love or hate it, Kona Kila-Honzo update 04/04/24 shiny stuff added!
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Cheshire1980
Orange 🍊 Fan
Modern with the retro look, nout wrong with that, looks superb and will ride fantastic am sure 
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
Haha proud parent: you sound like those "My kid is an honor student" bumper stickers. Fantastic photography and a great build.
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the sad thing is i have only ridden it on the road to my local brewery so far for a saturday pint, truth be told i don't want to ride it in the current slop that is the new forest! but once the weather gets better in march i'll get out on it as much as possible as i know i like how it rides. in the mean time i have my 2019 P7 which i tend to use as my main winter bike.
Top work for getting it on the cog
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hmm . . . the E wings, i haven't really ridden the bike yet, i'm waiting till the weather is a little better so it'll be march i think before it's in regular rotation!
that said why the Ewings, the reason i went for them was posing . . . yes, i'm a little embarrassed about that but whatever, about 6 months ago i told the Kona rep (who i have known for about 20 years prior to him working in the trade) that i wanted to do this, he said that sounds really cool, well he went to the international sales meeting that happens once a year, this time at the european head office in Monaco, he mentioned it to the US Marketing manager what i was planning, from that point on he was pushing for pictures, it was at this point i realised it was gonna be a Dream build bike, up until that point it was just gonna be something cool for me . . . but with the pressure of a "dream build" it has to be dream spec, because i was gonna be using the Cane Creek fork i thought i'd have a Cane Creek theme, so fork/cranks/headset and BB, the other part theme is the Burgtec parts, bar/stem/pedals etc.
so that's the "why", but to be honest i haven't got an opinion on them yet, they are lovely to look at, and the quality is spot on, would i buy them instead of Sram, yes, absolutely, out of choice i wouldn't run any Sram componentry ever, i think it's a terrible product, promises a lot, and never delivers, terrible material, prone to failing, and wears out very quickly, but i don't want to get in to a sram V shimano boring converstaion, i hate the stuff it's that simple. if i wasn't gonna run E wings i'd choose xt or xtr cranks instead with out thinking of any other crankset out there.
that said why the Ewings, the reason i went for them was posing . . . yes, i'm a little embarrassed about that but whatever, about 6 months ago i told the Kona rep (who i have known for about 20 years prior to him working in the trade) that i wanted to do this, he said that sounds really cool, well he went to the international sales meeting that happens once a year, this time at the european head office in Monaco, he mentioned it to the US Marketing manager what i was planning, from that point on he was pushing for pictures, it was at this point i realised it was gonna be a Dream build bike, up until that point it was just gonna be something cool for me . . . but with the pressure of a "dream build" it has to be dream spec, because i was gonna be using the Cane Creek fork i thought i'd have a Cane Creek theme, so fork/cranks/headset and BB, the other part theme is the Burgtec parts, bar/stem/pedals etc.
so that's the "why", but to be honest i haven't got an opinion on them yet, they are lovely to look at, and the quality is spot on, would i buy them instead of Sram, yes, absolutely, out of choice i wouldn't run any Sram componentry ever, i think it's a terrible product, promises a lot, and never delivers, terrible material, prone to failing, and wears out very quickly, but i don't want to get in to a sram V shimano boring converstaion, i hate the stuff it's that simple. if i wasn't gonna run E wings i'd choose xt or xtr cranks instead with out thinking of any other crankset out there.
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