Kona Explosif Pro 1992 by Dimoni

[Retro_Roy]

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thanks guys.
going to be a cool looking bike.

 

[Davichin]

A stunning start!

 

[aguycalled80]

Sorry Roy, but my english it´s not very good,, other people can explain you better than me, about why it was a failure.

My brother had one. It worked in a straight line, more or less, but if you turned a corner, it was a nightmare. No matter how much you cranked up the preload on the shock, the front wheel was just all over the place.

 

[Canuck]

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I seem to recall hearing the story that Kona had so many problems/complaints with their linkage forks that in
the end they took all their remaining stock, loaded them all onto a rusty old barge, floated it out into the middle of nowhere and sank it.

Very cool/rare fork

Is that a Columbus sticker on the seat tube?

 

[raidan73]

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I seem to recall hearing the story that Kona had so many problems/complaints with their linkage forks that in
the end they took all their remaining stock, loaded them all onto a rusty old barge, floated it out into the middle of nowhere and sank it.

Very cool/rare fork

Is that a Columbus sticker on the seat tube?

Evening mate

The Straight of San Juan de Fuca I read!

 

[jimi911]

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I've ridden that fork. Great piece of nostalgia ... Not performance.

Can't be too many of those left.

 

[Canuck]

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I seem to recall hearing the story that Kona had so many problems/complaints with their linkage forks that in
the end they took all their remaining stock, loaded them all onto a rusty old barge, floated it out into the middle of nowhere and sank it.

Very cool/rare fork

Is that a Columbus sticker on the seat tube?

Evening mate

The Straight of San Juan de Fuca I read!

Hello Adrian mate,

You've heard the story too? Like Luca Brasi they be "sleepin' with the fishes"

 

[raidan73]

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Hello Adrian mate,

You've heard the story too? Like Luca Brasi they be "sleepin' with the fishes"

Lets charter a salvage boat and buy a lot of polishing mops

 

[Dimoni]

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I seem to recall hearing the story that Kona had so many problems/complaints with their linkage forks that in
the end they took all their remaining stock, loaded them all onto a rusty old barge, floated it out into the middle of nowhere and sank it.

Very cool/rare fork

Is that a Columbus sticker on the seat tube?

This sticker its a mistake, the frame its restored, and the properly sticker its the Tange Prestige,.... that ones courtesy of Gil

The USE decals its for another project, the other ones its for the Future Shock fork.

S!

 

[raidan73]

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This is going to look great Javier. I can tell you're putting in a real effort with it