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khue mikekazimer's article

Jun 3, 2026 at 11:02

Jun 3, 2026

Kona Bicycles Appoints Charles Russell as President and CEO

Can Kona just move to threaded bottom brackets for all their bikes? I doubt the cost savings of not gluing a BSA or T47 insert in the shell is worth the loss of potential customers who are looking for easier serviceability.

khue mikekazimer's article

Apr 30, 2026 at 11:46

Apr 30, 2026

Matt's Mega Mullet, The New Epic, and World Cup Kickoff

@Gwizard: You're comparing a sport where equipment differences can lead to massive advantages with sports where the equipment is largely the same and equal, no matter the size of the participant Swimming, water polo, football, or basketball don't provide advantageous equipment for the larger player. Imagine if fencing gave the guy with the longer wingspan the longer weapon.

khue konaworld's article

Apr 9, 2026 at 18:15

Apr 9, 2026

Kona Announces Mixed-Wheel Unity Bikepacking Hardtail

So Kona now has the Unit, Unit X, and now Unit(y). Genius

khue Dario-DiGiulio's article

May 20, 2025 at 7:18

May 20, 2025

Review: Propain Spindrift 5 CF

Not necessarily- there’s an irony inherent in bikes with straight top tubes where standover sometimes increases with smaller sizes. You’re standing “closer” to the head tube when the front center shortens, so standover is higher.

khue mattbeer's article

Nov 13, 2023 at 9:20

Nov 13, 2023

Review: We Are One Arrival 170 - An Enduro Race Bike That Can Climb

Does Superboost limit the size of the rear brake rotor? 180mm seems pretty small for the use case of this bike.

khue mikekazimer's article

Jan 21, 2022 at 11:56

Jan 21, 2022

Race Face Announces New Atlas Flat Pedals

So ranging between gold and bronze depending on the batch? :D

khue pinkbikeoriginals's article

Jan 6, 2022 at 13:29

Jan 6, 2022

Video: 32 Bikes Bottomed Out In Ultra Slo Motion (1000 FPS)

Seeing as how the tires compress and rebound much faster than the bikes’ shock or fork in these slo-mo videos, does it have any real world consequence out on the trail? It would seem that whatever suspension curve the frame engineers work into their designs don’t necessarily account for the tires’ reactions to these big hits, given that we can see that distinct pause partway through the bikes’ travel until the tires compress a second time after the initial hit.

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