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wastedqba
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wastedqba edspratt's article
May 20, 2024 at 15:50
May 20, 2024
Must Watch: Savage Racing in the Sleeper Shreddit from the Bielsko-Biala DH World Cup 2024
Guano Apes and DH... Like in good old days of NWD. We want more and we want more world cups in Poland.
wastedqba edspratt's photo
May 20, 2024 at 9:49
May 20, 2024
Great...
Now please return to mid 2000s image. Cool colours, cool/weird names and catalogs... And to Kona Clump team. And bring back Process 111. Noone understands why it has dissapeard.
wastedqba edspratt's article
May 16, 2024 at 22:48
May 16, 2024
Kona Bicycles' Parent Company Appoints New CFO, Intends to Sell Brand
@dhjacqueline: Golden era!
wastedqba edspratt's article
May 16, 2024 at 22:45
May 16, 2024
Kona Bicycles' Parent Company Appoints New CFO, Intends to Sell Brand
This is interesting as I started to notice (as a customer) that something took a wrong turn around 2016. They stopped to act as a small cool brand that has it's own ideas and started to follow the trends. Gravel and Eunduro sells? Let's make 20 models for these disciplines and do not care about the rest.
wastedqba edspratt's article
May 16, 2024 at 22:31
May 16, 2024
Kona Bicycles' Parent Company Appoints New CFO, Intends to Sell Brand
@SchalkMarais: so true!
wastedqba nathanhughes's article
Oct 24, 2022 at 10:26
Oct 24, 2022
18 Bikes of Red Bull Rampage 2022 - Vote For Your Favorite
Commencal looks classic. Gets my vote.
Trek looks like it has 10ft wheel base. Like those modified motobikes that are used to climb super steep hills, but instead reaching the top, they just hit their riders in the head when tumbling down.
wastedqba jamessmurthwaite's article
Jan 20, 2022 at 10:53
Jan 20, 2022
Kona Bikes Sold to Kent Outdoors
Kona lost it in the last years... They did the super slack HA Honzo... But the rest was adult desig. No more Joe, no more Bike Hot Rod, no more weird suspension improvements. Clean and simple lineup with limited number of models which share the same "principals". 2 lines of full sus bikes (Hei Hei design was different to Hei Hei CR, so there are 2 sub species, but entire Process line looks the same from a distance). This is what big company would do. Unification of the products. I am affraid that new big owner will only continue this path and Kona will never return to its cool roots.
wastedqba henryquinney's article
Aug 23, 2021 at 19:43
Aug 23, 2021
Opinion: Are New Bike Component Standards Really That Bad?
So assuming the seafood is the only thing that is eatable... Are you going to starve to death or eat what you do not like?
Technically that is still a choice.
This is what has happend with the wheels standards. I like my DH and FR bikes with 26" wheels. I am not against bigger wheels (I do own single speed 29er), but I like my bikes. I do not need new bikes, I do not need bigger wheels. The only thing that will force me to buy a new bike (and waste recources, since I normalny wound not buy it) is that there are no DH/FR rims, and tyres are dissapearing quickly. The industry decided to flip the bird on everyone who do not want a new bike. Do I have a choice? Yes, I can drop cycling or I can adjust to modern standards. Do I like it? No.
wastedqba jamessmurthwaite's article
Sep 13, 2020 at 16:51
Sep 13, 2020
Bike vs Bike: Connor Fearon's 2007 Kona Stab Deluxe vs 2020 Operator
The issue with this frame though (all between 2006-2008 and some earlier ones) is that you need to use modified hubs. 150x12 which are shorter to fit floating caliper. It is hard go get Sun Ringle Abbah hubs nowadays. Better option is with 2009, when they moved to regular 150x12
wastedqba jamessmurthwaite's article
Sep 13, 2020 at 16:39
Sep 13, 2020
Bike vs Bike: Connor Fearon's 2007 Kona Stab Deluxe vs 2020 Operator
I am putting together vontage Kona Stab with exactly the same frame. And have the same issue. L is so hard to get that I need to use M. The major difference is that I have 07 888 RC2X which is closer to stock specs.
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