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Description:
- Rear Shock: Fox DHX Air 5.0
- Fork: Fox 36 Talas RC2 150mm
- Shifters: Shimano Deore XT
- Handlebar: RaceFace Evolve DH OS Riser
- Stem: RaceFace Evolve DH OS
- Grips: Kona Jackshit
- Saddle: WTB Pure V Race FR
- Seatpost: RaceFace Evolve DH
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Submitted by
James Richey
a Weekend Warrior
from Auburn, WA USA
Date Reviewed: May 11, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | Black Diamond | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1400.00 | | Purchased At: | Craigslist | | Strengths: | A good climber, absorbs all the bumps, smooth and makes you feel in control at all times! I go faster and enjoy the trails way more than my favorite old bike. | | Weaknesses: | Weight | | Similar Products Used: | Enduro pro, DBR, Giant Trance, Giant Reign, Big hit | | Bike Setup: | Stock except Mavic 528 rims | | Bottom Line: | As my friend Doug said yesterday, "with this bike, I won't be waiting for you anymore". Even though it weighs more than my DBR cross country set up, I have more control, and am willing to try and enjoy things that I would not have before. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Cullen
a Weekend Warrior
from VT
Date Reviewed: October 12, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Yo Vinny | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$3000.00 | | Purchased At: | Direct from Kona | | Strengths: | 2007 Kona Coilair. Reasonably light, weighs in at about 36-37 lbs with pedals. Very Stable at high speeds, very nimble in the air, has the kona reputation behind it, and the fork (fox 36 float r)is amazing. it always bottoms smoothly (If you can hit anything hard enough to bottom.) Well specd, fun to ride. | | Weaknesses: | The rear suspension is extremely linear. The choice is pretty much between plush absorption or pump it up stiffer than preffered to make big drops to flatter landings a bit better. Luckily the dhx 3.0 bottoms smoothly and the boost valve helps it to ramp up on high speed hits. ** the stock maxxis advantage tire on my bike rubs on the frame when it bottoms out. Stinks that kona didn't think to fix this, but a tire with a shorter casing will do the trick** Seat tube angle is a little slack for serious xc stuff, but moving the seat forward helps a bit. | | Similar Products Used: | in terms of durablilty, the 05 coiler and other konas | | Bike Setup: | stock except a semi-slick maxxis high roller rear (to be switched to a 2.5 mobster)
A word of caution, route the rear brake hose by running it up from the last guide under the top tube, zip tie it to both the seat tube support mast, and the seat tube just below the seat post clamp, and then leave some extra hose between there and the seat stay where the next guide is. Make sure the hose is out of the way of the swing arm (I managed to pinch the hose on mine on the second day out with a different routing)
As far as sizing, I'm 6 foot and riding a medium. Its perfect for the riding this bike is intended for. | | Bottom Line: | If you do everything including trail rides, all mountain stuff, jumps, and spend a big chunk of time riding at lift accessed bike parks, this thing is great.
Note though that it is not a cross country bike! You won't win any xc races on this thing.
The suspension is easily adjustable, the components are reliable and its just fun to ride. For downhilling and freeriding, the 65.7 degree head angle (though it sounds slack) is a savior, especially on really steep stuff and through rock gardens. The suspension does and amazing job of absorbing everything you ride through, especially for 6" If you can stay seated with the slack seat tube angle, the propedal and boost valve make a great pedaling platform, but it bobs a bit while standing. Over all, I love this thing. It can do everything pretty well, and rules at bike parks on 4x, slopestyle type stuff, north shore stunts, and extremely tech downhill single track. Kona also manages to spec great bikes for the price, so great value. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex
a Downhiller
from Nelson, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: September 10, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$4800.00 | | Purchased At: | Cycle Surgery Nel | | Strengths: | This review is for a Coilair Supreme as there is no category for it. Tuff, Great handling, Well spec ed. Good climber great descender. Big fun factor. | | Weaknesses: | Price!! We get that here with the U.S. dollar. Fox DHX 5.0 air shock stuck down on the first ride but was repaired by the service agent and hasn't been a problem since. | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized Enduro. Giant DH Comp, Kona Stab Deluxe. | | Bike Setup: | Stock. Changed the tyres to 2.35 kendas and the small ring to a 22 to help out the climbs. D.O.P.E brake system. Spec is so good there is no need to change anything. | | Bottom Line: | This is the closest bike I've ever ridden that can do nearly anything good. It climbs, descends like a DH bike, can be trail ridden all day. The D.O.P.E. brake system is well worth the extra $ for the gain in handling on the down hill. AAA+++ | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Charles Veitch
a Downhiller
from London, UK
Date Reviewed: September 4, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Les Gets | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$3000.00 | | Purchased At: | Evanscycles.com | | Strengths: | Very light but built very strongly - also looks very sexy. Good quality stock components, easy to use. You will get used to this bike instantly. A very polished jack of all trades | | Weaknesses: | None - I mean it. | | Similar Products Used: | Glory Freeride, Stinky, Orange Patriot | | Bike Setup: | As stock, with the 3 ring crank by Race Face | | Bottom Line: | This is the all round giant killer (and Giant killer). I got this bike for only $3000US (£1500 UK) as it's 2006. I took it downhilling the same day I got it, and it is SO FAST. Because it's so light you can really whip it into the air, and with the fat Fox forks at the front (36s) you have all the confidence to land hard. I am a big guy, 6ft 5inches and 250lbs, but this bike makes me feel sprightly...
