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Kona Bicycles

On this page: 16" Kona Lava Dome Mountain Bike

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Kona Bicycles was founded in 1988 as a mountain bike company and was the first mountain bike maker to produce a complete line of mountain bikes with sloping top tubes.

From its initial success, Kona (headquartered in Washington State, despite its Hawaiian-sounding name) has gone on from strength to strength. The company now has a full line of mountain, road (including specialty commuter bikes) and cyclo-cross bikes.

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16" Kona Lava Dome Mountain Bike. Used, $500.00

• Made in Taiwan
• Kona CrMo Butted tubing
• Marzocchi Bomber EXA Comp fork
• Shimano Deore 3x9 Rapidfire Plus shifters
• Avid Single Digit 3 levers and V-brake calipers
• New Koolstop Eagleclaw salmon brake pads
• Shimano Deore derailleurs, front is top-pull
• Shimano 9-speed 11-32 cassette
• Shimano FC-M440 170mm 22/32/44 crankset
• Front alloy QR 32-hole hub with Mavic X139 rim
• Shimano RM40-8 Rear 32-hole hub with Sun Rhyno Lite rim
• Trek Big Kahuna 26x2.10 front tire
• Specialized Fast Trak 26x2.0 rear tire

Here's the bike.

Front view

Another look at the bike's front

Close-up of the brake and gear levers.

The front V-Brake caliper

Close-up of the right side of the Marzocchi fork.

Here's the seat tube with Kona's butted cro-moly tubing sticker.

Close-up of the inside of the crankset and showing the top-pull Shimano Deore front derailleur.

Here's the rear derailleur, 9-speed 11-32 cassette and the Sun Rhyno Lite rear rim.

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For fun, here's a poster from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics:

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