BICYCLE ENQUIRER (11): Cascade Components Slides Into Kona

Bicycle Gear News That Could Be True But Probably Isn’t.


Breaking Bicycle Enquirer News: Cascade Components – imagined, designed, made, tested, hawked, and marketed in the PNW – has delivered on their ethos yet again. The typical, for the bike industry, by riders, for riders company, has engineered a way to bring a “more confidence-inspiring and comfortable ride that lets you push harder” to untold thousands, even tens of thousands, of Kona Bicycles.   

With this latest kit, “no stone [was] left unturned” as they went the extra mile in delivering extraordinary performance – no holds barred. You’re an order away from a bike that “is able to maintain traction much better than before, while also remaining more composed through large impacts.” 

Maxed out the wheelbase on your 2004+ Kona Unit, Big Unit, Honzo ST, Cowan DS, Shonky, Raijin, Explosif, Humuhumu, Private Jake, Woo, Wozo, Big Honzo ST, and who knows how many bikes I missed? The Cascade +10mm, +20mm, and +30mm dropouts "will improve the feel substantially."
Maxed out the wheelbase on your 2004+ Kona Unit, Big Unit, Honzo ST, Cowan DS, Shonky, Raijin, Explosif, Humuhumu, Private Jake, Woo, Wozo, Big Honzo ST, and who knows how many bikes I missed? The Cascade +10mm, +20mm, and +30mm dropouts “will improve the feel substantially.”

Yes, as wheelbase usurps head tube angle and Reach as the number one numeral of concern, Cascade brings their eternal “[focus] on bringing our customers the most value possible” to over a decade’s worth of Kona geometry charts. Three options exist to add a total of +10mm, +20mm, or +30mm to rear-centre length to your favourite rig while maintaining the existing range of the slider system. They even work with your current hardware and axle.

Cascade’s fresh sliding drop-outs are CNC’d from 6061-T6 in the USA, and are available anodized in black, silver, or orange for $395 USD for a pair. They will take your current Kona and “improve the feel substantially and you may no longer feel like replacing [it for a frame with a] shock as well.” 

For more information, check out Cascade’s Kona upgrades.

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