, thought I best put a few pics up of my newest kona addition.
Picked this up from Chrisv40 about a month ago as a bare frame, had no idea which direction to go in regarding the build but I knew I wanted it!
I'd sourced a lovely set of judys initially to go on my zaskar but after mocking them up on the kona I knew they had to go on!!
So after swapping the crown/steerer for one with a longer steerer length and changing the brace for one with a canti hanger, a lovely new fsa headset was acquired and it was fitted up,threw on some wheels to make her a rolling chassis and dug out my nos xt cantis!
Cantis fitted up and I remembered having some kona race light bars and some kona high command levers too so they all went on!
Cabled her up the other weekend whilst waiting on a bb to arrive to finish her all off and was itching to get her out on the trails already!
Then when the bb landed I fitted the chain and crankset and she was ready to go,did have her finished in time for the peaks ride, however I couldn't get out of work so couldn't make it unfortunately!
Out on the trails for the first time last Wednesday night and loved every second of it, rides better than I could've expected!
Spec:-
1993 Kona Kilauea in 20" size.
Fsa orbit II headset, kona ahead stem, race light handlebars with high command levers, xt thumbs hitters.
Clarks prelube cableset and clarks grips.
NOS xt cantis, kona dog collar and matching seat clamp, thomson elite seatpost and charge spoon seat.
M900 crankset and derailleurs.
Xt hubs with double butted spokes,FIR rim on the rear with a mavic 227 up front, wtb velociraptor tyres front and rear.
Shimano spd pedals.
A very impressive build/spec considering 80% of it was thrown together from my parts bin, albeit a couple of bits were borrowed from others lol.
Comments welcome peeps, John.
Picked this up from Chrisv40 about a month ago as a bare frame, had no idea which direction to go in regarding the build but I knew I wanted it!
I'd sourced a lovely set of judys initially to go on my zaskar but after mocking them up on the kona I knew they had to go on!!
So after swapping the crown/steerer for one with a longer steerer length and changing the brace for one with a canti hanger, a lovely new fsa headset was acquired and it was fitted up,threw on some wheels to make her a rolling chassis and dug out my nos xt cantis!
Cantis fitted up and I remembered having some kona race light bars and some kona high command levers too so they all went on!
Cabled her up the other weekend whilst waiting on a bb to arrive to finish her all off and was itching to get her out on the trails already!
Then when the bb landed I fitted the chain and crankset and she was ready to go,did have her finished in time for the peaks ride, however I couldn't get out of work so couldn't make it unfortunately!
Out on the trails for the first time last Wednesday night and loved every second of it, rides better than I could've expected!
Spec:-
1993 Kona Kilauea in 20" size.
Fsa orbit II headset, kona ahead stem, race light handlebars with high command levers, xt thumbs hitters.
Clarks prelube cableset and clarks grips.
NOS xt cantis, kona dog collar and matching seat clamp, thomson elite seatpost and charge spoon seat.
M900 crankset and derailleurs.
Xt hubs with double butted spokes,FIR rim on the rear with a mavic 227 up front, wtb velociraptor tyres front and rear.
Shimano spd pedals.
A very impressive build/spec considering 80% of it was thrown together from my parts bin, albeit a couple of bits were borrowed from others lol.
Comments welcome peeps, John.
