A recent impulse ebay purchase that had been left outside in the sellers garden for quite some time. The frame was in a pretty sorry state but plenty of time, polish and elbow grease and it came up a treat.
It was a full bike but the only bits worth keeping were the farme, forks, stem, headset and Dx thumbies, the rest was either binned or put on ebay.

Anyway spec and pics to follow, I really should have taken some decent pics before I got it all muddy at todays Binbrook ride
The 1st Kona I have ever owned and I'm loving the ride already.

Frame: 19" 1994 Kona Lava Dome

Fork: Project 2 Triple Butted

Headset: Impact
Stem: Velocity
Handlebar: Syncros
Barends: X-Lite Stubbies

Brakes: Avid SD 2
Brake Pads: Clarks cartridge
Brake Cables: Shimano
Brake Levers: Xt M739

Shifters: Deore Thumbies
Front Derailleur: Xt M735
Rear Derailleur: Xt M735
Derailleur Cables: Shimano
Cassette: Shimano ?
Chain: Shimano
Cranks: Xt M730
Chainrings: Xt inner & Middle, Xtr Outer
Bottom Bracket: UN54
Pedals: Coda Spd's

Hub Skewers: Halo Hex Skewers
Rims: Mavic 231CD
Hubs: Xt M730/732
Tyres: Schwalbe Rocket Ron
Tubes: Specialized

Saddle: Original Avocet
Seatpost: Ritchey Style
Seatpost Binder: Original Kona

Weight: 24.4 lbs

Looking good and great colour too

Wow I like that...

Seems like you gave the frame plently of TLC...

doesn't seem any surface rust either.

brilliant

my favourite colour and year, and model, thats why I have one myself (also because I owned one as a kid)

Looked great in the flesh on Sunday.

Go on Chris, show 'em your neat trick on the rear brake cable!

Thanks for the kind comments.

Al I will take a pic of the rear brake cable mod as soon as I can get to it in the daylight

That does look nice.
With the old school thumbies that bar looks very clean and unclutered.
This site is going to cost me a fortune.

I love mine too...
Need to get some thumbies on there, am running 8 speed Gripshift presently which work well but don't have the look. Original cranks polished up look great I think.

Looks good Chris, rides nice too.
Any other plans or is this finito?

That looks ace, ive just got myself a '94 Lava Dome same colour aswell, mines just frame and forks for now but ill get some pics up once i start to collect parts for it!


What have you done to allow the use of rear V's with the canti stop, we just used to use a piece of outer cable between the removeable stop on the seat tube to the V brake noodle, back when we were skint young kids and couldnt afford the proper bolt on V brake stops lol

Spudly, we are just skint grown up kids now

You'll see it out on a ride soon too, probably if he doesn't mind it getting muddy again.
The bolt on v-brake things look a bit ugly too.

It's a V-pipe as normal, and a cutdown-upside down v-pipe into the dog collar and a short bit of outercable.
Looks neat and tidy and works.

Pics coming

I drilled the cable hole in the dog collar just enough for a cut down v brake noodle to be a snug fit, don't drill right through the collar!

Then a short length of outer brake cable between the 2 noodles makes a nice tidy job. I was lucky in that the 2 noodle pipes lined up perfectly but I'm sure they can be bent if yours don't achieve the correct angle.

Sorry about the pics its dark in the shed and the bike hasn't been properly cleaned since Sundays Binbrook ride.

Thanks Dave

Yes its finished, well it is when the 2.1 rear tyre arrives to stop that annoying rubbing.

Thats very true, specially since i for one cant seem to stay out of the for sale section on here and the bay lol