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Not my frame I'm afraid to remove the cups (although my mate may be getting rid of it soon). On kitchen scales with the cups in the...

If it helps you a bit more to figure out what the frame is, I've been able to put my '98 Kilauea next to a '98 Caldera (the next frame...

I've read that the letters refer to a two week period within the year (52 weeks, 26 letters) so C would refer to being built in the 5th...

Glad the paint looks good (other than the annoying damage), does that mean you are more likely to keep the paint as-is? Model can't...

Looks like the paper that was used to "mask" the BB when it was painted is still in there, so there might just be some paint in the threads.

It would be a nice dream for the new owner, but the '98 Hot (which it would need to be for that cable routing) had ovalized tubing and...

The '98 catalogue pictures do not match the production bikes, they had all top tube cable routing (and the Kilauea had blue decals...

'98 Kilauea was Reynolds 631 tubing

Definitley not a '96 or '97, but the '98 Kilauea had that cable routing, so I'd guess that is what this frame is (although visually I...

My first Kona (a '94 rigid 'Race Light' Kilauea) we bought back in late '94 from (I think) JE James. Years later I realised it had the...

It's a 2002. The first Aluminium frame was in '99 (although that used a different tube set from the ones that followed it), and then I...

Now it is in a sorry state without paint (no cracks or dents though) so no pictures currently. There was a thread here about it with...

In the list all of these frames have very similar S/N (H9A00...), so would have been done in a single batch. I've heard mention that...

Yeah, that is the reinforcement. It is a lot less obvious against the metallic paint (such a lovely colour!) than the others I have...

That's gorgeous, definitely keep the same colour if you have to respray it. That's one of the '99 Taiwan made frames with the chain-stay...