Kona Lana'I

This is the entry level bike from kona, it is a good quality (as always from kona) hardtail mountain bike it is competitively priced to meet the lower budget bikes, it would be a solid buy and will keep value well due to it being made buy Kona.

Advantages: great performance and vale for money
Disadvantages: looks perhaps aren't to everyone's taste

...My girlfriend has just bought her first mountain bike; a Kona Lana'i . I've been riding and racing for many years and have been very impressed by the shifting performance of her Alivio gear set up. I’ve been using Shimano XT gears for years but having now ridden this Alivio shifter for some time I’m really impressed with the crispness of shifting, ease of set up and maintenance. It perhaps doesn’t look quite so good or work quite as perfectly as Shimano’s higher priced offerings but at the end of the day this is a budget mechanism designed appropriately and priced and marketed in the same fashion. As a budget shifter this can’t be beaten in my opinion, set up properly it works as well as a shifter more than twice the price and is a great first budget buy before upgrading in the future to more expensive kit. I can’t comment on how... Read review

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