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I know this thread is seriously lacking in updates but my good camera is on loan at the moment and iphone photos don't really do the bikes justice...but I took this one of the Kona today and pretty happy so I'll show you all where it's at.
I bought a drum brake front wheel and some front and rear hubs off retrobike the other day planning to go drums on this as it'd be a bit more 'klunker' but then I went out to the garage to tinker and ended up shifting all the disc stuff off the 1x1 onto it. The Humu handles 'aggressive' riding better than the 1x1 so seems to make sense to have decent brakes on it.
I was quite surprised the 2.4 tyre fit through the frame but it does. I had to dent the chainstays to clear the rotor and the larger freewheel (21t on the disc wheel, was previously 16t) but the tyre has room to spare.
Took this over the Devils Staircase today and loved the way it handled the terrain. The disc fork has a shorter a2c than the canti one so was getting a bit of pedal strike but I've been thinking about fitting a suspension fork anyway which would lift it back up a bit.
The 1x1 is gonna get rebuilt with the cantis and the Nitto 1x1 bar I have, more period correct if you will.