Originally Posted by
Russ Roth
FYI, just got one and having issues with the fork. There isn't any shaping on the inner leg for the rotor, so clearance is super tight. Safety-wise, there needs to be a few mm and there isn't. I suspect that a wavy rotor would actually touch, an out-of-true one definately would. Looks like a design/production flaw to me. I stole the Kona P2 from another of my bikes for now.
That being said, it's looking like a perfect 650b fixed gear machine. I started out with some 650bx38, planning to run fenders and have a nice high bb. Just for fun, I installed some light 2.0 crosscountry tires and it looks awesome. tire clearance is a solid 4-5mm with the wheel in the middle.of the dropouts.
Oh yeah, at least on the new black ones the seatstay bridge isn't drilled. It's now a simple tube instead of the little cast number on the silver ones. Probably welded higher too.