KONA MOUNTAIN BIKES
Kona Mountain Bikes is based in Ferndale, Washington and Vancouver, BC. Recently, many riders and publications have discovered our local North Shore and Galbraith Mountain trails. While everybody thinks that they ride extreme trails, many would gape in disbelief down some of the near vertical, root entangled, mud slides to hell that we ride on every day. This may not be the best riding, but it is very brutal on equipment and riders. It is in these conditions that we evaluate frame design and components. The feeling is, if it works here, it should work anywhere.

The Kona name comes from our fascination with volcanic things. We're located on the Northern edge of the volcanic Cascade Mountain Range, which runs down the Pacific Coast from Canada to Southern California. The Hawaiian Islands are a volcanic chain, so the Kona name connection came along naturally.

Kona was founded in 1988 by long-time riders and racers who had previously worked for other pioneering West Coast mountain bike companies. The original Kona bicycles were custom machines based on our own preference in high-performance off-road bikes. This tradition of making thoughtful, reliable, well-balanced bicycles is still the cornerstone of the Kona way.

FRAME DESIGN

KONA DUAL SUSPENSION DESIGN FEATURES

* Kona Walking Beam 4-Bar Linkage
* BACK COUNTRY DUAL SUSPENSION - Bear, Bear Dee-Lux
* CROSS-COUNTRY DUAL SUSPENSION - Kahuna, Manomano, Mokomoko, King Kikapu
* OUT OF BOUNDS ("FREERIDE") DUAL SUSPENSION - Stinky, Stinky Dee-Lux, Stinky Primo
* GRAVITY (DOWNHILL) BIKES DUAL SUSPENSION - Stinky Nine, Stab Primo

SERVICE NOTES FOR DUAL SUSPENSION

SET-UP NOTES FOR SUSPENSION

* REAR SUSPENSION
* FOX SHOCK TERMINOLOGY
* FOX MAINTENANCE AND MAINTENANCE INTERVALS
* FRONT SUSPENSION

FRAME MATERIALS:ALUMINUM

ALUMINUM DOWNHILL & DUAL SUSPENSION MODELS

* STAB PRIMO
* STINKY NINE
* STINKY / STINKY DEE-LUX / STINKY PRIMO
* BEAR, BEAR DEE-LUX
* KING KIKAPU / MOKOMOKO
* KAHUNA, MANOMANO

ALUMINUM CROSS COUNTRY HARDTAIL MODELS

* KULA
* PAHOEHOE
* MUNI-MULA
* CALDERA
* CINDER CONE
* NUNU
* BLAST
* FIRE MOUNTAIN
* HAHANNA
* LANA'I
* HULA

ALUMINUM "OUT OF BOUNDS" HARDTAIL MODELS

* CHUTE
* ROAST
* STUFF

ALUMINUM COMFORT HARDTAIL MODELS

* TIKI
* ALOHA

ALUMINUM ROAD MODELS

* JAKE THE SNAKE
* DR. DEW
* KAPU

FRAME MATERIALS:STEEL

STEEL CROSS COUNTRY HARDTAIL MODELS

* EXPLOSIF
* LAVA DOME
* HAHANNA
* UNIT

STEEL "OUT OF BOUNDS" HARDTAIL MODELS

* SCAB
KONA FORKS

* PROJECT TWO FORK
* KONA JUMP FORK
* PROJECT TWO 700c FORK

KONA COMPONENTS

* KONA BULGE CROMOLY CRANK
* KONA RING OF FIRE ROCK GUARD
* KONA DB RISER HANDLEBAR
* KONA DH RISER HANDLEBAR
* KONA DH PRIMO HANDLEBAR
* KONA BULGE HUBS
* KONA JACKSHIT PEDALS
* REPLACEMENT NOTE

FRAME WARRANTY