Kona Track T W O, what to do. (warning, this aint pretty)

[moonlite]

Is it just lens distortion or does that left-hand stanchion have a slight backward bend?

 

[raidan73]

They were available with black legs too, so no issue with powdercoating. A potential might like to colour match them to a frame, so maybe just get them blasted and sell raw?

 

[Spankyfart]

They are straight, must be the picture. When I bought the Switchblades I thought they where bent to bits, but it's the weird angles on them for some odd reason.

 

[FluffyChicken]

Personally, as you're not keeping them.
Sell as a going concern, for HeiHei owners and 1990 owners colour matching to their splatter style.

Unless you like the refurb, would the decals alone take the price out of affordability to sell.


Any the black version as an example.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/kona-track-two-forks.62434/

 

[Spanky22b]

Selling you say My 89 Explosif has no forks and is just hanging around doing nothing

 

[Spankyfart]

Well I have bad news, the person saying the stanchions looked off was right.
Now it's for parts or refurb.

Left leg is bent.
In the end it did clean up sorta ok.

 

[Spankyfart]

I mean, that doesn't look right doesit.
"ti's but a scratch!"

 

[Spudalumps]

I'm sure they're still fine? Surely?

 

[Spanky22b]

Well I have bad news, the person saying the stanchions looked off was right.
Now it's for parts or refurb.

Left leg is bent.
In the end it did clean up sorta ok.



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It sorta doesn't look to bad if you look at it from the front other way not so good
I've got in my head that chopping the left leg off a set of Project Two's and using that would fix the problem
I'm sure there's a way to fix them though coz it'd be a shame to see a good set of forks go to waste.

 

[raidan73]

It sorta doesn't look to bad if you look at it from the front other way not so good
I've got in my head that chopping the left leg off a set of Project Two's and using that would fix the problem
I'm sure there's a way to fix them though coz it'd be a shame to see a good set of forks go to waste.

Do you see the irony in letting a good P2 go to waste in order to give life to an arguably worse fork?