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Broken kona Operator..anyone else????

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This was a 2012 operator ridden by a smooth expert rider weighing approx. 140 pounds. yikes !!!!
 

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hopefully they are better then my chainstay replacement...what a fricken pain and costly too....another rider just gave a way his too...because you could buy a complete kona at wheelworld at a cheaper place then a replacement
 
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Looks like the same area of the frame where all those intenses were breaking a couple years back.
You have a very rigid junction of tubes as the tt dt and ht are all welded together. There is stress on the tubes just before they all come together as they are more flexable than the joined tubes.
Not that it should break, but it is easy to see why it could break there.
 
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