As y’all probably know by now we’re happily celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Kona Honky Tonk. And part of that celebration was hosting a social media photo contest for folks to submit pics of Honky Tonks worldwide. Up for grabs are some new Sellwood Cycle Cycling Caps for the Runners Up, a Stumptown Coffee Roasters prize pile for second place, and a 2016 Kona Honky Tonk for 1st place!

Well the photos are in and the votes have been counted. Photos were judged on creativity, content, and “Tonkiness”. A huge thank you to The Kona Bicycle Company, and t0 Stumptown Coffee Roasters for donating prizes to our contest!

Aaaaaaand now we’re pleased to announce the winners:

We had a three-way tie for Runner-Up

Runner Up #1: Johnlimjap

Runner Up #2: ali_aht1

After sighting a large tree frog in the Clatsop forest the journey has progressed. Now…a baby unicorn atop Astoria’s Coxcomb Hill (bridge, jetty & Pacific Ocean can be seen behind). Wish us well, there are many adventures ahead!

Runner Up #3: Gary Johnson

The Honky Tonk thought we were just going on a walk over our favorite Portland bridge, but then I popped the question… It said yes!

2nd Place: velokitten

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And for 1st place we had a TIE!

The best way we could figure to settle it was by giving away TWO 2016 Kona Honky Tonks! Congrats to both for posting some equally epic photos!

1st Place 1 of 2: terashred

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1st Place 2 of 2: stablermartin

A huge thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate 10 Years of the Kona Honky Tonk by submitting a photo. We love each and every one of you!

: qrohlf – this thing has been my primary form of transportation for over 4 years, but I’ve never gone bike camping on it before this summer. Photo taken just a few miles before a hair-raising gravel/mud descent with 28c slicks on abandoned logging roads. Truly a go-anywhere, do-anything bike!

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: joe.t.martin – Portland International Raceway – Posting this to help celebrate#10YearsOfTonk. This shot from 2010 at PIR on a custom painted 2009 Honkey Tonk, my roommate picked up from@sellwoodcycle I raced this bike for a bit while my other bike was in repair. I love this shot because it’s from an attack on the main field, during the hot lap, where I stole the points. Pretty sure I’ve never pulled that off again. Photo by Mark Blackwelder

: terashred – White River Wildlife Refuge – This one had ksyriums and 8speed RSX.

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: Peter M. Jennings – Colorado

: thefischermen – austin, texas – She’s my Pride and Joy!@sellwoodcycle thanks for the build inspiration!

: wicknasty – Tunitas Creek – Riding proper road bikes on proper roads today. It was real nice.

: ordinaryorange – Pt. Reyes, California – Here’s a pic of my Honky Tonk at the end of the road at Pt. Reyes. This was taken almost 3 years ago on a ride out of San Franciso. The only time I’ve seen whales while riding. A memorable one for sure. Thanks for a great bike.

: Maggie Creviston – Yellowstone!!!

: bwherley

: bwherley – I started to walk to the store for my usual lunch walk. It occured to me how nice it is outside and the fact that I was walking began to upset me. Plans changed.

: ali_aht1 – Day 7 of Honky Tonk bike trip….ate a few wild mushrooms found in the wilds of the North Oregon coast Backwoods…

: kearnsbv – University of Kansas – Now here’s a good #tbt in honor of #10yearsoftonk ! Tour of Lawrence 2009. Getting after (and sort of failing if I recall) on a bike I very much miss. The first road bike is always a hard one to give up, but it got passed on to someone else who got a lot of good miles out of ‘er. Good times in Kansas either way!

: akihirokoba – Tokyo, Japan – Bike to camp！

: jimmy_13_fitness – Gloucestershire – Remembering last year and all the miles I put under the wheels of Sterling. 2000 miles from Istanbul back home and all the adventures on home soil!

: chuckycheeese – Brunswick

: HRcycles – I need new one

: velokitten – House call! The man behind the bike.

: qrohlf – Donut day at the @ridewithgps office with the ever-versatile Tonk.

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: anton_yrin – Moscow, Russia – Searching for best veloride across the neghborhood.

: jonathandonehower – Biking in the Applegate Valley

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: jbucky1 – Hey solo pack light, travel far adventure featuring my trusty apidura pack

: jbucky1 – Im getting excited for winter

: terashred – Tualatin Mountains – With fenders. Originally captioned ” ‘road’ ride. Pretty standard, really”

: akihirokoba – Tokyo, Japan – rainy day in japan

: seenbabs – Corvallis, OR – I’ll be damned if I need more Tonkin paraphernalia. So, dear baby jesus if I win. As you can see this ain’t no Honky Tonk. Think pre-Honky Inc. Several slippery crafty hands have blessed this Tonkin 2.0 upgrade. Ira Ryan shonkied-it-up by welding disc tabs. None other than David Feldman rebirthed it by replacing the broken dropout after boob-sploding it. And then, Matt Mahoney resurrected it with another new dropout repair – it be wrong to resist the less traveled route. Special editions: down tube shifters, custom rattle can on fork/rear triangle, and grips that say BOOBS (courteous of Wicknasty and Demo-Dave). Shonky Tonk! Making Americans free again! Where am I goin’? I don’t know. When will I be there? I ain’t certain. All I know is I’m on my way.

