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THE KONA TIMELINE 2008 • Magic Link, a patented auxiliary shock dual suspension system designed by Brian Berthold is introduced on the 6+1inch travel CoilAir. • Paul Basagoitia’s SE bike is one of the hottest new Kona’s for 2008. This 4x4 dual suspension slopestyle competition bike has a surf/snow inspired paint job. Paul breaks his collarbone in June, but Andreu Lacondeguy goes on to win Crankworx on the Bass. That makes 3 out of 4 Crankworx wins for Kona. New Kamloops, BC-based Clump rider Graham “Aggy” Aggasiz wins Sick Trick at the Bearclaw Comp. • Ute is the first Kona longtail, a big load bike with an Acacia wood deck and PVC panniers. • Kona Switzerland opens in Geneva and also launches Kona Basic Needs, a humanitarian organization to bring more AfricaBikes to Africa, starting with the WWF water project in Nigeria. • Kona Bike One Million, a 17-inch CinderCone is produced and sold at Bow Cycles in Calgary, Alberta. • The Dew Files comes to KonaWorld TV, episodes on Kona tech and lifestyle featuring the one and only Dr. Dew. • Kona signs young gun UK downhiller, Joe Smith, to the Kona Factory Team. 2009 • Lisa TR is the first Kona triathlon bike and Minxy is the first women’s specific Freeride model. • Asphalt drop bar models the Honky Tonk, Dew Drop, Haole and Kapu are introduced. 10 • Paul Bass is a double winner at the Teva games, also Best Trick at Vienna Air King. Andreu Lacondeguy wins White Style and Sick-O trick at 26Trix. • Kona Factory Team riders Barry Wicks and Kris Sneddon place second at the 7 stage BC Bike Race. Ryan Trebon and his partner Georgia Gould win the mixed division. Trebon rides the entire race on a hardtail Kula 29er with 80mm forks. • Kona celebrates 10 years of the Clump, and 10 years sponsoring the most influential film series in mountain biking, Freeride Entertainment’s New World Disorder Series. 2010 • Major One brings single speeding to cyclo-cross, the Honky Inc. retro-road machine adds a modern touch with Avid road discs, the Band Wagon and Grand Wagon bring high-style for fixie riders. • The first electric-assist Kona bikes are finally a reality with the Electric Ute, Token & Ticket arriving in May. • Andreu Lacondeguy wins Sick Trick at Crankworx and gets a signature steel dirt jump frame, Lacondeguy Inc. • The Kona COG goes live on KonaWorld.com, bringing news and blogs from all around the Kona world every day. • New Kona Factory riders continue the national championship tradition with Helen Wyman winning the U.K cyclo-cross nationals, Gilles Bertrand winning the Belgian DH champs, and Joe Smith winning the Wales DH. Luana Olivera took the Brazilian DH, and also 3rd in the Pan-Am games. • 650 Africabikes are sent to South Africa & Tanzania from the 2 for 1 program, more than 2500 sent since 2006.
STEEL IS REAL We've never given up on the original mountain bike material. You'll find the simplicity, strength, comfort, resilience, and playfulness of steel sprinkled throughout our line of road, asphalt and mountain bikes. 7005 ALUMINUM Aluminum is currently the most widely used tubing material in the bicycle industry. Aluminum is often mixed with a number of other elements to create aluminum alloys featuring a host of different ride characteristics, while increasing mechanical properties. Much of our tubing is butted and/or formed, meaning that the wall thickness of the tubing can be increased or decreased, as well as shaped, allowing us to fine tune a particular frame’s ride characteristics depending on the application. Kona uses butted 7005 aluminum extensively throughout our entire range of mountain, asphalt and road bicycles. A tough, durable, affordable, light, and dependable alloy, 7005 delivers great performance that lasts for thousands of rides. It is, by far and away, the ultimate aluminum tubing on the market today. KONA RACE LIGHT 7005 Kona Race Light 7005 is a lighter, more performance oriented fabrication of our 7005 Aluminum tubing. Designed to Kona’s racing specifications, the biggest difference is custom butting. The tubing is thicker at weld areas and important parts of the frame, providing great strength and torsional integrity to the ride. We remove wall thickness in other parts of the frameset to lighten up the bike, providing the perfect balance between quickness and stiffness. The emphasis here is on performance rather than durability, for applications where speed is more important than longevity. KONA RACE LIGHT SCANDIUM Known to be one of the lightest and strongest alloys in the world, with superior ride characteristics, Kona Race Light Scandium is featured in many of our high-end bike models — from dual suspension mountain bikes through to some of our top ranking asphalt bikes. Scandium is a potent grain refiner that when added to aluminum alloys, elevates the strength and durability of the material by 50%. It accomplishes this by aligning the grains of the alloy, making the metal less susceptible to failure. Kona Race Light Scandium alloy is twice as strong as 6061 or 7005 aluminum, allowing our engineers to use much less material. Because of the material’s strength, it can be butted thin enough to give the aluminum a more compliant ride similar to steel but without weight. In more specific terms, we’re shaving weight from our aluminum frames by 10-to-15%, without sacrificing strength and durability. For 2011 you’ll find Kona Race Light Scandium sprinkled throughout our entire line of bikes. Most notably, our Abra Cadabra 100-160mm variable travel backcountry bike uses a Scandium frame, a testament to our commitment and faith in one of the world’s most rigorous materials. Kona Race Light Scandium Highlights: • Light as titanium • More durable than carbon • Half the weight of steel • Five times stronger than aluminum • Fast as light KONA RACE CARBON FIBER TECHNOLOGY New for 2011, Kona introduces two new carbon fiber bicycles, the Kula Watt, a lightning quick hardtail cross-country mountain bike, and the Major Jake, our top-of-the-line cyclocross race bike. Both Kona designed bicycle frames are built at one of