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

Smotzer

Retro Newbie
Hey all! Long story short, my wife had been begging to get back into biking again for her birthday, well its coming up at the end of the month and I had been looking for bikes and really not feeling anything new at all. When we moved years ago and we had to leave our bikes, we gave them away to some young kids, and I had been on the market but most of what I had been seeing last few months really had not caught my eye. Until this week when I had some of the older school vibes come back to me, not quite as old of frames as i once had, but I digress. Anyway as luck happens yesterday for $5 I snagged this 2004 Gary Fisher 19", Silver Series- Advance with stem and bars, saddle, crank and mismatched pedals, some rear pads as well as it had some sram combo brake/shifters on it that appeared opperational & even the o.e.m. RST fork ;). at least for now it is.
IMG_4455.webp Then this evening, on my way home I took a little 30 min detour and picked up a really nice condition 2002 Kona NuNu Gold (6061), dont know if theres a more specific model for this version Nunu, which I hadnt ever seen this variation before in the states. I thought it might be a 1999 Pahoehoe (I hoped).

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Enjoy the view only six more miles left to drive home!


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Didnt even realize how much missed all this!! As soon as I got back yesterday with the Gary Fisher I spent all day in the backyard getting lost cleaning and dreaming up ways to bring this forgotten dream back to life. It Brought back a feeling; 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!
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Wwelcome to the forum of fund, frolics and tomfoolery, also lots of people on here with vast amounts of helpful knowledge,


Keith
Thank you for the welcome!! Glad to be here!! Yeah it seems like there lots of great folks here and a nice active forum!! Always wonderful to see!
Welcome! You describe that tinkering feeling to a tee -- pretty much the reason I'm here too.
Thanks for the welcome! And glad it is understood!! I am not suproised I figured yall would understand it, if anyone would! It seems it is now a lost generational thing that 'tinkering feeling' of bikes, along side those bikes shops in neighborhoods and the like.
For us it was always "trolling" the rich neighborhoods next towns over on the night/early morning before gargabge day because back then so many times wed find bikes. and or new parts, new wheels, etc, you name it, we couldnt have afforded otherwise!
 
Welcome! This is the Kona catalogue listing for that Nunu:

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Question for you @W7Ford and let me know if this is better served making a separate thread over. But this was part of the reason why I wasn’t sure about the frame being the NuNu; and maybe it being a restickered Pahoehoe the head tube butting for the weld is not the the NuNu shown above.
I love that Texas sky. Good bikes too.
Thanks! Yeah the Texas sky is magnificent on evenings like last night! It’s been crazy time around here glad it’s finally settling down! And I can’t wait to get these two bikes built up!
 
came to edit my post above being only a minute later, (and I know this software allows it, since I am a staff member/mod on a different platorm using the same one).
Meant to say that obviously maybe it could be an hold over old fake frame too if the weld butting seams too not only the Pahoehoe option, I will have to consider thats why it was sold dirt cheap too. But the seller didnt know much at all even about it or anything , and wasnt trying to mislead me or anything so.
 
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.
 

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