Hi. This is my first thread on retrobike. Thought I'd share with you my late 80's Kona Cindercone. I bought this preowned bike in 1990 for £220. It was totally original back then and has always been great fun to ride. Pretty much every week since then I've ridden this bike at some point and it's coped admirably with everything I've thrown at it. Although I used to take it off road, nowadays it's strictly my "middle age spread prevention tool" 
It's been years since anything major went wrong with it (replaced bottom bracket for a sealed one) and just in the last fortnight (June 2017) I've given it its first major overhaul. Alas, the Biopace Hyperglide crankset has now gone :cry: , as has the original rear derailleur and chain. Yes, you read correctly, the original chain!
About 20 years ago the frame of this bike (and my right ankle) got trashed in an incident with my ex's horse. I claimed on the horse insurance policy and the bike was declared scrap by the local Kona dealer (Zoom Cycles in Lytham St Annes, UK). Under the "new for old" policy I got very a similar specced chromolly steel Trek 950. The Trek however was never as good to ride as the Kona so after a few hours with a heavy seat post sized bar and a planishing spoon I managed to bring the Kona's damaged frame back to reasonable shape and resurrected the old bike. From that point on, originality wasn't such a big deal but I didn't want to stray too far. Overall I'm quite pleased with the way the rebuild worked out. The barely used Trek hangs on my garage wall to this day.
So here is my Kona as it stands today....
shod with a new Shimano crankset, chain, rear cassette, chain and derailleur. New Shimano shifter levers, saddle, headset bearings, sealed bottom bracket and 1.5" Schwalbe City Jets. To keep the OG stickers I sprayed around them firstly in white primer and then an off white similar to original. Hence the splatter is mostly now gone.
Hope you like it too!
Ready to roll once again!
It's been years since anything major went wrong with it (replaced bottom bracket for a sealed one) and just in the last fortnight (June 2017) I've given it its first major overhaul. Alas, the Biopace Hyperglide crankset has now gone :cry: , as has the original rear derailleur and chain. Yes, you read correctly, the original chain!
About 20 years ago the frame of this bike (and my right ankle) got trashed in an incident with my ex's horse. I claimed on the horse insurance policy and the bike was declared scrap by the local Kona dealer (Zoom Cycles in Lytham St Annes, UK). Under the "new for old" policy I got very a similar specced chromolly steel Trek 950. The Trek however was never as good to ride as the Kona so after a few hours with a heavy seat post sized bar and a planishing spoon I managed to bring the Kona's damaged frame back to reasonable shape and resurrected the old bike. From that point on, originality wasn't such a big deal but I didn't want to stray too far. Overall I'm quite pleased with the way the rebuild worked out. The barely used Trek hangs on my garage wall to this day.
So here is my Kona as it stands today....
shod with a new Shimano crankset, chain, rear cassette, chain and derailleur. New Shimano shifter levers, saddle, headset bearings, sealed bottom bracket and 1.5" Schwalbe City Jets. To keep the OG stickers I sprayed around them firstly in white primer and then an off white similar to original. Hence the splatter is mostly now gone.
Hope you like it too!
Ready to roll once again!
