Kona Mountain Bikes Review

Kona Mountain Bikes is a company based in Washington state that manufactures and sells mountain bikes and biking apparel. The name Kona comes from the founder’s favorite island in Hawaii. Kona Mountain Bikes offers several lines of bicycles, including women’s, kids, mountain, trail, racing and more. Kona’s official website offers a community discussion forum and many other useful resources for bicyclists. The company offers a one-year limited warranty on all bicycles, and a lifetime warranty on its bike frames. Kona Mountain bike models include Dawg, Cadabra, Kula, Hei Hei, Stinky, Shred, Hula, Coilair, Kula and Lisa. Kona Mountain Bikes are available from the official website and from other online and offline retailers.

The official website of Kona Mountain Bikes offers many features besides just selling its bikes and biking gear. Kona Mountain Bikes sponsors several bike racing teams and also supplies many mountain bike parks around the world with equipment. There is a world map with links to bike parks, as well as pages about all of the racing teams that Kona sponsors. Kona’s website has a daily blog about biking called Kona Cog, as well as videos streaming on a site called konaworld.tv. Kona Mountain Bikes also runs a charitable project called Africabike, in which the company donates Africabike models to HIV/AIDS healthcare workers living in Africa. The website offers technical resources such as owner’s manuals for its bikes, as well as selling individual components of its bikes. The community forum offered on the website allows Kona Mountain Bikes has a technical support section that is undoubtedly helpful to owners of Kona bikes.

Kona Mountain Bikes’ website is visually attractive, quick to load, and easy to navigate. There is a little too much information jumbled on the homepage, but the website has a lot to offer so this is understandable. Kona Mountain Bikes also has a Facebook page and a Twitter page.

The range of mountain bike models offered at Kona seems to fit every mountain biking need. Of the dozens of models on offer by Kona, several of them are women’s bikes. While men can easily search for bike models by functional categories, such as trail, mountain, sphalt and racing, all of the women’s bike models are lumped into one category. Also, the names of the women’s models do not explain the model’s function, so women shopping for Kona bikes must read each detailed description for the women’s bike models and interpret them based on her own biking needs. Popular searched parts include Avid brakes, Shimano derailleur, Shimano crankset, Kona seatpost, and Kona handlebars.

Models

Average Pricing

New Kona Mountain Bikes range from about $500 to $4,599.