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Re: price drop.

Re: bump.

Re: FS: 1996 Kona Hot 19" frame bump.

Re: FS: 1996 Kona Hot 19" frame Sunday bump.

Re: bump.

Re: FS: 1996 Kona Hot 19" frame not sure... the previous owner had (poorly) resprayed it red.

SOLD

Just as a follow up... I uncovered more details about the frame in question verifying it is indeed a '96 Hot (as intuited by Anthony above). An e-mail from Tom Teesdale confirms he didn't built. However, I did find an image of another '96 Hot that appears to have the same mysterious rear...

You've sold me on it :D Thanks for all your help Anthony et al. This is my first introduction to the 'retrobike' community and I must say I'm very excited to learn more! Cheers, Kevin

Very impressive--thanks for all the insights. I wonder if its possible that the dropouts were part of a repair job as well? i.e., someone snapped a der. hanger and decided to replace the pair? One thing I thought odd was that the dropouts have rack mounting holes...but there are no mounting...

Here ya' go: And I also took some measurements using calipers (measured at approx center of each tube): top tube = 29.0mm down tube = 35.7mm seat tube = 29.5mm head tube = 37.6mm And if it isn't obvious from the pics already, I should also mention that it doesn't have the...

Thanks for all the great responses! I'd thought about contacting Teesdale, but I was under the impression that all the frames he built had serial numbers that started with "TET", whereas this frame's number is something close to H09606955 (difficult to read). I'll shoot him an email anyhow...

Here are a few pics:

Hi All, I'm looking for some help identifying this frame. The seller claimed it was a 1997 Kona Hot, but I'm skeptical. Its definitely been re-sprayed, and the decals re-applied somewhat haphazardly. Also, this frame has the f + r der cables routed along the downtube, whereas the catalog shows...