So I came home with a Kona & Gary Fisher frame && My its first post!

[Smotzer]

The one pictured in the catalogue is a smaller frame size which is why there's a tube overlap, the bigger sizes dont have it.

hmmmm perhaps I measured using ‘yankee units’ or was misinformed on how Kona’s are rightly measured. But thought this was a smaller frame, but not the smallest size that it measured at 16” ? When I get back I’ll have to measure again but with metric soft tape.

 

[W7Ford]

Yours looks to be a larger size in your pic, the catalogue one is probably a 16" but they did a 14" as well. Here's a couple of pics of a cindercone in different sizes to set your mind at rest, they did this a lot to maintain the geometry:

small frame


Larger frame:

 

[Siish]

Here's the link to my pahoehoe (99 i irc)

Thread 'Kona pahoehoe'

Aug 27, 2022

I am now a proud owner of a kona pahoehoe, it was to much of a bargain to pass on, at a grand total of 99p on fleabay. I believe its a 98 model but more than happy to be educated on this.

Hmmm now what to do with it and where do i start

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[MattiThundrrr]

Felt like a kid again riding bikes all the time for 100s of miles finding a bike frame and or making a bike part work on yours; tinkering, maintaining, either for fun or necessity; there was freedom in it, and it gave it back!

You summed it all up right there. We can shut down the forum now.

 

[Smotzer]

You summed it all up right there. We can shut down the forum now.

Haha Call in the mods

All I can say is I hadn’t been in that place in a long time, and it was marvelous! It’s equally pretty neat to see it’s been globally felt!