My unicorn - 1994 Kona Hei Hei - FULL SPEC/FINISHED PICS ON PAGE 8 & 9 - BOTY 2021, BOTM April 2021 & 2nd MucOff Show & Shine Malverns Classic 2021

[44Racing]

What a build! Enjoyed reading this, hats off for such an amazing effort.

Thank you, it's really appreciated

 

[44Racing]

My Kona Hei Hei is in the poll for the 2021 Bike Of The Year (BOTY)...if you like it please head over and give it a vote

BoTY - Bike of the year 2021 - time to vote

Collating all the pics from the last 12 months made me realise what a great year we've had. The quality just keeps on coming, year after year, and is a credit to our forum members. Keep up all the great restorations people. 12 to choose from, one vote per person, Jim and Kay have a couple of...

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[44Racing]

So I found out yesterday that my Hei Hei won the 2021 Bike of The Year (BoTY) competition against some absolutely incredible bikes.

BoTY - 44Racing's 1994 Kona Hei Hei is the 2021 Bike of the Year

@44Racing took the top spot in the poll to win the Bike of the Year competition for 2021. It was close between the top three, with @retrobikeguy's Jo Burt tribute Zinn just two votes behind the Kona and @daveyla's Pace RC200 F1, formerly Richard Thackray's race bike, coming in third. Click here...

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When I started building this bike I thought by going with subtle anodised black parts as opposed to the usual anodised 3DV, blue, red, turquoise, etc I was rolling the dice a little bit and I never for one minute ever thought that this bike would receive so much attention or gain the awards of Bike of The Month April 2021, 2nd place 2021 GT Malverns Classic Muc-Off Retro Show & Shine (missing the win by 1 vote to John Tomacs actual Raleigh race bike) and Bike of The Year 2021 so I would like to thank everyone for the likes, positive comments and the votes as it makes the hundreds of hours invested in this bike all worth it.

I know there has been speculation that I have thrown thousands and thousands and thousands of £££ at this bike basically buying awards/titles, but that simply is not true...yes this bike has not been a cheap build, but it certainly hasn't been an expensive one either (I am no millionaire) and I partly fund my retro builds from buying, restoring and selling retro parts/frames. This build has resulted from almost 3 years of hundreds of hours of searching/sourcing parts from all over the world, trading parts with other collectors and approximately 100 hours in total build time due to my OCD with my builds.

I am not sure I am going to be able top this build, but we shall see

Thanks once again

 

[Magpiegifts]

Congratulations. Deserved in my opinion. I voted for it

 

[44Racing]

Congratulations. Deserved in my opinion. I voted for it

Thank you mate, it's much appreciated

 

[27motorhead]

A M A Z I N G thread and build . Congratulations on the double (BOTM & BOTY). This is exactly like a dream build from the mid 90s you'd drool over in MBA, MTB Pro etc. Thanks for doing such a great job at recording the process and love the fact the first photo in the thread was a Zaskar!

 

[OldSkoolReTool'd]

Congrats on the BOTY win ! Very inspiring build you did there. Well deserved.

 

[romanrinos]

Iconic build - simply that. Well done mate. Terrific news!

 

[44Racing]

A M A Z I N G thread and build . Congratulations on the double (BOTM & BOTY). This is exactly like a dream build from the mid 90s you'd drool over in MBA, MTB Pro etc. Thanks for doing such a great job at recording the process and love the fact the first photo in the thread was a Zaskar!

Thank you so much, it’s really appreciate.

You've got to love a Zaskar hey...unfortunately the 94 Aqua Zaskar pictured had to be moved on for this build, but I do have a super rare 93 GT Tech Shop Zaskar in anodised black that is awaiting restoration and a full build

 

[44Racing]

Congrats on the BOTY win ! Very inspiring build you did there. Well deserved.

Thank you, it’s really appreciated