nah its the new sunday.. the decided to steepen the head angle alot to increase turning ability, and then bent down tube is for wheel clearnace, cant wait to get one!
konas crack at the head tube and seperate from the main triangles because they are POS. this bike looks like it went flying into a tree and the tree hit the down tube or the guy landed on his nose super steep resulting to a face plant and broken arm? that sucks man hope you get better
suckafreedmr: i pity your narrow minded sheep like views 'they are POS' pfft! maybe try riding a decent built stab and I think you'll change your mind.
konas are good bikes. perfect for someone trying to get into the sport. but as for being the ultimate DH race bike, theres better choices, but they aren't bad bikes.
Why do most people say that kona frames are crap because some of them have snapped? iv seen other dh frames snap just as many times as a konas and if you ride any frame hard enough it will snape
if u wrote it to me thatdownhillkid,i need to ask,have u ever heard of 'big numbers rule' meaning,that there are thousands,maybe millions of konas......THATS why u see a lot of them snaped,broke,cracked.Excuse me,but Kona bikes are perfect for someone to get in the sport?Tell that to fabien barel or tracey mosley,or robbie bourdon,or wade simmons,john cowan,and all the big names that rode Kona bikes,and broke the limits of the sport at that time.Also if u remember grant allen going flat in disorder 3 from like a 15m road gap....and the stab primo stayed in one piece.Ive rode like 40-50 kind of frames,and after a lot and even more of good frames i say that stab supreme frames,are one of the best designed,and best geometry for downhill.Peace guys.
yeah. i'm saying that konas are good bikes. not exactly up to par with intense and santa cruz, but they're not shit like most people think. but perfectly good bikes that will offer years of service.
OK folks to clear the air Kona makes a great bike its how you ride it
boxxers are a great fork but a 888 is better
and clearly this ironhorse is made of aluminum and upon impact it showed its true colours
ride safe ride smart and have fun
and stop hating for god sakes
bikers are of the earth we love
i think riboo88hun had it right! If this was a kona, everyone would be saying "konas are shit, they do this all the time" etc. But since its an Iron Horse something like this is ok? Jeez.
Iron Horse no tiene la culpa, ese es un cuadro muy fuerte,demas esta decir que el Boxxer es aun mejor(quedo intacto) fue un accidente de frente bici contra moto, Moraleja: sean cuidadosos de hacer Downhill en donde las motos practiquen Enduro!!!!
My guess... the hubs fell in love and wanted to be closer or the pilot thought he'd give Mother Earth a HUG... and by the way your frame is a bit dusty and your rear brake lever is too high. CLEAN YOUR BIKE hah aha
you might have been saying this ironically, but the brake lever is so high because he tightened it right, which means just a tiny bit loose, so that upon impact, the lever can move and not break.
i had the exact same bike.. and i hit a tree going down the mountain here doubt anyone has heard of it unless your a skiier or snowboarder but its called blue mountain but anyways i was going down the hill hit the jump cleared the gap and my A$$ end slide out from under me and i tried to turn and BOOOM Goodnight Tree Hello Doctor.. It Hurt I Feel Your Pain Mate, Get Well Soon.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit mann,my mates got one of them and he throws it about like a bmx,he races it in italy and america and its not f*cked up liked that :O thats proper shocking
Yet another ignorant American. When will you people realise that other cultures exist, and more importantly that other people from other cultures have a right to come on websites such as this and leave comments in their own language without having armchair downhillers such as yourself having a go at them?
