[HardtailHack]

[I don't want one but I'd like to see some built up and the site stated they will be avaliable in June, does anyone know when they will be released?

It seems they still have 09 frames that stragely cost more than I paid for mine in 09 and the Aussie dolar was way down on the US then, I thought they sold all the old stock off cheap ages ago.


EDIT- So Mike at Atomlab seems to have nothing to do with Corsair anymore you have to contact this chick
So DerHawk owns Atomlab and Corsair?
http://www.derhawk.com.tw/

 

[Bikael Molton]

ha ha

 

[Speedgoat9]

*sigh* It seems like Corsair is Evil minus the cracked frames. The company had so much promise. Pablo's designs were unique and out of the box and they seemed to have a lot on interest. Then there were a bunch of ownership/buisness problems leading to Pablo leaving and the dumbing down of the designs. Now it seems they can't get anything going. I am LOVING my Crown DH and hope that Pablo's designs resurface somewhere in the future....

 

[Sandwich]

Wasn't he involved in another company? Like transition or something? I could have sworn I remembered hearing about Pablo having done work for some other popular design.

 

[Speedgoat9]

black market...he designed the roam and killswitch. I guess i should say i can't wait for his DH designs to resurface

 

[scrublover]

*sigh* It seems like Corsair is Evil minus the cracked frames.

I don't know about that...

Broke my Marque frame on the second ride. Off a smooth landing little 3' drop. Grumblingly paid for the new front triangle, after being told it was likely my fault for not ensuring the bolts around the BB clamshell assembly were tight enough. I'd not messed with them at all, actually...

Couple months later, main pivot bolt broke. A funky sized/shaped/threaded huge m15 alu thing. Nothing I was able to find any sort of off the shelf bit for. Like pulling teeth from a chicken, trying to get a new one from them. They'd already been having some bad issues with their pulley design exploding peoples drivetrains. A bad sign when you discover the former owner of the company has sold it off like a hot potato. HAB actually fabricated me a new, steel one.

A frame with the riding intent of that bike, that weighs 9# for just the frame ought not be breaking under my skinny, smooth riding, non-hucking carcass.

Once it was all together again, sold it off, quickly. Pedaled freakin' awesome, rode beautifully, but was a lemon in the long run. Great suspension design with really ****ty implementation, and louse CS.

 

[Speedgoat9]

damn,

I guess since i own the crown, wich seems to generally have no problems that i've heard of, i forgot all of the problems people were having with the maelstrom/marque. I guess they ARE a pretty good mirror of evil, lol. It is sad though, with proper buisness practices and how well the corsairs rode, they could have made improvements and had a killer 2nd gerneration fleet.

 

[Sandwich]

That pretty much sums up my understanding of corsair. The parallels between corsair and evil are actually pretty strong. Loads of hype, loads of disappointed customers, lack of strong CS and replacement policy. The first announcement of Corsair's lineup was in like 2006, their first bike shipped in like 2009.

 

[HardtailHack]

Ha ha I got a bolt and idler replaced, I think I may have even recieved a few replacement bearings but that when Doug Stuart(sp?) was still there and he removed a bolt from a frame for me and shipped it to Oz.

However when I said my frame had a small crack in it it was nearly six months til I got the new front triangle, that was when it was all changing hands though.

My Corsair is just about built up again, I'm thinking of putting a shorter shock in it and having it as a slack 6" weapon, after I replace all the pivot bolts with steel ones of course.

 

[IH8Rice]

im more upset to see Atomlab is now owned by this company.
Mike @ Atomloab hooked me up with two rebuild kits for my old Aircorp pedals a few months ago after digging through old parts bins to find them

 

[Sandwich]

his facebook still lists him as "owner" of atomlab. I agree, I recieved some great service from him and it would be sad to see the company go full taiwan.

 

[Speedgoat9]

just did some quick research on their facebook page, it seems they are no longer a part of atomlab and now a taiwanese company named Derhawk owns them??

edit: upon further review it seems atomlab is a part of derhawk

 

[roel_koel]

just did some quick research on their facebook page, it seems they are no longer a part of atomlab and now a taiwanese company named Derhawk owns them??

edit: upon further review it seems atomlab is a part of derhawk

its all going that way...Uncle Wing-Wong will soon own all of their asses

 

[atomic97]

This is Mike from Atomlab. Derhawk was my old trading company. We have parted ways. I still own Atomlab, but when we parted ways, Corsair went with Derhawk. Sad but true.

 

[PepperJester]

Mike,

With Derhawk now taking over Corsair, do you guys at Atomlab still have any replacement parts for existing Corsair riders? I sure know my Maelstrom could use a new idler wheel as my current one (that worked great by the way!) has been chewed pretty much right down to nothingness over the last two years of riding.

 

[atomic97]

I sent the replacement parts to Derhawk, but I do have a few items and I can help you out with a pulley. They newest one is amazing and problem free. You can e-mail me at mike@atomlab.com

 

[frorider]

They newest one is amazing and problem free.

we've been hearing that about every version of the pulley.

maybe it's like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

 

[HardtailHack]

I just shot an email off, I'm still running the original idler and I din't think the drivetrain vibrations were bad when that was my only bike but after jumping off my current DH bike and pedalling the Corsair the vibrations and noise is quite odd.

Any idea if Derhawk will be selling the solid pivoot bolts too?

If Derhawk have the design rights(wrong terminology?) to the Dominion it would be awesome if that made it to production, it looked like a really nice design.

 

[Speedgoat9]

I could be very very wrong, but i think the dominion design, along with all the other orig. designs went with Pablo, hence everything new going to a SINGLE PIVOT, single pivot, if that makes sense.

 

[ucsbMTBmember]

shameless plug. spam alert

2010 Corsair Crown needs to go any offer considered - Pinkbike.com

 

[HardtailHack]

Damn I thought it was for the Company.