Cindercone...16"

[Harryburgundy]

http://tinyurl.com/53r2kx

 

[Anthony]

I assume that the seller must be a female, with a name like pocket-size-angel. Is it a coincidence that the advert is quite good, that she actually knows what year and size the bike is, and that she has taken the trouble to write coherent sentences that tell you about the bike?

It's quite a nice bike too, albeit quite small. I wonder what that remarkably well-preserved Joe Murray bottle is worth?

 

[guybe]

I would sell the Joe Murray bottle alone away from the frame, I believe she will get a better deal that way and there will be some buyer's just after the bottle only and probably dont fancy to buy the whole package of frame and bottle.

Nice frame for smaller people though and dont see many of that size, I expect it will fetch a good price.

 

[guybe]

£150 with 4 days to go, it's looking good for this seller

 

[Huntso]

Glad she/he clarifed it was a KONA and not that list of other makes :roll:

Bloody annoying when you search for one brand and get a whole lot of others

Crappy looking bottle too

 

[guybe]

£261 :shock:

 

[Anthony]

£261 :shock:

Don't tell Gump! He'll have the buyer committed to a lunatic asylum (Moderators can do that sort of thing, you know).

Seriously though, £261 is what you get for a well-presented, nice-looking bike and a decent advert.

She has an interesting way of measuring the size of her size 16:

1. Seat tube (measured to where it meets other joining tubes) = 13"
2. Seat tube (measured to where it meets BB at where it actually ends at the seat clamp QR) = 16"
3. Seat tube (measured from centre of BB to where it actually ends at the seat clamp QR) = 17.5

This doesn't truly make sense, as the difference between 2 and 3 implies that the bb shell is 3" across, but it does fit in with my impression that the early Konas had slightly longer seat tubes than the stated size. This explains why so many early size 16 Konas are wrongly advertised as size 17. But it hadn't occurred to me before that they might have measured from top of seat tube to bb shell, not to centre of bb. Not sure if I believe that, but not impossible.