Also, answer me this. Did you realise that the guy in the photo with the iron horse isnt actually from an English speaking country? Or were you just to distracted by your general ignorance to notice?
that cant be true iron horse os on eof the strongest dh frame you would have to drop a boulder to do that and to bend the frame like that and walk out of it with just a broken arm
iron horse arent the strongest frames cos there built to be light so there has been strength sacrificed. the strongest dh frame would probably be a karpeil
Well if it hasn't been said, He will be able to sell the rear half of the bike as Iron horse is out of business, and no doubt people will be looking for those parts.
ur gay..ur moms gay...ur bikes gay..ur fucked..wanna scrap fucker..oh ya..and learn how to ride a bike bitch..and get a real bike..not a fucking iron horse
hm....thats a lot of gay in there... are you trying to say something about yourself? and iron horse might not be that top of the line company but it make some amazing bikes, if i remember correctly sam hill won some huge races on ironhorse not to long ago....fagot...so please dont bitch about a bike you dont know anything about and get a life....
well if you had a posession which you spent thousands on, you would get pretty upset if everyone just talked absolute bollocks about how shit it was would you not? What if everywhere you went people told you what an ugly cow your girlfriend is, even though you love her with all your heart? same thing. I think you'd get pissed off if people kept telling you what a piece of shit your demo or your jackal is. Think about it mate.
no fag im talking about where it failed... that is the same spot that kona stabs seem to break. know its a iron horse ive worked at a know dealer for 4years
alright calm down, some people should really stop this shit with Kona's, or at least say it looks like a Kona stab. And i knew what you meant, u just did'nt have to say it
bro i use konas for what they are designed to do, and thats going big, yeah maybe im smooth sometimes but im still a huicker at heart when i get on a 7" travel bike. this guy in this pic mustve got it really wrong to do that to his bike.
shut up, every bike has a breaking point, some frames are weaker than anothers, but we all know that IH is a great bike. and by the way, this is the first IH frame that I see snapped, so tell me, what reason do you have to say that ? cheers
very true, I didn't think my comment out above any brand of bike can have this happen. I was just stating that kona has had a recent problem with the headtubes on some of their recent bikes. I dont have any experience with kona so I wont judge them anymore.
Im suprised that the front rim doesnt have much damage apart from the flat tire because if the force of the fall had that effect on the frame, i could imagine what it could have done to the rim. I might be wrong though, he could have landed on the triple clamps or some other part of the bike. Still, i might be wrong.
I dont think so.
In the UK, warranties are unaffected, as the warranty is through the importer not the manufacturere, and the importer has shed loads of spares for warranty issues. I dont know about the situation in the Americas, but I assume it will be similar.
sam hill left because Iron Horse went under, thus there was no company left to sign him to, otherwise i'm sure he would have continued to serve as a knight of the iron table lol
just because you have an opinion doesnt mean its rite,and if it's wack people will tell you that. i dont think hobbnobs was picking a fight,you called ironhorse shit and he called you shit,its his opinion.
it would be called finacial foresite, and i bet ironhorse even told him, "hey sam, if the economy and shit keeps going this way we can't afford to pay you too ride so start looking for a new sponsor so your not up shit creek when we finally go under" deeerrrr!
oh ya and who's the idiot, you can't even form a proper sentence, there's is the conjunction of there is, you sentence should be "there are" bloody wanker
Hahaha, so because you know your wrong you try and make an excuse. Then you figure out that your excuse aint gonna cut it, so you have a go at my gramma. Pathetic... especially after yuo started every sentance with a lower case letter, don't bother using full stops at the end... (maybe thats just so if you comeback is as shit as the previous ones you can claim you hadn't finished what you wer saying) and the last thing Sam and Iron Horse both have capitals at the start. get out and ride your bike rather than arguing with 15 year old kids, and lets hopeyour btter at that otherwise you might aswell give up!
no i was satisfied with my original "excuse" then i was bored and managed to return and felt like returning fire on a different part of your accusation, and i feel there is a big difference between not feeling like using the shift or period button and being able to form a comprehensive sentence, o well i guess splitting hairs musta been in a bad mood, as for the wanker thing i hop ponds often to hang with the limey relatives and some of the lingo rubs off, it's fun stuff
this is what happens when too many people complain that theit iron horse bike was too heavy, so in recent years they made their bikes light, but too weak.
all the stories ive heard of recent ironhorse bikes make me not want one.
can you stop with that? its getting rather anoying, and its quite obvious that you are the one beating the dead horse if people keep going on with the convo....