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1996 Qwest

Had a Honky Tonk repainted a few yeas ago and promoted it from commuting duty. Managed to pick up another frame for daily duties. Clearance for the rear mudguard is lousy but got there. Good for a lunchtime hour of power and towing a Burley trailer. Hopefully

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looks apt.
the cockpit is super satisfying but the saddle is tilted, could you fix that please ?

Good spot, photo alerted me to it too so sorted. Maiden voyage tomorrow, let's see what I forgot to tighten

wow! i love this picture!! that car!! everything is so gritty!

On the basis that early-March is basically summer I put some fast wheels and tyres on this today. It’s been plodding along on wire-beaded 23s all winter but it’s absolutely flying now.

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Frame does look a bit too big for you but the Full black style works perfectly !

Daily, super comfy

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Daily, super rusty

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Real nice, do get some better brake levers though.

Thank you ☺️

Might start a thread...

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Oh you tease, go on then!

Work in progress. It was functioning so I took it apart to sort out the mismatched wheelset. Still need to cable up the brakes (first try with bb7s). Wheelset was free, about 5 years ago from @pit. Cranks off this very forum for a bargain.

For those of keen eye they will spot that there is in fact no non-driveside crank. It turns out that
A) truvativ giga pipe BB has a proprietary crank bolt size; and
B) self extracting crank bolts get stuck.

Quite the fun bike and one I plan to tinker with over the next little while. It was a lucky find and finally ended my quest for a Kona Unit having developed a serious desire for one of the earlier ones after reading seeing this “Bike der Woche” about 5 years ago: https://fotos.mtb-news.de/p/2426166

Future plans include matching tan wall tires. And actually getting that damn crank on.

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How are you tensioning the chain, magic gear?

It has horizontal drop outs.

Aha, hard to see on the pictures. Thanks.

Looks great fun btw, hope you get the crank sorted soon.

Great biek. Dibs when you sell etc. or at least the cranks if 170mm.
I actually have a purple unit btw. They're great bikes as well!

I bet they are. Cranks aren’t going anywhere. Plus would you really want an ISIS bb?

...was worth the punt.
Isis smisis, it's probably stiff enough (errrr) and you can get them cool SKF bbs for them.

This is the Kona btw. Got it off this parish from my fellow Dutchman Tijmen Witslingers and it's clad in his early prototype bags.

Did some tinkering on it in the meanwhile, should share on here.
I also managed to find some single speed dropouts for it if I ever wanna go single speed, but for now it is staying the adventure machine that it is, mainly having adventures on my wall.

Also don't you wanna go hydro with those cheap Shimano mt-200s available everywhere?
Would probably make your money back selling the avids.

picking up one of these second hand for a v tidy price

Think I may switch it to flat bar and upgrade the brakes to hydro. Add mudguards. Maybe a dynamo light set up and the biggest tires I can fit.

They ruined it by going alu.

Still a good bike but always preferred steel over alu especially as a pub bike/daily runner.