Kona Hei Hei race frame painted 18”
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mklilja
Dirt Disciple
It's titanium
mklilja
Dirt Disciple
It was just painted to look like a Columbus-tubed team Explosif. There used to be a thread about this, but couldn't find it now.
It's not the best description, as already mentioned on this post there were Explosif frames painted in Team colours for this season. Then there were also Hei Hei frames, also painted in team colours for this race season...
It's an interesting frame, but not something I would spank 4 figures on myself TBH.
Best to forget the Explosif reference and think of it as the above. Hope this makes sense
I have seen some reports that said that the team riders did not like the Columbus (a team sponsor at the time) tubed Explosif's so rode Hei Hei's painted in the rasta flames team colours to match them. An alternative report was that Columbus could not supply enough of the tubing to make the teams Explosif's early in the partnership, so the team rode the painted Hei Hei's until they were ready. Either way, I'm glad whatever happened so we get to see frames like this, and bikes like al-onestare's Team Explosif.
mklilja
Dirt Disciple
Well, 1500 CAD is about £880 today, so the marginal cost for the paint and history is of the order of a couple of hundred quid, I suppose. Had it been on eBay, I'd venture a guess the selling price would have been north of £1000.
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