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Kona
08 Kona DAWG DELUXE
SKUKON08-DAWG DELUXE
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  Take our all Mountain Dawg and make it a little more Deluxe with a lockout capable front fork, some upgraded brakes, different paint … and BAM! … you’ve got the Deluxe version.- Year 1800
- Frame 2008
- Rear Shock Kona Race Light Scandium Butted, 5" Travel
- Fork
- Headset Fox Float RP2
- Chainset FOX Float RL 140mm
- Front Mech FSA Orbit DL
- Rear Mech Shimano Deore (11-34, 9spd)
- Shifters Shimano LX
- Rims Shimano XT Shadow
- Hubs Maxxis Ignitor 26 x 2.35
- Cassette FSA XC-300 Wheelset
- Tyres Shimano HG53
- Brakes FSA XC-300 Wheelset
- Brake LeversKona Race Light
- Handle Bar Hayes Stroker Carbon Hydraulic V6
- Stem Shimano LX
- Saddle RaceFace Evolve XC riser OS
- Seat Pin FSA XC-300 Wheelset
- Pedals WTB Laser V Race
- WeightRaceFace Evolve XC X-Type
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating
What Mountain Bike - May 2008 Issue 82
Biggest Bike Test EVER 7 £1500 Full-Suss Bikes.
Out of the 7 bikes tested the Winner is... The Kona Dawg £1375
Excellent all-round trail fun in high-value, upgradeable package 9/10
Kona has made some big changes in the way it has joined the dots. For a start, it has moved scandium alloyed tubing from it's race bikes and into its trail bikes, which means significant weight loss from the frame.
. By changing the whole cockpit leverage, it gives a real vitality, lightness of touch and speed of steering. The slack head angle and long top tube mean the short stem doesn’t cut into high speed/steep descent stability or breathing space on climbs either. Kona offsets most of the easily charted wonders of linkages and altered wheel paths just by getting the shock tune right. Add the generous top tube length and fast rolling tyres, and the Dawg was scrabbling up the banks far better than it should. You can still get the Dawg to pull it’s back wheel off the ground when sprinting out of corners, or smack hard off the face of bigger blocks, while pedalling through rockeries, but that’s a good sign.…..the Dawg feels totally sorted for the technical riding, right from the off.
Apart from setting the sag, and checking the tyre pressure, we didn’t do anything else to it….with the Kona, all we had to find was our favourite bit of singletrack. The great thing about the Kona is that we wanted to absolutely thrash it as soon as we got on it. Because we didn’t need to flick the lockout lever on, we didn’t forget to flick it off for descents. The simple truth is that it [the Dawg] is good fun. Enough travel to really let rip, not so much weight that you’ll die on climbs, and so much fun on the best bits of the trail that we just wanted to ride it again and again. Despite having the lowest price tag here [out of 7 bikes], there’s nothing that screams for an immediate change, although there’s bags of upgrade potential for future investors.
What clinches the win though, is the totally sorted handling balance that you just can't help thrash, launch, sprint and slide through the singletrack all-day long.
We know it's corny, but this time man's best friend really is his Dawg.
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