50 shades of red. 97 Kona Kula

Once the post arrives with the post may stick the longer lower stems on. As I said, waiting to see how it all sits together before I decide. Spacers also incoming.
 
Canuck":21nhqpza said:
Regarding aluminum hard tails, top of the production line only bettered by the US made KU.

Strange your's doesn't have a rear brake cable stop, first time I've seen that :?

Lookin' good HM, lookin' good 8)

I'm thinking its a mid season. its also got downtube cables. Which points to 1996 with a dog collar but its clearly in 1997 paint/decals/forks in the catalogue .

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and as for quality level.. check out the m950 XTR rear mech in the brochure ;)

My lavadome is identical senario in that year. its all 1996 bar the paint which is 1997.
 
Still don't understand why a model one off top had no replaceable mech hanger. But I love it.
 
They had them before. The purple AA (1994?) had one. Seems strange they then left before.coming back.
 
Mine looks like that if somebody had been throwing stones at it.

So xtr mech and xt v are a good match :)
 
dablk":20kln7r3 said:
I'm thinking its a mid season. its also got downtube cables. Which points to 1996 with a dog collar but its clearly in 1997 paint/decals/forks in the catalogue .

and as for quality level.. check out the m950 XTR rear mech in the brochure ;)

My lavadome is identical senario in that year. its all 1996 bar the paint which is 1997.

Yep, You could be right. I had one of these year's ago and it also had the gear's along the down tube but it had the rear
brake cable stop for v's as well

I remember several '98 Pahoehoe frames coming into the shop I was working in bitd and they were also missing the rear brake
cable stop's...in '98! :lol: We had a hell of a time selling them as v's were all the rage and there wasn't any problem
solver's back then (that I can remember)!
 

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