'94 Kona Kilauea - respray 5th Nov

Finally decided to respray a few months ago, thought I should get some pics up. I fell for the colour after seeing Guybe's Cinder Cone. The same paint code from my local supplier came out slightly more blue, which is cool as it means it not a carbon copy of Guybe's.

While it was stripped it was ssent to Argos to have a cable stop brazed on for the v-brakes.

Awesome quality and slightly custom decals by Gil_m.

Also changed to suspension forks as some of the riding I was doing started to aggravate an old injury. Got some new decals from Pace to freshen them up.

It's lost a bit of it's zip due to the forks but that was to be expected, plus I can ride whatever I want without aching for a couple of days.

Hadn't planned on keeping the yellow grips but I don't think they look too bad, still not sure whether to replace them.

Looks amazing! When I saw you had replaced the yellow I didn't see why, then when I scrolled all the way down I can see why. Looks very tidy indeed. A great finish in blue.

I quite like that.

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What sticky, carbon-like chainstay protector is that?

Oooooh, now that's purrrrdddyyyyyyyyy.

What a great looking bike, very tidy. What was the colour?

Beautiful! I to love the color choice. It's amazing how a respray will take a bike right back to day one. With that front fork, it looks like a brand new bike.

Cheers!

That looked fantastic now and loved the stunning colour too, glad you have good taste after me!

The only thing I would def change is the grips to black colour and that will finish it off nicely.

Great effort, if you entry it at BOTM, it will get my vote.

Thanks for the comments guy's. It's always nice to get some positive feedback.

Ratbane, the chainstay protector is made by Mart. I saw it in an Evans shop, I think it's aimed at the road bikes but it happens to fit skinny old steel chainstays too. The best thing is that it's real carbon, don't think I could bring myself to use that fake stuff.

Mossy, the colour code is RAL5018. I imagine every paint suppliers mix will be slightly different, try searching for 'RAL5018' in google images and you'll see what I mean.

Brilliant result mate. I'm well impressed.