1990 Kona Lavadome

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Picked this up a few days ago

It was so cute I just had to have it,

1990 Kona Lavadome
Red non splatter colourway
Suntour X-1 groupset
Black araya rims

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such a nice day I started to give it a clean in the garden.

Plan is a mild spruce up, a good clean and touch up where needed, replace the rear tyre to an old amberwall to match the front, new brake pads, replace those quill road pedals and wider bars....

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Its a nice bike, always wanted the yellow splatter but the red is lovely 8)

New pads fitted, and put an old ground control ambewall on the back

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originally from Stif I believe

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Splatter Paint":21cxwfw0 said:

yup,

front wheel had serious spoke rust so until I can replace the spokes Ill have to use an alternative.

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Bit of Tcut polishing time....

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I've always found that the early Kona paint responds well to a good tcut and polish it just seems to come back to life again.
It's not a very good photo of it but the paint on my old one was like yours and ended up like that, looking forward to following this build.
 

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Nice to see a few others popping up, I wonder why they didnt go splatter on these?....... Maybe I should go homemade splatter :?:

Anyhoo, replacement front wheel for now is ths wolber AT18 on exage hub, it'll do the job until I can re-lace the original.

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