{"id":4281,"date":"2017-01-21T19:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T18:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2017-01-21T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T18:27:43","slug":"kona-fire-mountain-1991-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4281","title":{"rendered":"Kona Fire Mountain 1991 &#8211; reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o-300x119.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o-768x304.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o-1024x405.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o-150x59.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o-400x158.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16251819_10158058177580414_1792879988141741849_o.jpg 1526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This photo is of my 1991 Kona Fire Mountain, taken outside my Student house on column road, Cardiff in about May 1991. I road the bike both for commuting, recreational mountain biking and even the odd race until about 1999 when I bought a replacement (Raleigh ex works race machine). I then lent the bike to a Walton Chasers junior who took it off to use as a student commute in Sheffield for about 5 years. I got it back briefly and then gave it to a friend who used it for commuting in Matlock before moving to York and using it there for a commute until about 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/01\/16114951_10158058178440414_1057011655164087367_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Eventually her bike to work scheme made it redundant and I got the frame back and it has been gathering dust in my garage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about building a commuting hack bike for the 4 mile ride into the station when I don&#8217;t take the Brompton with me on the train and thought the Kona frame would bring a bit of Retro to the Stafford station bike racks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used all sorts of old bits, with a donated fork and just had to buy a seatpost and a stem to get it up and running.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only pootled up and down the road &#8211; it rides OK but its definetley rose tinted glasses &#8211; how on earth I rode it up and down Snowdon in the early 90s I have no idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is of my 1991 Kona Fire Mountain, taken outside my Student house on column road, Cardiff in about May 1991. I road the bike both for commuting, recreational mountain biking and even the odd race until about 1999 when I bought a replacement (Raleigh ex works race machine). I then lent the bike &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kona Fire Mountain 1991 &#8211; reborn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-kit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}