Kona Titanium Serial Number List - update 29/04/24

[sovereign]

Re: Kona Titanium Frame Serial Numbers:

Own a 19" Hei Hei sold in Germany 05/92, the serial is close too 500.

Cheers

Thank you for your help with my thread.

Are you saying that you currently own a Hei Hei that was sold new in Germany in May 1992?

If it was new in 1992, it is likely to be a 1992 model, but could even be earlier.

Are you able to post a picture of the frame / bike to this thread, and can you take a picture of the serial number?

If you struggle with adding pictures to a post on here, or if would prefer not to reveal the serial number to the www, you are welcome to my e-mail address.

Cheers, Pip.

Hi,

yes, sold new in May 1992 in Germany. Frame came with 2 "K" Decals on the downtube only, according to the original owner. I have the receipt including his name, so date of purchase is verified. Serial is B19484.

You can find some pics here: https://fotos.mtb-news.de/s/87400

Feel free to add any picture to this thread!

Cheers,
Oliver

 

[Pipmeister]

Re: Kona Titanium Frame Serial Numbers:

Ah ok so maybe a 94 with 93 decals but i wonder whats with the G

Yes I would say that is correct.

I am still working on what the "G" stands for, or someone may know on this site, so bear with me.

Here is a complete picture of a 1993 frame that shows the Canti Bridge, and the Noodle that sometimes is missing on these frames.


Pip

 

[Pipmeister]

Re: Kona Titanium Frame Serial Numbers:

Hi,

yes, sold new in May 1992 in Germany. Frame came with 2 "K" Decals on the downtube only, according to the original owner. I have the receipt including his name, so date of purchase is verified. Serial is B19484.

You can find some pics here: https://fotos.mtb-news.de/s/87400

Feel free to add any picture to this thread!

Cheers,
Oliver

Thank you for the link to the pictures. Well as you may have read further back in this thread, Woz has come up with a likely explanation as to why the serial numbers do not run in date sequence.

The "K" decal on your frame was owing to a legal obligation that Kona had at the time. I think it was the Dutch manufacturer Koga who objected to the similar name, so Kona frames were sold in Europe with just a K on the Downtube - or something like that.

Pip.

 

[Woz]

Re: Kona Titanium Frame Serial Numbers:

The 'G' is more than likely to denote a model (or type variation); perhaps not from a Kona branding point of view, but from a
production point of view with associated technical specs. etc.

Again, probably just a sequential digit as you mentioned some Hei Hei had an 'H' too - or?

I mean the Hei Hei had all sorts of iterations (....and the only one I like is with a proper braze on rear cable stop).

 

[MatBH5]

Re:

What about throwing a Haole into the mix...?
B59531 from memory.
‘59’ presumably being the frame size in cm.
I’d be surprised if they had sold 531 Haole’s?

 

[Pipmeister]

Re:

Ah yes the Titanium Road Bikes; I should know the answer to this, but were they only produced for the 1994 line up?

I agree that 531 bikes would seem to be too many, so it is looking like the sequential serial numbers were indeed being used elsewhere.

Pip.

 

[Bergy]

I’m doubt it will ever re-surface but I had a Ti Hei Hei stolen from my garage near Bristol in summer 2009, it was very individual in that the rear stay had cracked at the BB in the middle so I’d had it welded up at work

 

[al-onestare]

I’m doubt it will ever re-surface but I had a Ti Hei Hei stolen from my garage near Bristol in summer 2009, it was very individual in that the rear stay had cracked at the BB in the middle so I’d had it welded up at work

Sad times.

Side note, all posts from the one above are post-hack, so the dates of the earlier posts are wrong. We've lost approx. 30 pages of content.

 

[eshew]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ko...p4429486.m46890.l6249&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 KK17007 on eBay, down tube cracked

 

[eshew]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ko...p4429486.m46890.l6249&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 B18203 also on eBay. Also cracked