The KONA Dirty Weekend is a 24hr off road endurance challenge along some of the best riding tracks in SA, ripe for knobbly nuts and fun-loving folk who want to get down and dirty.
We are pleased to announce that the 2010 KONA Dirty Weekend is the South Australian qualifying event for the 24 Hours of Adrenalin 2010 World Solo 24 Hour Mountain Bike Championships!
Latest News
20 May - Read the full story about the 2010 Kona Dirty Weekend here
11 May - Recap:A Big thanks to all our sponsors!
Our wonderful sponsors contributed many great prizes to the Kona Dirty Weekend, including:
Kona jackets, jerseys, socks and bottles
Pedro's bike care kits
Thousands of dollars of NiteFLUX product vouchers
Great Ground Effect gear
Hundreds of dollars of Roof Rack City vouchers
Lots of great Body Torque clothing
Tyres, tubes and jerseys from Slime
A'qto gear from Oxygen Cycles
Plenty of goodies from Big Foot bags
Ergon grips and Squirt lube from Over the Edge
Plus a special accommodation, catering and bike hire package from Melrose and Over the Edge
Prize massages from the three resident masseurs
And skill session prizes from Escapegoat
Big big big thanks to them all!
10 May - Recap: Fantastic Weekend at Kona Dirty Weekend! Blue skies, sunny weather and a track in perfect conditions made this year's Kona Dirty Weekend a raving success. 260 motivated riders came out to race and enjoy the laid-back atmosphere that compliments the Kona Dirty Weekend. Brett Anderson won the Male 24HR Solo category with a staggering 30 laps while Bell Chamberlain took the female 24Hr solo category gold with 20 laps. The provisional times and results are posted on this website (final results will be posted later this week), as well as pictures and more event news!
03 May - Groupe Sportif will be holding a demo day(s) for Kona Dealers at our Kona Dirty Weekend! They have a limited number of Magic Link bikes available for testing. We will have the Cadabra & Abra Cadabra models available. If you want to feel the Magic and understand firsthand how these bikes work then join them all day at the Kona Dirty Weekend event village this weekend at Mt crawford Forest in Cudlee Creek.** Please note these days are weather dependent **
If you are interested in a little history on the Magic Link read on
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Kona raised eyebrows when it announced its Magic Link-equipped Coil-Air in 2008. After all, the company hadn't produced a new suspension system for the better part of a decade, choosing instead to rely on the classic four-bar design. What the four-bar lacked in sexy marketing mojo, it made up for with trademark Kona durability. But when the company decided it wanted a better mousetrap, it did so with a newfangled design, the likes of which the industry had never seen-which is really saying something, considering the staggering number of suspension concepts that have come and gone. The 2009 CoilAir transitioned from 6 to 7.4 inches of travel, thanks to a secondary "magic" link. For 2010, Kona has refined the system and spread the technology to more of the lineup. The revamped CoilAir has shed more than a pound, and travel now floats between 5 and 7.7 inches. The all-new Cadabra platform, meanwhile, has a travel range of 4 to 6.4 inches, and easily builds up to a sub-30-pound trail bike.
Brian Berthold has worked as a suspension engineer in a variety of sports-from motocross to Formula One. As the owner of Therapy Components, he's made floating brake-arm kits for mountain bikes for over a decade, and he has been developing frames with Kona for the past three years.
Is it hard to get people to believe in Magic? At first, yes. We were not only introducing a totally new concept-a bizarre concept-but also, it's not an extension of a known theme, like a VPP or something. Some feared it was too complicated, and wouldn't hold up, but [test rider] Joe Schwartz, he travels around the world for Kona. I can't remember how many vertical feet he put on his bike, but his Coil-Air is the most horsewhipped frame around, and those extra pivots didn't
seem to be a problem for him. The Magic Link bikes this year get a radical change-why? I learned a lot more about working with Kona's manufacturing capabilities. The rocker pivot is now forward of the seat tube, so in order to feed the stresses properly, we made this one-piece forging that has to be solid where the rocker link goes through, but then morph into this sheet-metal-thin shell. It's like a molded or cast piece, but it's forged, so it's incredibly light. And it makes for a much better-looking frame. Then we took the new downtube from the Cadabra and beefed it up to CoilAir standards. Even though every piece on the CoilAir is thicker, it's based on the same thing. Why bring the Magic Link to shorter-travel bikes? Many people, myself included, wanted a bike that did everything the first bike did, but didn't want to lug that frame around because they weren't jumping off houses. This thing feels like an XC bike. When you're riding it on level ground, it feels snappy, sprinty. It feels like it would be harsh, but then you just start clobbering stuff with it. How does the Magic Link system work on the Cadabra?
When the Magic Link is fully active, the bike has 6.4 inches of travel. But it's based off of a 4-inch-travel frame. Because I'm only getting 4 inches of original travel, I need a shorter shock and a shorter rocker to drive it. Now I'm saving weight. That's a 1.5-inch-stroke air shock for a 2.7- to 2.8-to-1 motion ratio. But we're getting nearly 6.5 inches of travel. No one else on the planet will get that much out of a 1.5-inch-stroke shock.
28 April - Body Torque wants you to know about their custom-designed MTB gear!
"You're all living on the edge, pushing to your limits and exploring the unknown. But no cliché is ever going to sum up you and your team, so you don't want to look like one either. While you know how to burn up the single track, we know how to make you look like the gun team you are. Put eight or ten heads together, brainstorm some ideas and drop us a line. Our designers will get their creative juices flowing and you'll end up with the best looking kit this side of the black diamonds. When your legs are screaming and batteries fading, your Custom designed Body Torque team kit will still be going strong." Click here to go to their homepage.
6 April - The first 50% of Solo 24-Hour riders in the Kona Dirty Weekend earn qualification into the 2010 World Solo 24-Hour Championships. If fewer than 20 men or 10 women compete, then the first 10 men and first 5 women will qualify automatically.
31 March - Andrew Bell (KONA) will be riding our Kona Dirty Weekend. Check out his blog at http://andy-bell.blogspot.com
24 March - Dave, our in-house MTB fanatic, tried and tested the Cudlee Creek track and logged it on bikemap.net. Go to route map to check it out.
22 March - Categories are now announced! You can find it under the "About the ride" tab...
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