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57 Comments
  • 63 2
 Head angles a bit steep for me
  • 8 0
 Yeah but that back wheel is tucked up there super close...should be able to pop off jumps and I reckon it'll corner pretty good hahahahah
  • 10 0
 It'll turn right pretty quickly, left might be interesting though.
  • 8 0
 just keep turning right and eventually you will go left
  • 3 0
 Well there's your problem......
  • 10 0
 I see Kona is still using the same engineers....
  • 3 0
 Its sad to say that the fucking frame will bend before the boxxers break....haha
  • 2 0
 Or the wheels
  • 33 3
 I'm glad Kona aptly named their new bike the, "Operator." Simply because your going to need one after the bike snaps in half while flying down a hill.
  • 9 9
 Lol. True
  • 24 2
 Let the kona hating begin...
  • 15 4
 He probably had it on a roof rack and drove into parking garage.
  • 8 1
 Or, he rode it straight into a tree Wink He was in the tent next to me at the race, saw him walking back down to the field... Past the entire uplift que
  • 11 0
 needs moar slack
  • 10 0
 DUDE How ? O.o
  • 15 2
 "I was just riding along and suddenly... it bent!"
  • 5 0
 he whent over a fast corner at the lower section of the bds track and hit a tree lucky to walk away from that im glad to say Smile
  • 5 0
 hahah ......... Still Rideable ....... Not Crack so far Razz
  • 7 17
flag LipekFR (Aug 8, 2012 at 8:35) (Below Threshold)
 i love konas
  • 9 0
 that'll buff out
  • 5 0
 Lol i cant believe they still bend there. Just like the old stab primos. At least they're consistent.
  • 4 0
 what worries me is the fork and the wheel seem to be perfectly intact but the frame is f*cked. how does that happen????
  • 4 0
 whats the headangle on that, jk, but holy shit dude,it must of hert
  • 3 0
 that bike needs to be operated on
  • 4 1
 Tht's why u don't buy a kona
  • 3 0
 hahahahahaha
  • 1 0
 Maybe someday they will make a strong dh bike but untill then I would be afraid to ride one hard
  • 2 1
 oh, please.... kona needs to shut down their business or just get thrown in the garbage.
  • 1 0
 thank god i never went and bent my tube to copy this, here is the flaw, in this design, but its sad it always happen to kona
  • 2 0
 Just bought one!!!!!!!!!!
  • 6 4
 teehee
  • 11 6
 nothing funny about that what if it was your bike.
  • 7 1
 ^^you would get it warranted
  • 13 7
 that probably wouldn't happen to a iron horse lol
  • 1 0
 Dam,,, that new head angle at kona wild looking.
  • 1 0
 definitely beyond salvageable
  • 1 0
 Definitely going to need a steering dampener !!
  • 2 0
 needs gussets
  • 2 0
 Well theres your problem
  • 1 0
 Ooooh you scratched your frame. Bad luckBig Grin
  • 1 0
 WOW A KONA I THOUGHT THEY WERE KNOWN FOR NOT SNAPPING
  • 1 0
 .......
  • 1 0
 Oops.
  • 3 3
 shitty
  • 1 2
 still useable as a dropbike...
  • 5 6
 QUALITY
  • 5 1
 tsss sss
  • 6 9
 Boys will be boys, and Konas will be Konas!
  • 6 9
 Konas always break!
  • 5 5
 No shit!
  • 9 3
 what ever forces did that to that bike, could have done it to any bike. if that was a 9.9 session you wouldnt be hating. its 2003, konas arent bad. why does whistler use them as their official bike park bike, its becuase nubes renting can beat the shit out of them and they stay built. its not a new technology, but they are good quality.
  • 5 3
 I dunno man , I've heard that the operators are pretty notorious for cracking/fractures
  • 3 1
 bro, with all due respect, whens the last time you rode a kona operator? because 2011 and 12 have been quite a step up for the company. evil bikes on the other hand, i could understand not trusting the frame.
  • 4 3
 Quite a few people are having problems with Operators..
  • 10 0
 whistler uses glory's............
  • 5 1
 last time i checked whistler dropped kona as official partner and it's now giant...







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