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So....picked this up off here with a view to making a 'rat' hack bike, and hey, it's a Kona, I was never going to be long without another one!! :mrgreen:
Advertised as a 17", it's actually a 16" which suits me better, and came with a Race Light post, and other bits and bobs...and a lot of scabby rust, in fact it's got more scabs than a kid with Impetigo....and a bad crease on the seat tube from an overly zealous front mech tightening...so perfect hack bike material then!
Despite temperatures only just above freezing yesterday, I managed to rust proof the thing internally quite successfully in the winter sunshine, he's now sat on a lot of old sheets next to the radiator, and the Dinitrol seems to have formed a nice film of skin over the insides, and the back of the car.... :facepalm:
Certainly from the rust showing through externally, it's just as well I got something inside those tubes fairly quick. Plan is....well there isn't one yet! Desperately need some ahead P2's, as I couldn't be doing with the threaded version and a quill stem. Have just found out there's a chance for me to be spending a lot of time in Normandy over the next year or two, maybe even ending up living there, and it's beautifully flat riding country, so maybe the original plan of a 1 x 7, or even the single speed stuff off the Orange, isn't so daft, with a mix and match approach on the kit, though apart from the forks I think I have everything I need.
Love the colour too, away from the rusty bits....
Advertised as a 17", it's actually a 16" which suits me better, and came with a Race Light post, and other bits and bobs...and a lot of scabby rust, in fact it's got more scabs than a kid with Impetigo....and a bad crease on the seat tube from an overly zealous front mech tightening...so perfect hack bike material then!
Despite temperatures only just above freezing yesterday, I managed to rust proof the thing internally quite successfully in the winter sunshine, he's now sat on a lot of old sheets next to the radiator, and the Dinitrol seems to have formed a nice film of skin over the insides, and the back of the car.... :facepalm:
Certainly from the rust showing through externally, it's just as well I got something inside those tubes fairly quick. Plan is....well there isn't one yet! Desperately need some ahead P2's, as I couldn't be doing with the threaded version and a quill stem. Have just found out there's a chance for me to be spending a lot of time in Normandy over the next year or two, maybe even ending up living there, and it's beautifully flat riding country, so maybe the original plan of a 1 x 7, or even the single speed stuff off the Orange, isn't so daft, with a mix and match approach on the kit, though apart from the forks I think I have everything I need.
Love the colour too, away from the rusty bits....
