Atomlab Corsair Konig 7.8
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- Tylers-Content
- Category
- Parts - Other
- Date Posted
- Sep 22, 2012 at 19:35Sep 22, 2012
- Location
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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Trail
- Interbike 2012
- Riders
- None
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- Photo Size:
- Camera
- Canon PowerShot G11
- Lens
- 6.1-30.5 mm
- Shutter Speed
- 1/60
- Aperture
- 2.8
- Focal Length
- 6.8 mm
- ISO Speed
- 320
- Date
- 2012:09:21
- Time
- 13:56:40
22 Comments
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trekrider4mgm
(Sep 23, 2012 at 10:50)
Holy shit, its the diamondback prototype!
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Crummy thing is Corsair now seems to be comletely in a state of time-freeze... Their web-site's still showing "mock-up" drawings of "futre bikes" from 2 years aro and the Koenig 7.8 doesn't exist acording to their web-site... Same too sause their bikes looked to be SICK... I hope they're doing well and gonna re-surface with some sweet new bikes, but now... well it seems like they;re gone the way of Evil bikes right now...
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what the f*ck! i thought they still used their ultra-stout multi link suspension? and i was gonna buy one. but not anymore.......
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Oh so is Corsair now Hyper??? What I mean is did Corsair get absorbed into Hyper to ake their MTB line??? That would be great to see their bikes be available again... As I said above, I was pretty mummeb to have not heard a word about Corsair in forever...
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N/M, see now that Corsair has just been behind on it's website... Glad to see they;re moving forward, always liked their bikes aye...
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Not what they used to be. Single pivot is single pivot, they had a lot better suspension design goin for them
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I agree with you, I've got one. The Konig's four bar linkage behaves like a single pivot anyway, just with more stiffness.
According to Corsair's website, the frames Cam Zink has been riding this year are the new Corsairs like this one, rather than the old ones with the four bar linkage. I noticed at Chatel he looked to be riding the Dominion with downtube shock mount, and at Les2Alpes he was riding what looked like the old Konig. Didn't see stills though, only video. Maybe he was riding the Konig 7-8 at Chatel and the Konig 4-6 at Les2Alpes.
Even though the design has got a lot simpler, it still looks good to me. Factor in that the old Konig included a headset and shock along with that 4 bar linkage, I think the price of this new one has to be a measure lower than the Konig of old (if they are going to sell it without headset and shock as they originally stated).
According to Corsair's website, the frames Cam Zink has been riding this year are the new Corsairs like this one, rather than the old ones with the four bar linkage. I noticed at Chatel he looked to be riding the Dominion with downtube shock mount, and at Les2Alpes he was riding what looked like the old Konig. Didn't see stills though, only video. Maybe he was riding the Konig 7-8 at Chatel and the Konig 4-6 at Les2Alpes.
Even though the design has got a lot simpler, it still looks good to me. Factor in that the old Konig included a headset and shock along with that 4 bar linkage, I think the price of this new one has to be a measure lower than the Konig of old (if they are going to sell it without headset and shock as they originally stated).