King Kahuuuuuna šŸ˜

Monkeeee01

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Soā€¦.. most of you will be familiar with this frame which @Splatter Paint kindly sold me last week!

Plan to is build it up with modern gear to make it different, and to make use of the pretty unique disc tab which Iā€™ve been told Pip believed was factory installed by Kona despite it being a 97 frame (itā€™s on the register under 97).

Iā€™m probably going to change the decals to the yellow 97 ones too.

First job atm is trying to decide which forks to get, Iā€™m looking at a few pairs of Fox around the 100-120mm range to get something that looks cool and doesnā€™t flex at all (Iā€™m done with Rockshox SIDā€™s flexing left, right and centre).

Any recommendations on forks and wheels will be greatfully recieved! Thinking Hope hubs and I want some really fancy looking rims (so I could be tempted by some Crossmax SLRā€™s too).

Will keep posting back progress on here, but itā€™s likely not going to be a quick build as Iā€™m going to take my time sourcing the parts I want and I donā€™t have all the cash to throw at it atm.

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Why not get a set of Fox Float F100's from around that time? I'm sure that's what I had on mine. Went well enough.

In fact I've even got a set of Fox Talas that go from 85-130 you can buy šŸ˜‰
 
thanks, Iā€™ve got a couple of pairs of Fox F100 from that era but I want to do a more modern build on this one tbh to make it different

Iā€™m looking at these, I know they will be heavier and 120mm might be a bit much but I think they will look really cool and ride well with modern disc wheels

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Just a thoughtā€¦.. 80mm travel fork but 27.5ā€ wheel?!? :eek:

Iā€™ve never seen a mullet HHKK before.

The axle-crown measurements will be the killer on a modern fork. The F100 was fine with a short stem and risers, but awful on flat bar.
 
Yeah my mechanic suggested a mullet 27.5 set up on the front but a Quick Look at EBay and I couldnā€™t find a single 27.5 fork that didnā€™t have a tapered steerer!!
 

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