So I came home with a Kona & Gary Fisher frame && My its first post!

[Smotzer]

The one pictured in the catalogue is a smaller frame size which is why there's a tube overlap, the bigger sizes dont have it.

hmmmm perhaps I measured using ‘yankee units’ or was misinformed on how Kona’s are rightly measured. But thought this was a smaller frame, but not the smallest size that it measured at 16” ? When I get back I’ll have to measure again but with metric soft tape.

 

[W7Ford]

Yours looks to be a larger size in your pic, the catalogue one is probably a 16" but they did a 14" as well. Here's a couple of pics of a cindercone in different sizes to set your mind at rest, they did this a lot to maintain the geometry:

small frame


Larger frame:

 

[Siish]

Here's the link to my pahoehoe (99 i irc)

Thread 'Kona pahoehoe'

Aug 27, 2022

I am now a proud owner of a kona pahoehoe, it was to much of a bargain to pass on, at a grand total of 99p on fleabay. I believe its a 98 model but more than happy to be educated on this.

Hmmm now what to do with it and where do i start

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[MattiThundrrr]

Felt like a kid again riding bikes all the time for 100s of miles finding a bike frame and or making a bike part work on yours; tinkering, maintaining, either for fun or necessity; there was freedom in it, and it gave it back!

You summed it all up right there. We can shut down the forum now.

 

[Smotzer]

You summed it all up right there. We can shut down the forum now.

Haha Call in the mods

All I can say is I hadn’t been in that place in a long time, and it was marvelous! It’s equally pretty neat to see it’s been globally felt!

 

[Smotzer]

Yours looks to be a larger size in your pic, the catalogue one is probably a 16" but they did a 14" as well. Here's a couple of pics of a cindercone in different sizes to set your mind at rest, they did this a lot to maintain the geometry:

Okay so I just remeasured, to the center of the BB, it appears that the seller clearly didnt know how to measuere at all, and measured a full 2 inches shorter, and it looks to be one of the 18" frames, and not the 16". And I also got a basic weight at right at 2.037kg (4.492lbs) for it. Not my most accurate one, ill have to find the other one later.

18"
Weight- 2kg

Head tube

 

[al-onestare]

100% that's a Nunu

 

[Smotzer]

100% that's a Nunu

Thanks! Yeah now that I actually measured it, and weighed it it makes a lot more sense, It was sold to me, well listed as he thought a, for dirt cheap $ as a 2011 16" NuNu, and i was a bit confused because i was like the weld doesnt make sense for a 16" frame. But the serial indicates 2002 NuNu! But im very happy all around! For $40 and, and now my first Kona! I haven't seen these in this part of the US or in the US i feel like in such a long time, but the terrain here is like what they were desiged for, the rocky karst topography in this region known as the "hill country" is going to be a ton of fun once this is built!!


Any suggestions you have for it, I am all ears!!

 

[W7Ford]

I guess you can either go with original spec, period correct parts but your own choice of component spec, or build it up with more modern parts. For me personally, I like to use parts/build bikes that I remember being in the bike shops when I was a teen, but probably couldnt afford at the time. The tinkering is as much of the enjoyment as riding them.