Bike porn

Veeeerrry nice. I like the white cranks with the red accents.

I think it's anti, but Scott may disagree! ;)

That is a a bit too busy for me, I don't know what part to look at.

Kinda looks like the other bikes in the parking area have been scared off

that ION is the shit, color sheme is ace, nice bike, is that yours ? once your infected with niclai there will be no cure

that's ace.

To be fair, the main reason they won races were because they had the best riders on board.
The riders that won on Orange bikes also won on most of the other bikes they ever rode too.
Steve Peat is one of the most naturally gifted riders ever...he won the national champs on a fully rigid Kona explosive with a 1.5" hardpack on the front when fellow competitors were on full suss frames with rock shox forks.
A good rider is a good rider.

If you're talking about 1993 I think it was a Kilauea

No...it was an explosif...the Kiluea wasn't even invented when he won...and people had stopped using hardpack 1.5" by then. :)

I think it's anti, but Scott may disagree! ;)

I wouldn't say anti...but i don't like them.

No...it was an explosif...the Kiluea wasn't even invented when he won...and people had stopped using hardpack 1.5" by then. :)

It was almost definitely in the line-up at that point, here is a 1992 one. I think it got dropped as a model about 1999?

His kona was from the year when they were silver on one half and coloured on the other...whenever that was?

Maybe i should have said it wasn't invented when he bought his. :)

Or maybe i should shut up cos my old brain gets confused too easily these days. :)

That colour scheme was definitely 1993; for 1994 they kept the same colour P2s/Velocities and went for single colour frames (Hahanna was blue, Fire Mountain was red, Lavadone was green, Cindercone was Orange, Kilauea was white, and not being able to remember what colour the Explosif was is going to annoy me). In 1995 they went to gold forks, in 1996 it was a gun metal colour. They changed the look again in 1997 with the flowery detail.

I can't remember the model colours for 1993 otherwise I'd look for a photo and try and work it out.

Also, don't worry about your memory, it seems pretty encyclopaedic about the important stuff (high end mid-nineties MTBs)

and not being able to remember what colour the Explosif was is going to annoy me).

I can't remember the model colours for 1993 otherwise I'd look for a photo and try and work it out.

Explosif was purple that year i think.
It was silver and black in 93 then.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=12057

Metallic Green then, not purple. :)

I thought it was green, but the fact that I thought the Lavadome was green put me off. Time to try and see what colour Steve Peat's "whip" was then.

Talking about mid-nineties MTB stuff, I think that Archies Grobags should diversify and buy Cook Bros Racing (it was put up for sale a while ago, you could probably buy it quite cheap, depending on how much the tools are worth).

Porn!..the bike, not him.

Porn!..the bike, not him.

As is the Bike Porn tradition, I would like to use the smallest detail on an otherwise fabulous bike to claim that it is not only unworthy of being porn, but is in fact Anti-Porn of the highest degree.

The detail I choose to focus on is the grips. They appear to be Ritchey WCS foam grips (or at least strikingly similar) and they were kinda shit. I think that better and still period correct) grips would have been Onza Porcipaws or ODI mushrooms.

Also, it isn't lugged and is therefore utter toss.

I know someone who has one of the Campag disks :D

I always see a guy cycling around Hackney with one of those Campag discs on a low pro. Looks like a lovely but uncomfortable bike!

The detail I choose to focus on is the grips. They appear to be Ritchey WCS foam grips (or at least strikingly similar)

Nope they're Grab ons...which were great grips in my opinion. :)

I always see a guy cycling around Hackney with one of those Campag discs on a low pro. Looks like a lovely but uncomfortable bike!

That's not the person I know :P

Nope they're Grab ons...which were great grips in my opinion. :)

Um, in that case the Mojos (the CND symbol yoke hangers for those of you that aren't Scott) aren't appropriate to the year of the build. My recollection is that they were 1993 and the rest of the build appears to be 1992.

Also, surely it needs some NOS PDM-737s?

Who were the british company that made suspension forks with anodized crowns and dropouts? they weren't around for long.

Who were the british company that made suspension forks with anodized crowns and dropouts? they weren't around for long.

Silver sliders, Pace style drop outs, brake bridge (is that the term) looked a bit like the after market ones Brodie made for Rockshox? Because I can picture them, but can't remember the name.

Actually, I think that I might be thinking of the old air/oil Tange forks.