Hi
Thinking of buying a second hand kona stinky as a bike just for the alps no pedaling uphill
Any thoughts on these bikes
Tar
What year and what spec? How much?
I've got a 2007 and it's great fun. Really plush rear suspension action (Fox DHX3 Coil). I swapped out the stock Marz Drop Off Triples when the internal rebound adjustment drove me mad and run some 66ATAs on it now (and looking on this forum I seem to have the only pair in the world that work properly).
Slightly steeper angles than a DH bike, but then it's not a DH bike.
It weighs a ton mind, but that won't bother you for gravity assisted fun.
I bought it as a 'last year's model' a year or so ago for a grand, and I've easily had a grand's worth of fun out of it. Buy one and ride it into/over/through stuff and just hold on, don't worry about using skills, skills are so last year anyway.
Jumps reasonably well for a bike with loads of travel too. Slightly long back end makes manualling slightly harder, but it's fairly stable at speed.
i got an old '04 stinky off of here for 300notes, bags of fun,