Kona Paint color help

[wish id kept my TA]

I won this Lava Dome on ebay last week

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0282942022

I now have the correct forks, but I'm thinking of stripping the paint & getting it repainted as there is quite a bit of rust & a dent, but I have no idea where to get hold of the paint & decals, does anyone on here do or know where to get the paint & decals.

Any help will be much appreciated

 

[Anthony]

It's a 96 frame in the option green. The other colour was burnt orange (as below) and that is a very popular colour (an orange 96 with good parts made over £400 on eBay earlier this year!). So you could consider a similar colour to that as one of your options. I don't think Kona would be able to tell you the RAL number of the paint they used, if you want to replicate that, but I guess you could try them on [email protected]

Gil_M, a member on this site makes excellent decals. If he doesn't have 96 Lava Dome decals already on file, I expect he'll want you to send him high quality images of the decals you have on the bike, so don't strip it just yet!

 

[wish id kept my TA]

Thanks for your help Anthony, but the one I had BITD was Green so I would like to keep it Green + I'm not really building it to sell, I want to keep it I notice on yours you are running a V Brake, how do you run the rear cable into the seat post guide ?

That looks very nice

 

[Anthony]

Thanks for your help Anthony, but the one I had BITD was Green so I would like to keep it Green + I'm not really building it to sell, I want to keep it I notice on yours you are running a V Brake, how do you run the rear cable into the seat post guide ?
That looks very nice

I can't remember now whether that orange bike belongs to CCE, but anyway CCE has one and he is also the site expert on making V-brakes work on Konas. You could either do a search to find the threads he has commented on, or PM him.

I think you have four options:

1. use the canti guide that you already have - but it isn't perfect and if you do a lot of rear braking, it'll eventually wear out.
2. buy a clamp-on cable stop, which works perfectly but looks a bit clunky
3. if you're having the frame repainted, you could have a stop brazed on while you're about it - costs about £15 IIRC and you could get back a tenner of that from selling the guide, believe it or not
4. CCE's effective fiddle, whatever it is

 

[Drapoon]

Hi, nice bike


cce's fiddle is in fact my fiddle patent in process-lol, I supplied cce with a small top hat washer which sits in the original guide allowing you to run a small length of outer cable & hence enabling conventional way of running v's. If you want a washer pm me address & I'll send you one ;-)


Martin