konahed":qscoiye9 said:
Did the 91 Lava Dome have double or triple butted P2s? Anthony?
Well if you look on here
http://www.konaretro.com/articles/catal ... Inner2.jpg (towards the bottom of the page), it says the new P2 for 1991 was taper-gauged. Presumably that means that the gauge got gradually thinner, rather than being butted as such?
They first used the confusing term triple-butted in 1992, here
http://www.konaretro.com/articles/catal ... 2Page8.jpg and this list is notable also for implying that there were three grades of P2 in 1992, the Sport (clearly plain-gauge), the so-called triple-butted and something in between that was used on the Lava Dome only – the same as the 1991 P2 perhaps?
The point about the ‘triple-butted’ P2 being that it uses 1.2-0.8-0.5 tubes, which surely means double-butted. OK there are three thicknesses, but that’s what you get in a double-butted tube. Anyway, it’s quite a good fork, and the name TB has stuck. So although people ask what’s the difference between the triple-butted P2 and the double-butted one, I’m not aware of Kona ever calling a P2 double-butted. Happy to be proved wrong, but I think that since 1992 they’ve only had plain-gauge (which they initially called the P2 Sport) and double-butted (which they call Triple-Butted).
And as far as the bike on eBay is concerned, January 93 seems quite a late sale of a 1992 Lava Dome (they’d been on sale since Autumn 1991), and maybe that’s why the upgraded fork on it looks like it’s a 1993 TB P2.
