Help with Retro Kona Bike

[jenorton]

I'm a mechanic at our local non-profit community bike shop. When I was digging through our donation inventory I ran into this bike (see attached photo). It is a single speed Kona with a Joe Murray Futureshock suspension fork. Has that 80's clunker look. This bike will restore well as it is in decent condition. There is not much in the way of identification other than a Kona decal on the chainstay and a Kona logo head badge. Has anyone seen on of these. Year? Model?
Thanks, any tips are appreciated. I update the post with a serial number if I can find one.

 

[jenorton]

Ok, I guess I should have started with a search ... it seems I have a Kona Humuhumu

 

[Stretch79]

There’s a retro Kona group on fb you may want to join. Super helpful and loads in there

 

[konacarl]

Not may pairs of those forks around!

 

[kafer-k]

Looks to be a 1995 Humuhumu but the fork is 1992. As said, the fork is rare, albeit because it was an unsuccessful design and consequently shortlived. It was never sold as standard equipment on any of the bikes, only as an optional extra. Original stock was reportedly disposed of as deemed unsafe to ride. Although it functioned so poorly with just 1.2" travel, it is still collectable and may be worth selling separately and replacing with a project two fork. I for one would be interested to know your price on the fork if you were to sell separately.

 

[al-onestare]

As mentioned this is a 1995 Humhumu. It was only available in North America so fairly rare.

The forks are the star here for the reason already mentioned. If you are able to, if you could share some close up pictures of the shock elastomers and even better a few dimensions, width, height etc, that would be incredibly useful. Technical information about them is severely limited because of its failures.

 

[KlunkerKingUK]

...and there was me thinking I had the only 'FutureShock' equipped Humu in the UK!?

I'd be interested in details/dimensions of the elastomers too (although at least the rock solid die spring on mine means there's no movement at the lower linkages, and slightly less chance of catastrophic failure and death! )