Kona Hot at ebay.de

magas

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The lack of the Hot decal is obviously a concern, as is the poor quality of the photographs. However everything else we can see is consistent with it being a 1998 Hot.

In particular, if the weight of 2.03kg is accurate, it is about 100g lighter than a size 20 1998 Explosif and so that also points to it being a Hot. The 1998 Explosif and Hot were both made of Reynolds 853, but I believe that at least some 98 Hots were built with slimmer top and down tubes than the Explosif, as well as having 853 stays whereas the Explosif stays were Reynolds 725. Those two factors presumably account for the difference in weight.
 

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