the most advanced bicycle manufacturing facilities in the world, Hodaka. In addition to producing cold-forged bicycle and frame components including wheels for Shimano and Easton, Hodaka employs a carbon fiber fabrication process that leads the industry. Combine Kona’s race proven geometries with one of the lightest, strongest and ride savvy materials on the planet, in a facility known for its innovation, leadership, and attention to detail, and you have some of the most beautifully riding bicycles on the planet. • The Technology: Kona Race Carbon Fiber bicycles use Prepreg technology – specially formulated resin matrix systems reinforced with man-made fibers such as carbon, glass and aramid. When cured, the Prepregs used in Kona frames represent an incredibly solid TECHNOLOGY 2011 KONA BIKES structural material that is highly durable, temperature resistant, exceptionally stiff, and lightweight. These resin formulations and fiber impregnation technologies are designed in concert with Kona’s stringent product design requirements, allowing our bikes to achieve the ultimate balance between stiffness, lightweight, and ride quality. • The Material: To create an unprecedented level of toughness, stiffness and good anti-vibration properties, epoxy resins used in the Major Jake and the Kula Watt use a special Nanopowder technology. Nanopowder resin is designed to fill microscopic gaps (see them like “nano” holes between the carbon layers) between the carbon fibers themselves, making the frame more homogenous (the forces generated while riding the bike are running through a more compact structure), lighter, and more comfortable. The result of having limited internal gaps also drastically reduces potential breaking points, increasing the fatigue limit of Kona frames by more than 30% over standard carbon monocoque frames. • Molding Process: At the bottom bracket, head tube and seat area, Kona Race Carbon Fiber frames use special internal silicon shells which increase the compression of carbon fibers layered in the mould. The method prevents the internal formation of wrinkles, another potential breaking point that, when avoided, increases the fatigue resistance of the bike, while at the same time, resulting in a lighter frame. SLOPING TOP TUBE Kona recognized the advantages of sloping top tube frame design right from the original models we made in 1988, designed by inaugural MTB Hall of Fame legend Joe Murray. As a company, we’ve stayed true to this philosophy, going so far as to pioneer the design in road bikes before the benefits were understood. Today, you’ll find sloping top tubes in most high-end road race bicycles. We’ve since stayed true to all the many positives this design brings to overall bike performance and comfort. First, this design allows the top tube to be lower, providing more room for correct positioning and free body movement, enabling more standover clearance, which 11
Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE K
Page 6 and 7: FAQs What is Kona’s address? Worl
Page 8 and 9: THE KONA TIMELINE 1988 • Kona is
Page 10 and 11: THE KONA TIMELINE • Two BMX model
Page 14 and 15: TECHNOLOGY 2011 KONA BIKES is parti
Page 16 and 17: XC DUAL SUSPENSION PLATFORM OVERVIE
Page 18 and 19: 2+2 DL XC DUAL SUSPENSION With the
Page 20 and 21: TANUKI DL XC DUAL SUSPENSION It mig
Page 22 and 23: ABRA CADABRA XC DUAL SUSPENSION All
Page 24 and 25: CALDERA MOUNTAIN BIKE / XC HARD TAI
Page 26 and 27: BLAST MOUNTAIN BIKE / XC HARD TAIL
Page 28 and 29: FIRE MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN BIKE / XC HA
Page 30 and 31: 29er PLATFORM OVERVIEW 28 The big b
Page 32 and 33: KAHUNA 29ER Big wheels, big confide
Page 34 and 35: HEI HEI 2-9 29ER The ultimate dual
Page 36 and 37: HEI HEI 100 MOUNTAIN BIKE / XC RACE
Page 38 and 39: KULA GOLD MOUNTAIN BIKE / XC RACE I
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Page 42 and 43: STINKY TL OUT OF BOUNDS / FREERIDE
Page 44 and 45: DIRT JUMP / SLOPESTYLE PLATFORM OVE
Page 46 and 47: COWAN DIRT JUMP / SLOPESTYLE Design
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Page 50 and 51: STUFF DIRT JUMP / TRAIL Simple, fun
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Page 54 and 55: OPERATOR DH DOWNHILL We took what w
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Page 58 and 59: KULA LISA WOMEN’S It’s a beauty
Page 60 and 61: LISA RD WOMEN’S Designed to be a
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MAKENA KIDS’ Set the wee one free
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SHRED 2-0 KIDS’ Pint-sized ripper
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STINKY 2-4 KIDS’ We’ve been mak
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JAKE CYCLOCROSS Kona cyclocross bik
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MAJOR JAKE CYCLOCROSS Spanking new
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HONKY INC. ROAD Designed specifical
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PADDY WAGON ROAD Our singlespeed/fi
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SUTRA ROAD Our ultra-marathon, ride
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ZING ROAD The name says it all. A b
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HUMU SIMPLICITY Our classic beach/b
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BIKE SIMPLICITY This is the Kona Bi
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ELECTRIC UTE SIMPLICITY The Electri
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TICKET SIMPLICITY The bicycle has t
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DEW ASPHALT / COMMUTER The car is c
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DEW DELUXE ASPHALT / COMMUTER There
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DR. DEW ASPHALT / COMMUTER The clas
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DR. FINE ASPHALT / COMMUTER The nam
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MODELS XC HARDTAILS Lanai Fire Mtn
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MODELS XC HARDTAILS Lanai Fire Mtn
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