Here is the birth of my next project

Another white Kilauea I hear you say .......................

Yes .................



I picked this up from the Sock warrior at Mayhem last year and had been hung in the bike home until last weekend. On Sunday I spent some time ( hours in fact ) Working away at a stuck seatpost that had been butchered with a holesaw.

I have thought on how I am going to base this project & all I am going to say is;

White = no chance
Different = of course
Rider = no question
Rigid = indeed
Single Speed = don't be silly
XTR = not a sausage
Mayhem = Bring it on

Looking forward to seeing this develop

lovely frame but it's a 1995 the last year with tange tubing
will follow your thread to see this beauty finished.

Thank you sir , 95 it is then

I still have the Tange Prestige decal , managed to remove it before heat was applied to seat tube.

nice frame - nothing wrong about a 95 Tanged Kilauea, why not keep the white livery, guess I saw somewhere a white one with bronzeish P2 and Velocity stem, plus silver stuff and skinwall tyres and it looks ace

guess yours is a 18". is there a lot of rust inside the tubes, would assume anyway, looking forward the build

It's size is 18" & a beautiful frame indeed. This one is a little rough to put it mildly and will never be a stunning example, I feel the the white Kona has been overdone and personally I will always add a twist with colours as all of my refinished bikes will show I do have the bronze P2's and velocity which will be staying in original form.

Cheers

GM

I hope it wasnt that thompson seatpost that was stuck!

Looking forward to this build.

no this was put in after , the stuck one was a silver one

sock warrior....

Oh no the paint's fallen off

All sounds good to me, looking forward to this......

Yep...me too.

I think you should go for Yellow with Grey or Blue decals......the opposite of mine!!!

A small bit of progress has started , I have pressed in the headset cups and have fitted an stxrc catridge lower and the original impact up top, should be better than before. I have also fitted a NOS UN72 BB along with a near NOS sugino mighty 900 chainset

As you can see and possibly start to wonder have I built this up without paint, well ...... As the frame will never warrant the cost and time of a respray this seemed like a great donor for the "Rat"................ I love the custom rat look VW vans and buses that I have seen going around so a rusty frame with some shiny drive train parts is my plan who needs the extra weight of paint !

As mentioned before the frame was butchered in the seatube and still has most of the post inside, I have removed a good 6 inches of it below the toptube and rear triangle which will enable a post to be securely fitted.

The frame looked like it did in the picture above this morning until I added some water on a small sponge and instantly started to bronze with the corrosion, I was expecting a week or two but you could watch it before your very eyes

Should be a laugh at mayhem if nothing else

Surely not?

As mentioned the frame is butchered inside and has most of a stuck seatpost inside ,all the shards are rattling inside will never be a good un

I will take a picture down the seattube tomorrow with warts n all !