** Show us your Modern/retro Kona **

Recently discovered an XTR M970 groupset (including wheels) in the shed and felt the immediate need to build it into something fun. Scoured eBay for a 90’s Kona and found a ‘94 Cinder Cone frame & forks for sale relatively local. Here is the resultant creation. Not sure if it’s finished yet but I’m unsure what else to do to it.
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Wow, that's nice. I'm on the hunt for an M970 wheelset myself.. bought a front hub without questioning the seller enough and it showed up as a centerlock M975 front hub..

Here's my 95 HH running an XTR M970 brakeset and a modern 1x11 XT M8000.
 

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Here’s my 90/91 frame and forks. Back from Argos before Xmas. Should be on the road by the end of the month.
 

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Here’s my 90/91 frame and forks. Back from Argos before Xmas. Should be on the road by the end of the month.

Paint looks nice, looks a bit like the 93 Kilauea paint. 90's had the noodle though, unless you have had it removed with the rack mounts? And why the chromoly tubing badge? would have had a Prestige badge on.
 
Yeah, noodle and rack mounts removed and cable end stop on top tube added. Decals were from Gil. Left them to Argos.
 
That's a 95 fork too (if original) so had a longer AC length that those from 90/91

Shouldn't impact things too much.
 
Explosif all built up and looks good.
 

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