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I love my retro rigid Kona

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Some of you may recall my posting around October last year about my stolen Kona Kiluaea. Through an incredible bit of blind (well, sharp-eyed really) luck, I encountered and reclaimed my precious about three years after it was stolen.

Well, since last October my 5 Spot has often been left disgruntled and unloved in my bedroom as I've gone off gallivanting with my once-lost love. It's great to switch between a disc brake equipped FS bike and my old retro rigid bike from weekend to weekend. It seems to have improved my riding on, and enjoyment of, both bikes

Here are a few shots from riding last weekend. It might give also you a few ideas of what a weird bunch of people the ex-pat mtb community in Korea really is.

Picture 1: I have devised a way of avoiding future thefts by cleverly leaning my bike up against matching surfaces.

Picture 2: Fortunately probably nobody will want to steal this bike after seeing the hardcore flower abuse I have put the bike through.

Picture 3: I guess some might say rigid bikes went out with the dinosaurs. Well, there are still a few of them around.

Picture 4: I like flowers.

Picture 5: A good example of when not to ride.

Cheers, Duncan
 

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Cheers. I ride with the Korean riders a lot of the time too. Koreans are very fit and enthusiastic bikers. And the hikers are generally very tolerant of and friendly towards bikers too.
 
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