GearlessinSeattle
Senior Retro Guru
It is always funny to me how things sometimes work out in the Retrobike world.
I posted this bike at a while back in Aug of 2009, http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... ht=#502568.
He never called but last night I was looking at craigslist when low and behold it showed up. I emailed immediately and 15min later he called me to say he still had it. I told him about seeing him riding it in downtown Seattle and leaving the note but he said he never saw it. I guess it work out in the end because I picked it up this morning.
He told me that it was a Kona Team member’s bike from 1992. It had been built with full XTR and came with a Kona Ti stem and seatpost (which he still has and I am trying to aquire). When he bought it the Team member, which he can’t recall his name, took all of the XTR, except the headset, with him and built it using a mix of parts. It is a 19” so maybe a little small for me but I love the paint and matching fork. I will strip it this week and build it back up as a singlespeed or a 2x1, not sure which.
Stay tuned, more to come.
I posted this bike at a while back in Aug of 2009, http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... ht=#502568.
He never called but last night I was looking at craigslist when low and behold it showed up. I emailed immediately and 15min later he called me to say he still had it. I told him about seeing him riding it in downtown Seattle and leaving the note but he said he never saw it. I guess it work out in the end because I picked it up this morning.
He told me that it was a Kona Team member’s bike from 1992. It had been built with full XTR and came with a Kona Ti stem and seatpost (which he still has and I am trying to aquire). When he bought it the Team member, which he can’t recall his name, took all of the XTR, except the headset, with him and built it using a mix of parts. It is a 19” so maybe a little small for me but I love the paint and matching fork. I will strip it this week and build it back up as a singlespeed or a 2x1, not sure which.
Stay tuned, more to come.