Racing it against my friend's Orange Big T, his bike is so heavy and more of a downhiller, the Coilair is the Prince of Freeriding.
Love it
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Submitted by
Dave
a Downhiller
from North Grafton
Date Reviewed: August 27, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$4000.00 | | Purchased At: | Gravitty Warehouse | | Strengths: | Best all around bike there is!!! If you want a bike that can climb well and fly downhill, than this is the bike you want. | | Weaknesses: | The wheels couldn't take my 210 lb butt doin drops... Nothin major, just have to true them once in a while | | Similar Products Used: | None... I have a Bighit and a P1... | | Bike Setup: | Mostly stock. I ditched the air shock right out of the box and had a DHX 5.0 COIL put on...LOVE IT!! | | Bottom Line: | Love this bike, puts up with some extreme cross country riding and the occasion hucking. Extremely plush travel, yet pedals very efficiantly, due to the PRO PEDAL. Love the Race Face components and Saint brakes. No complaints... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Perry Kveton
a Downhiller
from Live in Indonesia, From Truckee CA
Date Reviewed: July 4, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Downieville Downhill | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$2800.00 | | Purchased At: | The Back Country LBS | | Strengths: | Crazy good for all around riding: XC, Downhill, Freeride...even street use is good due tothe adjustable travel/recoil | | Weaknesses: | none so far- except that the new one is out with a lower top tube, who cares? | | Similar Products Used: | Jamis Dakar XAM 2.0, 1.0, Kona Coiler | | Bike Setup: | Kona CoilAir bone stock except for a cateye comp | | Bottom Line: | This bike nails the all-around awesomness. I generally use it for DH up at lifted resorts, however, i also use it for riding around town A LOT. adjust the travel, adjust the recoil, raise the seat and you're set for power up pavement. the only downside with that is that i now need to invest in some phat street freeride tires :D | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jorge
a
from Ecuador
Date Reviewed: March 21, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Great bike to do anything. Light enough to climb and an incredible performance on downhill. | | Weaknesses: | None so far | | Similar Products Used: | Kona Stinky
Marin B-17
GT Rts1 | | Bottom Line: | I love this bike. I ride it 4 times a week, in different terrains, and it’s amazing how comfortable and confident you feel. I strongly recommend this bike to all mountain riders and freeriders | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
STEFANO BOR
a Weekend Warrior
from aosta italy
Date Reviewed: February 11, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | PILA | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$3900.00 | | Purchased At: | BC E BIKE AOSTA | | Strengths: | fantastic descender and good climber for the weight. not so heavy with some substitutions | | Weaknesses: | wheels, stem | | Similar Products Used: | Cannondale gemini | | Bike Setup: | standard but thomson X4 stem 90 mm. seatpost and handlebar RF next, Mavic Xmax XL with Maxxis larsen TT 2,35 post and Ignitor 3,35 ant | | Bottom Line: | Fantastic bike, i have done with it a maxiavalanche (cervinia) and a lot of epic rides (cogne- chemporcher, aosta chemolè-aosta (1800 m up and down denivelation), a bit heavy in standard (the wheels and cockpit), but with my setup only 14,5 kg (32 lbs), I love it and have done 1900 km the last summer.
