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Now that's special. Beautiful and those welds are bad-boy. Thanks for sharing!
Now that's special. Beautiful and those welds are bad-boy. Thanks for sharing!
Kona Hot 1997
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romanrinos
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That’s a fabulous find and a real beauty Al. Congrats. Looks like an 19” frame? Looking forward to see that built.
That’s a fabulous find and a real beauty Al. Congrats. Looks like an 19” frame? Looking forward to see that built.
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Cheers! Yep it's 19" so it'll be as close as comparison with the Explosif's. I'm really curious to feel the differences between the two tube-sets. I'm a massive fan of the Columbus Genius "ping" feel.
romanrinos":1abcdutk said:
Cheers! Yep it's 19" so it'll be as close as comparison with the Explosif's. I'm really curious to feel the differences between the two tube-sets. I'm a massive fan of the Columbus Genius "ping" feel.
Re: Kona Hot 1997 - 7th heaven
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Re: Kona Hot 1997 - 7th heaven
Thanks just got sent a couple of pics off Al too, cheers Al.
Well, it was definatly worth the wait, beautiful design and colours. They remind me of a couple of older Kona's but look darker/deeper shades in the pics. Bet your well happy, and a 19" too
I know there is already lots of info on tubeset etc but when did they start using the 853? and is it full 853? cant wait to see more.
I think i prefer that colour combo over the Rasta flame version, very nice
Mark
caemis":1lrlgs5e said:Here you go. Hope it works...:
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just got sent a couple of pics off Al too, cheers Al.Well, it was definatly worth the wait, beautiful design and colours. They remind me of a couple of older Kona's but look darker/deeper shades in the pics. Bet your well happy, and a 19" too
I know there is already lots of info on tubeset etc but when did they start using the 853? and is it full 853? cant wait to see more.
I think i prefer that colour combo over the Rasta flame version, very nice
Mark
Re: Kona Hot 1997 - 7th heaven
A great question - it was the first one I was going to ask the forum when I had the frame in my hands I'd love to know from the greater good who still read this site!
I'm no tubing expert but I was going to check diameters, etc. I've searched and I can't find anything concrete that says for sure or not whether they were 100% 853. I'll stick my neck out and say that if Kona decided to have a 100% Max Explosif for 1997 at a presumably crazy cost or deal, then I reckon they did the same here.
That said, there has to be a caveat that because it's Altitude built, it could be anything
mkone":78uisi0e said:
A great question - it was the first one I was going to ask the forum when I had the frame in my hands
I'd love to know from the greater good who still read this site!I'm no tubing expert but I was going to check diameters, etc. I've searched and I can't find anything concrete that says for sure or not whether they were 100% 853. I'll stick my neck out and say that if Kona decided to have a 100% Max Explosif for 1997 at a presumably crazy cost or deal, then I reckon they did the same here.
That said, there has to be a caveat that because it's Altitude built, it could be anything
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Re: Kona Hot 1997 - 7th heaven
You may remember these two posts, from a guy called JeffB:
Quote, "My partner and I started Enigma Design and Manufacturing in Dec of 1996. If my memory serves me correctly I think Altitude could/would not build bikes from 853. So we built 100 Hot's and Ku's and then Reynolds had a huge problem delivering 853 so we/Kona stopped building. I believe Kona stopped selling USA frames when they ran out of the bikes we had built for them. I could be mistaken on that though, I don't know how many USA made frames those guys went through in a year."
.....and this
Quote, "On a side note. I have seen people incorrectly state that all 853 frames have 853 tubing as the main triangle but not the chainstays or seatstays this is incorrect. We got the first all 853 tubesets produced by Reynolds and made the first entirely all 853 frames for the HOT's including chainstays and seatstays."
The quote features in you Caldera thread - scroll down to Mon Feb 01, 2016 8:50 am :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=337664&p=2550039&hilit
The piece came from here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32150&p=220873#p220873
Pip
al-onestare":35spivyw said:mkone":35spivyw said:
A great question - it was the first one I was going to ask the forum when I had the frame in my hands
I'm no tubing expert but I was going to check diameters, etc. I've searched and I can't find anything concrete that says for sure or not whether they were 100% 853. I'll stick my neck out and say that if Kona decided to have a 100% Max Explosif for 1997 at a presumably crazy cost or deal, then I reckon they did the same here.
That said, there has to be a caveat that because it's Altitude built, it could be anything
You may remember these two posts, from a guy called JeffB:
Quote, "My partner and I started Enigma Design and Manufacturing in Dec of 1996. If my memory serves me correctly I think Altitude could/would not build bikes from 853. So we built 100 Hot's and Ku's and then Reynolds had a huge problem delivering 853 so we/Kona stopped building. I believe Kona stopped selling USA frames when they ran out of the bikes we had built for them. I could be mistaken on that though, I don't know how many USA made frames those guys went through in a year."
.....and this
Quote, "On a side note. I have seen people incorrectly state that all 853 frames have 853 tubing as the main triangle but not the chainstays or seatstays this is incorrect. We got the first all 853 tubesets produced by Reynolds and made the first entirely all 853 frames for the HOT's including chainstays and seatstays."
The quote features in you Caldera thread - scroll down to Mon Feb 01, 2016 8:50 am :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=337664&p=2550039&hilit
The piece came from here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32150&p=220873#p220873
Pip