: joe_earnest – The roads of Mount Diablo are calling me.. and my Jake the Snake hates wearing slicks. Photo credit goes to Pedal room user cinemafia, since I don’t have a Tonk of my own.

: peterkoonce – Portland, OR – throwback photo posted in honor of the @Sellwoodcycle#10YearsofTonk contest! This photo was from @cycleoregon 2007 when my wife & I first developed a love of cycling together. I was riding a “classic” Trek Portland that was/is a solid bike. The only thing I would dare replace that reliable steed with is a@konabikes Honky Tonk!

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – Tons of light pouring in on this roadside photo! 65 and sunny man…..can you beat it?

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: ordinaryorange – Riding the gravel roads around Lake Del Valle.

: ordinaryorange – So many autumns

: Daniel Burton – Bend, OR – Trophy Bike.

: thephillygoat – Brooklyn, NYC – Pin on a number in Brooklyn, NY?…..why not?! This bike can do anything! By the way, do you know how early you need to be up to get this kind of space on the Brooklyn Bridge? Pretty early.

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – How do you meet a sweet girl and make her stay? 1. Show her your awesome bikes 2. Show her your awesome routes 3. Let her ride your awesome Kona 4. Make sure she knows that hers is only the second butt to ever touch it hahah.

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – And when you’re sick of all of that city riding it’s time to hop a train and head to the countryside. I dish it out to that bike on a daily basis and it never fails me. Lock it up, cram it into a train seat, curbs, potholes…..I secretly think it loves the adventure/abuse.

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – How do you see everything Philly has to offer in 24 Hours?…..Take your Honky Tonk! My secret weapon when it comes to exploring/learning a new city. This bike helped me find apartments, bars, parks, food, music…..

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – Kona has been my everything (literally everything) bike for a long time. It has literally been at my side in all my adventures for years now. Everything I have needed it to do it has done without hesitation. I swear that bike smiles every time I drag it out of the apartment. I did my best to show you guys some of the real life versatility I get from my Kona. Which is what I feel the Honky Tonk is all about. A bike that isn’t afraid of spontaneity. That doesn’t say no. Now, and most importantly, it has given my girlfriend the ability to come with me on rides and adventures. We’ve got an awesome, active, hobby to bond over. We crush the miles and beers all summer long and have a great time doing it. This photo is of us standing in the rain waiting for the Five Boro Bike Tour to start. Amanda’s riding my trusty #HonkyTonk . Nothing would make 2017 better than for Amanda to start making memories on a new Kona. One that fits, one that she can name, one that she can call her own.

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – Babs never goes to work without her name tag! In a world full of bikes she finds a way to stand out!

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: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – So Amanda is getting super pumped about this photo contest! She’s pulling out all the stops! This is a photo of her escaping philly one Sunday morning. When I asked her where I was for this ride she got real quiet and said, “Remember that one Sunday morning you had to go to work…..”. Haha she’s been sneaking rides on my kona!

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – What do you do when you see a gravel road…. take it! I took this photo on one of my favorite gravel roads about 45 Minutes west of Philadelphia. I’m lucky enough to have access to the rough and the smooth stuff. Even luckier to be able to enjoy both on the same bike!

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: jimmy_13_fitness – Danube River – That time when I had to walk through the Danube with my Honky Tonk

: thefischermen – TUNNEL VISION: noun; Definition : a tendency to think only about one thing and to ignore everything else. CAUTION-likely caused by owning one of a kind Kona bicycles. Ride at your own risk.

: jschultz – My tireless Tonk has been my winter workhorse since March 2008, making chip seal roads smooth and soaked streets dry all over Portland, finding beauty in unexpected places–even under freeways!

: pdxbean – My 2009 @konabikes Honky Tonk purchased from the designer’s#bikeshop @sellwoodcycle in Portland, Oregon. I love the color of this bike! This is an old but favorite photo I took at Mount Tabor.

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – A great, unexpected side effect of this contest is the amount of fun Amanda and I are having digging through photos, taking new ones, cropping, filtering, and posting. With winter practically here (at least the dark-at-five-pm part) riding has been a little sporadic. This is most definitely providing us with our bicycle fix!

: thephillygoat – Philadelphia, PA – Last one! This is the final picture that made the cut and I love it. It perfectly captures what riding during the fall in Eastern PA is like. Crisp, bright, and colorful.

: johnlimjap – Top of the Silicon Valley!

: jbucky1 – This guy has got over 40,000 miles on him. Dedacciai tubing, steel fork and frame. Dura Ace 10spd down shifters, awesome ride, full fenders. Buttery ride. Only thing I could wish for would be disc brakes, but back then discbrakes were not cool, new paint job by vanilla paint