I you have some long climbs an technical downhills is the best bike i have seen. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ndee Dee
a
from Eu
Date Reviewed: October 14, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | good allround package, smooth on DH, clibs well, not too heavy, excellent suspension | | Weaknesses: | stem (what were they thinking?), handlebar (heavy and narrow), hubs (especially front), rims (heavy and not strongest). I am the only one who could use a slacker fork angle at this amount of travel??? Gets pretty nervous at speed and in short holes... hayes also not my favourite brake, requires too much TLC, good size rotos though | | Bike Setup: | stock except stem/bar, pedals | | Bottom Line: | had a great season on it, from epic rides to some suicidal downhills. I'll keep loking for a bike with slacker fork angle and nicer wheelset, brakes... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rich
a Cross Country Rider
from Boise
Date Reviewed: October 12, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Creampuff Course | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Rides like a DH bike Downhill and climbs as well as any Trailbike. Best DH trail bike out there IMHO. This frame/shock/fork combo makes for a high speed demon that will trick you into selling your soul to the devil! | | Weaknesses: | For $3999 retail the off the shelf product is a very weak build, Kona really needs to get thier act together, the XT drive train is slightly weak but the bar/stem is overkill, the hubs are lame but the rims are alright, and the brakes barely fit a bike of that price, which for the price should be full saint or something? Just doesn't compete with other offerings from SC, Ellesworth, etc. | | Similar Products Used: | Kona Dawg, Coiler, Ellesworth Epiphany, Santa Cruz v10;) | | Bike Setup: | FSA gravity carbon bars, thompson stem/seatpost, SRAM X.0 drive train, 8" rotor up front, everything else stock | | Bottom Line: | The bottom line is that this bike ran like a raped ape right our of the DH gate, something about a Kona that rips. It also beat a bunch of young 20 something XC riders up a mondo climb on it's 3rd ride and my friends have come to fear it on the way down. The crapmano drive train was a pain cuz it ran well for about a week and after a slight bump on the rear d needed complete replacing. Again for the price should have had nicer wheels, drive train, stem, handlebars, brakes. Came with 2.3 tires too, right . . . The fork and rear shock are as good as it gets though and that really puts the smile factor through the roof when it points downhill. Is this the one true bike though, it's definately getting there! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
stefano
a Weekend Warrior
from aosta italy
Date Reviewed: September 14, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$3990.00 | | Purchased At: | italy | | Strengths: | Strong, indestructible, not excessive heavy, components selection (fox 36 talas, DHX air 5 race face componenets | | Weaknesses: | a bit heavy in the wheels and stem-bar departments, | | Similar Products Used: | cannondale gemini | | Bike Setup: | standard, now race face next seatpost and hanlebar, thomson X4 stem, i am waiting hope pro, mavic 717 wheels | | Bottom Line: | I have done with this bike everything, 24 hours race, maxiavalanche in cervinia, long (2000 meters of positive uphills) trail ridings up to 4-6 hours) and, if are not hurry going up, this is a fantastic bike, i love it a lot.
If you love mountain biking, non downhill or black diamond or cross country, but only mountain biking, this is the bike for you | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
cam rich
a Downhiller
from canada
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | panorama | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$3400.00 | | Purchased At: | river valley cycle | | Strengths: | every thing your riding on the most advanced six inches of travel around excellent componets race face everything and all fox suspension hayse brakes minion maxxis tires | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | shore 1 norco six santa cruz nomad santa cruz heckler | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | this is a do everything bike and it is a blast in bike parks | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jaysin
a Weekend Warrior
from nor cal, usa
Date Reviewed: July 2, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | you get some nice stuff on the bike but for the wheelset. you will break yourself before you scratch this bike. this thing is B A | | Weaknesses: | can buy a moto for a couple more g,s. the front hub on the wheelset that comes with the bike is a joke that is not funny. the rims will flat spot on the first hippy you run over. | | Similar Products Used: | majik carpet, various club drugs | | Bike Setup: | stock except for mavic wheels. its the rider that matters | | Bottom Line: | if you cant have fun on a bike like this then stay in school | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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