2015 Kona Line up - New humuhumunukunukuapua!

[coomber]

But it's a 29er... still cool though if you ask me

http://www.bikerumor.com/2014/07/15/kon ... ighlights/

Nice Kapu reynolds 853 road bike though!

 

[fjpshaw]

It's a fun one to type.

2015 looks a bit ordinary in my humble opinion (from those pics anyway). Best looking 'humuhumu' I've seen, I think was Raidan73's old one. Absolute stunner.

 

[REKIBorter]

They are recycling an name the already have registered.

 

[NeilM]

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That Kapu looks pretty nice.

 

[David B]

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That Kapu looks pretty nice.

Certainly does, the spindly straight-blade fork (bit like the one on my 1998 Raleigh 853!!) gives the bike a nice retro look in this day and age. Pedantry points deducted from the original article's authors, though, for describing 853 tubing as "chromoly".

I Googled "Kona Kapu road bike" and down the years it seems they've rarely served up a dud with this model - nice framesets*.

David

*The 2008 model in particular, with a pleasing Molteni/Holdsworth-ish shade of orange paint and fastback seat stays.

 

[NeilM]

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Pedantry points deducted from the original article's authors, though, for describing 853 tubing as "chromoly".

They don't exactly do their research on bikerumor; they described AVRO as a Canadian aircraft manufacturer. :facepalm:

Excellent web site for up to the minute info and new stuff though.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

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Pedantry points deducted from the original article's authors, though, for describing 853 tubing as "chromoly".

They don't exactly do their research on bikerumor; they described AVRO as a Canadian aircraft manufacturer. :facepalm:

Excellent web site for up to the minute info and new stuff though.

I'll bite... Why isn't it chromoly? Reynolds list; "The chemistry includes carbon, manganese, chrome, molybdenum, silicon, copper." Doesn't that make it a steel alloy, normally described as Chromoly because of the inclusion of chrome and molybdenum?

(honest question!). :?:

 

[xerxes]

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I think it's all to do with the relative proportions of different alloying elements, Reynolds do make some tubing that they refer to as chromoly/CrMo tubing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Cycle_Technology, the rest they refer to as Manganese-Molybdenum/MnMo.

 

[David B]

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Pedantry points deducted from the original article's authors, though, for describing 853 tubing as "chromoly".

They don't exactly do their research on bikerumor; they described AVRO as a Canadian aircraft manufacturer. :facepalm:

Excellent web site for up to the minute info and new stuff though.

I'll bite... Why isn't it chromoly? Reynolds list; "The chemistry includes carbon, manganese, chrome, molybdenum, silicon, copper." Doesn't that make it a steel alloy, normally described as Chromoly because of the inclusion of chrome and molybdenum?

(honest question!). :?:

Steels like Reynolds 725 that are designated as chromoly, apart from the inevitable carbon plus some manganese, tend not to have such an exotic mix though. Copper content implies a more sophisticated "precipitation hardening" (http://www.aalco.co.uk/datasheets/Stain ... r_100.ashx) type of alloy where the added elements improve the strength following heat-treatment; the new Reynolds 931 stainless tubeset is certainly precipitation hardened.

David