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- Feb 7, 2009 at 11:56Feb 7, 2009
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Sopot, Bulgaria
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Ryder27
(Feb 7, 2009 at 15:22)
that's what you get for buying a kona, too bad though
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"ride a iron horse" shut up kona arnt that bad n iron horse snap just as bad if not worse no bike is perfect!!
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And walker the reason you see more snapped konas is that there are a lot more konas than iron horses 
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www.pinkbike.com/photo/3188596 case in point. This can happen to any bike, every matierial will yield when a high enough stress is applied to it!
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Actually although it will happen to all materials eventually, the frame geometry changes the way the load is distributed and to what parts of the bike. Their design is obviously flawed because the load is supposed to be passed onto the suspension and not the frame. Also the location of the welds or the weaving of the alloy will factor into any frame stress related failures...I think it's fair to say that Kona needs to re-engineer their frame shape, structure, and perhaps even re-think how their alloy is being used. All based on the number of broken Kona's vs. "other brands" that I and almost everyone else on Pinkbike has seen 
sorries no harm meant- 2 0
i was going to buy one of those bikes but after seeing how easy they break i decided the hell with it
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acticially, they don't break that easy ... well, the ones that were welded right. Besides, Buddy probably has the frame warenied. Kona is a good company, even though i am more of a norco/transition/turner fan.