Kona Explosif 1997 team edition

[Adam_S]

Re: Kona Explosif 1997 team edition - hens teeth

Kona can be funny buggers sometimes but they'd be mad to advertise prior year clothing in current year catalogues. They can get away (for the most past) with disguising bikes which they did frequently. Check out the drop-outs on the 97 Explosif shot for example: clearly a 96 re-painted in 97 gold mustard.

Are you sure it's not a '96 Kula?

 

[Adam_S]

Re: Kona Explosif 1997 team edition - hens teeth

Also, the green and yellow Stab is not a stock bike. The one that reached the shops in '98 was blue and yellow.

 

[al-onestare]

Re: Kona Explosif 1997 team edition - hens teeth

Kona can be funny buggers sometimes but they'd be mad to advertise prior year clothing in current year catalogues. They can get away (for the most past) with disguising bikes which they did frequently. Check out the drop-outs on the 97 Explosif shot for example: clearly a 96 re-painted in 97 gold mustard.

Are you sure it's not a '96 Kula?

Nope because of the ovalisation, size of the tubing, etc.

Also, the green and yellow Stab is not a stock bike. The one that reached the shops in '98 was blue and yellow.

Indeed, I was talking about 1 example of advertising and the schema, in this case the stab advert.

Ok, we're going slightly off-tangent here but it's all good!

 

[wadsy]

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[FluffyChicken]

Re: Kona Explosif 1997 team edition - hens teeth

If you want some possible answers, like I said you can chat to the lady who put these things together. Oh and Scott Beaumonts there too who featured in a few ads and..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/5534645 ... 0catalogue
Get access and thirdish post down at the moment on that link, should start you off but there are more posts.

 

[al-onestare]

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Spot on and thank you. I'm already in that group but needed to know whom so that's a great lead. It's a shame the bulk of that groups postings are tosh because gold like that gets lost.

I also have the team manager back in the day and the photographer of that era lined up to speak with. Fingers crossed they don't do a Jeff Lindsay (bless him)

 

[FluffyChicken]

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It's after my time of proper riding so can't help with any who's and what's other than what I picked up.

 

[al-onestare]

Re: Kona Explosif 1997 team edition - hens teeth

Right colour - sort of - wrong steerer length

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marzocchi-Z1- ... Track=true

 

[KermitGKona88]

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Surely he has missed a 1 off the front of that steerer length no way that is an 81mm steerer

 

[Adam_S]

Re: Kona Explosif 1997 team edition - hens teeth

130mm of travel? That might be a bit much.