Spotted: New Kona Carbon Prototype Downhill Bike

One of the best looking DH frames i’ve seen in a while.

@PDXFixed I agree the main triangle really looks like a Trek frame! Can’t really see if it has the ABP at the back.

@ LP….FYI if you click on the image you can see that it is without a concentric dropout pivot (ABP). I was curious, too…

@ccolagio: 104mm press fit BB is the same as an 83mm threaded BB shell, just like a 92mm press fit BB is the same as a 73mm threaded BB shell. And the 157mm rear is a 150mm with 3.5mm guide slots on the frame, just like the 142mm hub is a 135mm with 3.5mm guide slots on the frame.

@KJR: wasnt aware that there was an 104 press BB. my thoughts are – will longer crank spindles (thus special cranks) be needed and will a special 157mm hub be needed or are they just using a 150+ spacers. being that 142 rear ends use 142 hubs and not spaced 135 hubs

Just like you can put 135×12 into 142 – with two spacer (though it will be marginally less stiff as cups do not rest in frame), you can use 150×12 in 157.

It should be called the Kona Karboner.

Mountain Biking as a Sport is only 35 years old… look how far any other sport evolved in that time period like Snow boarding, or scuba diving, or ultralight aircraft. In the same time period essentially we’ve gone from strapping lawnmower engines with propellers onto hang gliders to an entire light sport aircraft industry that forced the FAA to adopt new rules and regulations and create a new pilot category along with it.

People need to quit living in the past.