Ok stop talkin shit....07-08 Kona fully frames suck,but can u show me just ONE 05-06 broken supreme/deelux??? NO I DONT THINK SO! So back of from Kona sucks....some year,some modells yes,but not ALL Konas suck.And comeon with the neg props...this is only the truth,and all u Kona haters,eff off!
and i NEWER wrote if u look close that kona sucks, i know this new 07-08's suck..thats the point..i owned kona once, i liked it was rrel light,but i blame this new model, and how we all know 2009 will bee just like this, too bad....the older konas are like tanks PEACE!!
yeah course konas are shit! yeah like maybe a dozen have broken, OOOOOOOOO a dozen out of 100,000s.
not bad i dont think, i have a kona stab deluxe 2007 and yeah it might snap but if i had a intense or a commencal or a cove or a solid, they have just as much chance of snapping.
because a few have snapped you have all jumped on the band wagon and think they are "shit"
yas are all pathetic especially considering that all you canadians slag them off the most even tho they are tested at whistler.. mmmm yeah think about it.
I HAD A 2010 STAB SUPREME AND YES ITS A KONA {BEAST} BUT WTF ALL I SEE ON PINKBIKE AND EBAY ARE OLD AND NEW KONAS WHICH MEANS THERE ALL STILL OUT THERE {UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER OLD DH RIGS] AND BEING USED AND MOST OF THE TIME BY BEGINNERS BECAUSE THERE CHEAP ..... SWITCHED ON YET SO THEY GET SOLD ABUSED SOLD ABUSED AND SO ON, SO WHEN FINALLY IT BREAKS AFTER YEARS OF ABUSE AND NUMEROUS OWNERS ALL U STUPID KONA HATERS POINT THE FINGERS AND AND SAY THATS KONAS FOR YA BUT WHEN A DEMO BREAKS YOUR LIKE WTF HOW DID THAT HAPPEN DEMOS DONT BREAK..... CATCHING ON YET PEOPLE ARE BI EST TO THERE PARTICULAR BIKE THEY RIDE I RIDE A TREK SESSION 88 2011 AT THE MO BUT IM STILL SAYING STOP HATING KONAS AND STOP BEING A BIKE SNOB JUST CAUSE U HAVE THE BEST BIKE DOESNT MEAN THE OTHER ONES ARE SHIT RANT OVER
I have stab deluxe 2008 i ve fallen many times and the bike is still in a good shape,..( a bit scrached ) so hey guys pls stop beeing such kona hatters!!!!
I agree that other bikes like specilazed demo is better ( i am going to buy it soon =D) but still, kona is a good bike,.. and the most important thing is that you enyoy riding your bike, is it a kona or iron horse or any other bike, so guys ENYOY!!!! KEEP THAT FUKING WORD IN mind
i've got a kona stab supreme 2007 that has snaped and tbh I wont change bike, and it got snaped cause I love kona cause it's fast and smooth, while jumping I feel like I can land in everywhere I want to have the same "liberty" as a freeride bike so.. the only disavantege is that it's kinda heavy. if the setup it's not quite good
alright the only reason you see sooooo many konas cracked is cuz they are WAY WAY over rated they are eveywhere..so everone stop dissing kona cant be to bad if a million people got em
dhdan93 - because people seem to have something against kona's when really konas are no more prone to breaking than a lot of other bike manufacturers. walker13 - im not quite sure what your point is but yes, i have seen broken iron horses... think how many konas there are in the world compared to iron horses?? Plus Iron Horse went bankrupt because the management was corrupt so i don't think buying an Iron Horse would have been a good idea (since they auctioned off the parts and no longer stock anything)
and you can no longer repair them.... so yeah go for an iron horse walker... im sure ill laugh when my kona is replaced and you cant get shit for an iron horse!
hahahahahahaahaha bullshit enyoying when ride you must feel the adrenalin and going fast high and far not like some XC cross country i hate kona he said a bit scrached its got a dent in it bent frame kona suck iron horses balls hahahahahaahaaa
plus rokdownhill since you're so confident about knocking other people's bikes, why don't you upload photos of yours and then we'll see who's laughing? Or are you too embarrased???
people are goin to start talking shit about kina right about now eh? k, ive seen 2 broken kona full suspensions on all of pinkbike. only 2, ive seen ust as many broken commencal,and even a few broken intenses.
i love these kinda pics, just because they show how bad kona truly is, i know i am going to get negative props, but people say norco snaps like twigs but no its kona that snaps really really easlly.
diogoa: the video you probably saw was of a 2002 stinky, and the forks snapped not the frame (i havent seen any other kona breaking on a video)! Konas do not snap any more than any other bicycle end of. If this was a different bike everyone would be like "SHIT how did you manage that?" but this place seems to be full of Kona haters who are just like "oh well its a kona what do you expect?" which is bollocks. ive seen LOADS of different bikes break, and certainly not any more konas than anything else which is what people seem to think. i've seen broken iron horses, orange, specialized, trek, kona, marin, cove, and loads more! I dont know why people hate on kona.
i seen a broken 06 santa cruz v-10.... EVERY BIKE SNAPS OR BREAKS at one point... but kona haters are kona haters... there like flies round shit, they don't stop until they get exactly what they want!
not really, if your linkage snapped i think you'll find you would do more than just hit your balls, because the forces required to do something like that are huge, and you will be thrown off your bike either way.
those v10 linkages only broke as people overtighten them! and i would rather my linkage snapped than my front end tbh! just cos you ride a kona , dont try and put it abouve a v10
When did I ever do that? The point Haarlem and I are trying to make is that any bike can break, with very few exceptions! You might say they break because people overtighten their linkage, but a similar argument could be made about any bike breakage, not just the v10! It's not like v10's are the only bikes that people can overtighten (which i may add isn't actually why those bikes broke).
Yes I ride a Kona; so what? I am sticking up for them, not because i ride one (well, two now) but because I have experience with their bikes, and i wish to continue that experience. I am however, fed up with the experience i get on pinkbike with Kona haters who fail to understand that there are actually far more kona's than most other manufacturers' bikes, so it is an inevitability that there will be more broken. Another problem I have is that the majority of these people are not taking from their own experiences or opinions, but forging their opinions from reading others; and so the trend spreads.
rolto1822, they have more bike out there because they sell them cheap. and they sell them cheap because they make them cheap. and wen you make it cheap, its gonna be cheap. thats why they break. and iv seen more konas broken then any other bike. so before you get all gung ho on how theres more konas and there a good bike, think about the quality.
actually for the money they're very well built and im no kona lover. not all of us can afford top shelf bikes stop hating just cause you can. you don't have one so what the f*ck do you know about them other than the shit that you read on this website?
i actually do. one of my best friends that i ride with almost every day had a kona. it snapped. and he got another bike. im just simply stating that there cheep. if your gonna buy a bike, and you don't want it to break, then your gonna have yo spend more money. and i rode my friends bike. they suck. out of all i rode, the only thing it did somewhat good on was the jumps. but everything els it sucked one. the way ir rode through rocks was crap. it didn't suck up anything well at all. it did okay in turns, but not amazing. its not that amazing of a bike. look at how many people like them vs the amount of people that don't. there is way more that don't like them. by quite a big margin.
fuck off AlCapone, english aint the only laguage in the universe and your looking at a picture from a portugese guy so im guessing his buddys are allowed to speak to him in his own fkin language.
Kona admitted their mistakes when they made them most notably the 06 stinky linkage plates were over machined, Kona ran a free replacement scheme whereby those with 06 linkage could get the 07 for free. There is no problem with Kona frames. Just with Kona haters like you.