Stars Stripes Kilauea

[murphy79]

'98 Kilauea was Reynolds 631 tubing

 

[murphy79]

Taking from the 98 Kona catalogue
If i was the new owner i'd stick a magnet on the frame, going please don't stick, please don't stick

The '98 catalogue pictures do not match the production bikes, they had all top tube cable routing (and the Kilauea had blue decals instead of red). Some of the Ti frames built in '97 had already moved to the top tube cabling, so I guess that is why the KK in the catalogue was correct. The painted frame is certainly steel, and most likely I think to be the Kilauea.

 

[Spanky22b]

Or it could be anything from 1999

 

[fattiman]

Clearly not a titanium frame!

 

[d8mok]

Personally I think it’s a later (98/99) Kilauea that the owner had painted in the scheme but had the years matching decals too. But obviously didn’t get the correct tubing ones.

 

[Spanky22b]

Clearly not a titanium frame!

Paint hides alot of things you know

 

[fattiman]

Paint hides alot of things you know

It cant hide the wrong drop outs though!

 

[Tsundere]

The '98 catalogue pictures do not match the production bikes, they had all top tube cable routing (and the Kilauea had blue decals instead of red). Some of the Ti frames built in '97 had already moved to the top tube cabling, so I guess that is why the KK in the catalogue was correct. The painted frame is certainly steel, and most likely I think to be the Kilauea.

Personally I think it’s a later (98/99) Kilauea that the owner had painted in the scheme but had the years matching decals too. But obviously didn’t get the correct tubing ones.

98 Kilauea seems the favourite then.

 

[Spanky22b]

It cant hide the wrong drop outs though!

Spoil sport Let the new owner dream for a while, for all they know they could've bought a posh Hahanna

 

[Tsundere]

Spoil sport Let the new owner dream for a while, for all they know they could've bought a posh Hahanna

Hahanna has different dropouts though, right?