Josh#78
Kona Fan
Hi there,
After a long time of meditation, and as new projects are now coming, I took the decission of selling one of my precious jewels from my collection.
As you´ll see later on the pics, this is not just "another rebuilding"... It took me many efforts, time and money to finalize it, and well, I can say I´m proud of it. I´ll miss her a lot, but as said new challenges are coming! I hope one of you retro collectors will love and appreciate her, and take her to a good home/museum.
Talking about the bike, I can guarantee that its overall condition is just MINT. Many of the parts were NOS when I made this restoration two years ago (March 2014), and frame, bars, stem and seatpost were barely used. Just very slight marks of use (mostly cable rubbing) on the frame, that´s all.
After getting info about the frame when restoring the bike, I believe its a 1992 series (with non "bullet" style drop outs), so I focused my rebuilding on that year. My particular style for restoring bikes makes them quite restrained and elegant ( I usually don´t like flashy bikes),but in this case breaking this look with some ding ding litlle details matching with the coloured DEAN logos.
NOS parts were tyres, brake pads, saddle, chain and cranks.
I just took her for a very easy going couple of rides (no more than 20 kilometers) and photoshootings these last two years, staying on my leaving room as a piece of art the rest of the time.
BIKE CHECK IS:
- Frame: Dean Titanium, size 17"
- Stem: Dean Titanium
- Bars: Dean Titanium
- Seatpost: Dean Titanium
- Saddle: Selle Italia Flite Titanium
- Headset: Suntour XC Pro
- Forks: Manitou1, rebuilt with springs, working smooth and with an extra 1" steerer tube as spare.
- Gear Shifters: Shimano XT Thumbies
- Brake Levers: Real
- Rear derailleur: Shimano XTR m900
- Front mech: Shimano XTR m900
- Cranks: Tioga Revolver 22-32-42
- Cassette: Shimano XTR m900 8sp 12-28
- Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Cantilevers: Shimano XTR m900
- Brake pads: Scott Mathauser
- Front wheel: Mavic 217 Ceramic rim laced to Shimano XTR m900 hub
- Rear wheel: Mavic 217 rim laced to to Shimano XTR m900 hub
- Tyres: Tioga Psycho-K skinwall folding
- Shimano pedals shown on the pictures are NOT included!
Before talking about price, I must say the following: I won´t split the bike, and I won´t hear ridiculous offers. I think it´s clear we´re talking about a very special bike rebuilt with top class parts, and in an immaculate overall condition.
So, its price is 2.000€ (euro), excluding shipment to UK/EU.
And as we all know 1 picture says more than 1000 words, here you have some images of this gorgeous bike:
After a long time of meditation, and as new projects are now coming, I took the decission of selling one of my precious jewels from my collection.
As you´ll see later on the pics, this is not just "another rebuilding"... It took me many efforts, time and money to finalize it, and well, I can say I´m proud of it. I´ll miss her a lot, but as said new challenges are coming! I hope one of you retro collectors will love and appreciate her, and take her to a good home/museum.
Talking about the bike, I can guarantee that its overall condition is just MINT. Many of the parts were NOS when I made this restoration two years ago (March 2014), and frame, bars, stem and seatpost were barely used. Just very slight marks of use (mostly cable rubbing) on the frame, that´s all.
After getting info about the frame when restoring the bike, I believe its a 1992 series (with non "bullet" style drop outs), so I focused my rebuilding on that year. My particular style for restoring bikes makes them quite restrained and elegant ( I usually don´t like flashy bikes),but in this case breaking this look with some ding ding litlle details matching with the coloured DEAN logos.
NOS parts were tyres, brake pads, saddle, chain and cranks.
I just took her for a very easy going couple of rides (no more than 20 kilometers) and photoshootings these last two years, staying on my leaving room as a piece of art the rest of the time.
BIKE CHECK IS:
- Frame: Dean Titanium, size 17"
- Stem: Dean Titanium
- Bars: Dean Titanium
- Seatpost: Dean Titanium
- Saddle: Selle Italia Flite Titanium
- Headset: Suntour XC Pro
- Forks: Manitou1, rebuilt with springs, working smooth and with an extra 1" steerer tube as spare.
- Gear Shifters: Shimano XT Thumbies
- Brake Levers: Real
- Rear derailleur: Shimano XTR m900
- Front mech: Shimano XTR m900
- Cranks: Tioga Revolver 22-32-42
- Cassette: Shimano XTR m900 8sp 12-28
- Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Cantilevers: Shimano XTR m900
- Brake pads: Scott Mathauser
- Front wheel: Mavic 217 Ceramic rim laced to Shimano XTR m900 hub
- Rear wheel: Mavic 217 rim laced to to Shimano XTR m900 hub
- Tyres: Tioga Psycho-K skinwall folding
- Shimano pedals shown on the pictures are NOT included!
Before talking about price, I must say the following: I won´t split the bike, and I won´t hear ridiculous offers. I think it´s clear we´re talking about a very special bike rebuilt with top class parts, and in an immaculate overall condition.
So, its price is 2.000€ (euro), excluding shipment to UK/EU.
And as we all know 1 picture says more than 1000 words, here you have some images of this gorgeous bike:
GLWS
