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.

 

[Smotzer]

Update:

Well finally finished the rebuild of the 2004 19.5” Gary Fisher Advance Silver series !

Did everything on it rebuilt frame up except I left the paint and “patina” as it is ( when I have time this winter I take it all off and clear coat it to preserve its look as I enjoy it). Overall it was quite “some work” when it came to getting off the old crank and bottom bracket!! Crankset was rusted so tight I didn’t know what would break first, the bike, my tools, or me and my sanity! My sanity broke at times, the bike survived everything!



It’s now fully done with completely rebuilt drivetrain, fork, brakes, cables, shifters, new rear derailleur, etc. and now a good healthy dose of grease in all in places where it was as dry as the Texas soil! I didn’t intend to do a 1x crank set up, but the first real ride my wife took it on the non-drive crank pedal broke off and it was completely stripped off. Due to being cross threaded with no grease at all. So I had to take the crank off and figured I might as well then rebuild it completely for her!



My wife is very happy now!