Advantages: Great handling, climbs like a mountain goat Disadvantages: Can be a handfull on rough, fast decents
To date I've owned three Kona Kulas, spanning a perod of nearly ten years. I've ridden 100km marathons on one, ridden the trails of South Wales on one, and commuted on one, so from that you could surmise that I like the bike. Well yes I do, but as technology has moved on is there still a place for the Kona Kula in todays market place?
When it comes to riding fast, smooth singletrack, either up hill or down, the Kula is superb. The bike climbs very, very well, and the twistier and tighter the singletrack gets, the more the bike excells. Fireroad climbs are eaten for breakfast, and the geometry of the bike is such that it can be thrown back down with gay abandon. However, once a few rocks start appearing, you'll need to sharpen up. There's no ploughing headlong through rock gardens on this bike. The back end will give you a swift kick ...
Greasylake 22.12.2006
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Advantages: lathers up well and doesn't dry out the skin Disadvantages: murky brown colour, didn't have much of a scent
I really wanted to try Lush's Pineapple Grunt soap for two reasons. Firstly, I love anything with a fruity scent, and I especially love the scent of pineapple. It's rare to find beauty products that have a pineapple fragrance - at least I can't think of any off the top of my head, so I was looking forward to giving this a go, thinking that the scent would make it the perfect summer soap. The second reason I wanted to try it, was that at just £1.50 for a 100g bar it makes it Lush's cheapest soap. Do bare in mind, however, that it is only available to buy online as it's part of the Retro range so you will need to pay postage costs on top.
On the website the soap is shown as being a bright, vibrant yellow colour. I don't know what went wrong with my bar, but rather than the sunny colour of pineapple, what arrived was a sludgy brown bar ...
Advantages: Singletrack, Marathon Machine Disadvantages: Don't try jumping on it
I already owned a Kona Kula, but the rocks of Glyncorrwg had finally wrecked my ageing body, and I needed a full suspention bike. I loved the sharp handling Kula, and so The King seemed the obvious choice. I wasn't to be dissapointed.
I'm about 5'11" tall, and went for the 19" size. It fits like a glove. With "only" four inches of travel there are plusher bikes out there, but The King loves twisty singletrack, and that was the main reason for me going for it. This bike loves singletrack. There's enough travel to get you through the rockiest sections of Afan Argoed, and it climbs very well. It's by no means superlight, coming in at about 26lbs, but the bike rides light, and is a great marathon machine.
I swapped the FSA wheelset, fo a Chris King wheel set I had lying around, and put the FSA set on the bike I ride to work. They ...
Greasylake 05.02.2008
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