Advantages: Great handling, climbs like a mountain goat Disadvantages: Can be a handfull on rough, fast decents
To date I've owned three KonaKulas, 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 KonaKula 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: Singletrack, Marathon Machine Disadvantages: Don't try jumping on it
I already owned a KonaKula, 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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Advantages: Groovy, wacky indie brilliance. Britpop at its best. Disadvantages: Not for everybody.....and there is an occasional dodgy lyric
Kula Shaker.....
I'll begin with a little summary of the band, in case you don't know them (I know most of my friends don't!). Kula Shaker were a indie/alternative rock band formed in 1994, part of the britpop movement of the nineties along with more famous bands such as Blur, Oasis and Pulp. What set Kula Shaker apart from the majority of the Britpoppers, though, were their influences, which ranged from sixties psychedelia to Indian folk music (the name of the band itself coming from an ancient Indian mystic, i think). The band was headed by Crispian Mills, vocalist and guitarist, but they split up in 1999, when Mills left to pursue his own projects....
So thats enough of the history, you're here to learn about the album (I hope). K was Kula Shaker's first album, released in 1996, at the height of Britpop-mania. At the time the album ...
ClangerWrangler 03.04.2001
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