"fake" Ti Konas? Not likely.
I don't recall any discussion of this BITD, so what are the chances that fakes would turn up almost 10 years after they went out of production?
The geometry, welds, chainstay bends, bullet-caps on the rear stays & dropout shape on a HH and KK are all pure Kona, courtesy of Ti-Sports/ TST.
By the time you covered the tooling costs or employed top-level welders to reproduce "faked" versions, you might as well buy them up off Ebay - The HH was the biggest-selling frame that TST made for another brand, so it's not like they never come up for sale.
Myth busted.
Panic over.
As you were.
I don't recall any discussion of this BITD, so what are the chances that fakes would turn up almost 10 years after they went out of production?
The geometry, welds, chainstay bends, bullet-caps on the rear stays & dropout shape on a HH and KK are all pure Kona, courtesy of Ti-Sports/ TST.
By the time you covered the tooling costs or employed top-level welders to reproduce "faked" versions, you might as well buy them up off Ebay - The HH was the biggest-selling frame that TST made for another brand, so it's not like they never come up for sale.
Myth busted.
Panic over.
As you were.
