My apoligies sir. Nice looking frame.

Kona...it'll be 'shocking' for you...but it doesn't use 26" wheels.....but 20" [19" actual diameter], runs a Suntour freewheel [not a cassette], and the crankset is Deore, the gears are XT...Tyres are Haro free-style [slicks] and saddle is a leather Brooks Swift titanium...

Oh...and the pedals.....Time Magnesium....with Greg Lemond signature Carnac shoes...[I'm a quality junkie]...

i like your choices on parts. how do the brakes work? powerful as disk?

Yes...the advantage of a smaller wheel diameter is the mechanical advantage of the swept brake diameter vs the wheel diameter.....a 20% smaller wheel [with the same brakes] results in an equivalent retardation improvement....the reason why 'sporty' cars have larger wheel diameter rims and lower profile tyres is [apart from the tyre wall properties] to be able to fit larger braking diameters [discs] within the hub/rim...or perhaps go to 'inboard' brakes which are not restricted by rim diameter...

why isn't your cool bike assembled? I like it. I would buy it if you ever want to sell it.

It's an old photo I took just after painting the frame....before final reassembly [had been road tested unpainted prior to that...as you do]....I'll take a pic of it as it is now...and post that.....conservative estimate of its price [even home-grown] is just over 5000 AUD...and unique, ergo not for sale...

Very Well but it is a nice ride. BTW I found you a new spell check icon

Looks like a nice ride for sure Jafo...

Iplural:

I can finally see why you like those Gary Fisher's. I just got done working on a Trek Fuel 90 and it rides SO nice. it has been said that the fuel and sugar are pretty much the same.

Love that Trek!

It is a nice ride, though I haven't beat one up on a ride or anything...

There isn't anywhere in Florida to ride one really, Sand Dunes? Of course there is always the sides of Overpasses

Thats why I've the Hybrid, then again the Florida National Forest Reserve has some real good trails and such but they also have wild pig (Boars), 6 foot rattlers, moccasins, gators, bobcats, panther, bear and skunks to deal with, and the every feared Out of state hunter with the price tag twirling in the wind right below to front sight...

Had one guy blow this kid off his grandfathers lap a few years back up there, ever since I tend to stay away from it.

All the wild life and places to get out and ride are congested with so many different thing happening it is not really safe. We had three dirt bikes racing around this track in the right direction and two rail buggies some guys from out of state were racing in the wrong direction try and share the same place of existence at the same exact time, bikes lost 2 dead one quadriplegic, buggies forgiven for ignorace, tack forced to be closed to public access.

I get my new frame tommorrow!

I still want one though

Eventually I want to throw the bikes on the Saburban and cross the nation and ride where we stop

Be a while, but it is something I want to do in time, almost something I have to do

what you order?

Actually i am buying from a friend. Fully loaded with a Manitou SX-LT (80mm) fork and deore componets... here is the pic...





That is NOT the actual frame but it is this same one. I got thr red one. I am going to build it up with disc rims and brakes and complete Shimano Deore componets, 27 speed.

sweet...

IPlural... I guess I live just north of you.(Spring Hill) We have over 1100 miles of trails and I've been riding them since 1985. My favorite is in Inverness, beautiful forest (shade) with some very challenging hills (the second highest elevation in Florida) refreshing lakes to swim in and some really great caves to explore. Mountain bike clubs from around the state come here every week, but there are enough trails to go around. I do agree with you and don't go riding during hunting season. My Moma didn't raise no fool

But it's...it's... not a Kona

Not in this lifetime

Spring Hill is nice, though I never knew about the trails, unless your speaking of the Pinellas Trail?

I was under the impression that they shut down all tracts of land from public access unless it is a park because of dirt bikes and such.

I'll have to come up that way with my wife and daughter and check it out. Last time I was up there it was 1986 and not much there really. It is pretty though, isn't that where that hill is where you can park your car at the bottom of the hill and leave it out of gear and it will roll up hill?

It's optical, the looking like it is up hill, but it is still freaky

Pinellas has gone Blue Hair totally. We used to have mud holes for 4x4's dirt tracks, sand tracks, keg parties, bon fires and such. But they have pretty much shut it all down now and are building up all the wild areas and moving north up 19 and south down 275.

This is what I bought for riding down here because it's not heavy enough riding from what I've seen, but this goes all ways, trails, street, sand hills, excluding rock hopping.



What I ment about trails not being really all that good here is Full Suspension bikes like this one.

Fisher Sugar 292



Fisher Cake 3 DLX

IPlural,
That hill your thinking about is Spook Hill and its in Lake Wales off RT 60. It is cool.
The rails to trails program is in the process of connecting the Pinellas trail with the paved trails here & the Florida Greenways (to Orlando)and eventually they will connect with the Appalachian Trail so you will be able to go from Main to the Everglades nonstop. East of Brooksville is Croom it has a dedicated area for dirt bikes but also paved and single track trails (Florida Trail) along the Withlacochee River..very scenic, and the paved trails are great for children,away from hunters but..very hot in the summer (old Railways) the single track is shaded but requires effort.There also is a campground and picnic area. Years ago I 4x4ed around Boyscout Lake and behind Honeywell but as it built up I found it better in Hernando County. I still do a bit of off roading. Your bikes will work fine. If you have any questions before you and your family come up just ask

Will do

Yeah Boysouct lake, and the Stables behind there. I grew up around here pretty much excluding the times my mother would send me to my father (who pawned me off on my grand parents) to throw a wrench into his life.

Twin Lakes out where Toy Town dump (land fill) was at, well it's still there but they have a plant there now and it is so built up you couldn't imagine where everything was out there if you haven't been there before.

Little Bull Frog is another good place, and from what I hear up in Tarpon and Pasco it's pretty hopping, but even they are facing what we had happen here in Pinellas

It's different down here compared to Maine. Though just as much to do, but I won't hunt here, heck Maine is getting pretty bad too.

For the life of me I do not know why they allow people who are gun ignorant own guns and worse yet, they are even more ignorant of hunting and they let them take those guns into the woods with people in them.

Few years back in Maine a woman was hanging cloths on her line out behind her house and the power line ran behind there, she was wearing white gloves and this guy from out of state dinked her dead as a door nail then claimed ignorance. I m not sure what happened to him, but he should have got time for it, if you do not see what your shooting at you don't shoot...

Down here, the kid sitting on his grand fathers lap years back, the guy who shot him was using a 3.06, hell what did he think he was hunting for Moose?

3.06 would blow a Florida deer into fluffs of fur and the damn bullet carries to damn far... he should have got time also... he shot at a flash of brown hair into a RV Camping grounds...

IPlural,
I've been here 30 years now and I know what you mean...I've seen alot of changes,its a shame it hasn't been for the better. Florida is still getting close to 1000 people a day moving here...I wish someone would build a fence at the Georgia border. You can't tell the difference from Pinellas,Pasco and parts of Hernando any more. It is nice in Spring Hill when you see the Bear crossing signs and there is 150 miles of pristine shoreline. After 18+ years I left a corporate sales management position (traveling Noth America) and 15 years ago I started a fly fishing charter business..so now I'm able to spend most of my time on the water in the Chassawiska National Wildlife Refuse away from the madness. Speaking of Florida hunters, they never caught the guy in Lake City that was hunting the hunters. I believe he killed 3 or 4 as they sat in tree stands during deer season. Anyway... get in touch if I can help in any way.

ack, your living my life !!!! give it back

will do!

Iplural guess what Kona has: