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I’d love to find another 1995 Cinder Cone, just to see if it was as good as I remember. Snapped a chainstay in the end, got a warranty frame replacement, but sold it once I’d built it up. Still have the Project 2 forks hung up in the workshop for some reason.
I'll try and get a picture of mine up tomorrow. It was my lockdown obsession!
That would be great @wrecker. By coincidence, found this the other day looking through some old mags. It was in with the paperwork that came with the bike.
I’d love to find another 1995 Cinder Cone, just to see if it was as good as I remember. Snapped a chainstay in the end, got a warranty frame replacement, but sold it once I’d built it up. Still have the Project 2 forks hung up in the workshop for some reason.
Yes. It is. Had mine since new and it’s gone through multiple builds during that time. Long ago retired as my main bike - but I still love it. Now rebuilt almost to OE spec.
I’ve owned two Kona bikes, a ‘96 Kilauea and a ‘95 Kilauea. I restored the ‘95 as the ‘96 version that I wanted is rare as rocking horse poop. I brought the frame for £50 and built it up buying parts from Retrobike and EBay.
I ended up with this...
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Mavic sunset rims, Onza HO brakes, Judy fork and a smattering of X Lite bits. Needs more anodised purple.
That's lovely Beaker 😛 I'd love another Kilauea but 14"ers are super-rare.
Beaker - that is a thing of beauty
Beauty? With the front QR in the wrong side so the writing is upside-down?
Come on, people. Standards! 🙂
(Nice to see a pair of Sunsets, though… I had some of those and lamented their eventual loss.)
Thanks for the comments... Ref the QR @bez - In my defence ever since I had my first front disc brake I always put the qr on the non disc side. The front QR’s on my rim braked road bikes are always on the right.
Oh wow - I hadn't even noticed the sunsets 😛
rubbish at posting pics but still have a '95 Kilaeua, modified to SS.
Having almost entirely migrated to bigger wheeled bikes, it's quite hard to adjust going back, but is worth persevering with - such a grin-inducing bike. Now front disc but still V brake rear which limits its use a bit. It's still a very quick bike on the right terrain.
I’ve got a 2001 Muni-Mula frame that needs a home. It broke at one of the welds on the NDS dropout - it was repaired but I never rebuilt it. I dare say it’s be ok for a pub bike. 19”, free to a good home. Based near Stourbridge and I have no desire to post it.
Looks like this one (but this is not mine):
'96 (or was it '97 - originally mustard yellow) Kilauea, repainted in 2013 in a rather fetching-to-my-eyes gloss black and seen here with the original P2s. It spends most of its time lately with a set of 100mm Pace forks from 2009 or thereabouts, and the chainset etc came from Spa Cycles when I had ideas about using it for touring or whatever. Mostly road/pub bike nowadays, but it does get the occasional opportunity to open its lungs over the Long Mynd or Wrekin. And very well it still does too, even with that tiller of a stem. I'll happily keep it until I die.
(Yes, yes, I know someone's going to say the grass needs cutting, but there are/were the stumps of some daffodils in that long patch in May, so it had been deliberately left long)
Mines around 92 I think,couldn’t resist buying it just for bumbling around.