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The Big Show in Taipei
March 17, 2008Published by summerofshredEver wonder where kickstands come from, or what company REALLY makes your favorite product? Most of the parts on your bike were most likely manufactured in Taiwan, and the root of the manufacturing and everything associated to it comes out of the Taipei Bike Show in Taiwan. Every year, thousands of companies, manufacturers and product managers flock to this show to see what new technology is coming out, and OE suppliers are busy organizing what bikes you're going to be riding next year.
Between Eurobike, Interbike and the Taipei show, Taipei is a lot more manufacturing-based. Based on my experience with all three trade shows, both Eurobike and Interbike are much more marketing-based, with mechanics and bicycle enthusiasts coming in to meet their favorite pros and ogle over the bikes that will be released in a few short months. It's common to see almost every pro rider in the world wandering around the shows. Taipei is much more about the business of producing bikes, and you won't catch anyone signing autographs in a booth. That being said, there is a lot of cool new stuff to see in Taipei. What you see at the other two trade shows are concepts and new bikes that are ready for release. In Taipei, you can see stuff that might not actually hit the market for another year or two. You'll see a concept or new product from a company which catches the attention of product managers, but it may take a while to implement that concept into a design or properly test it with a quick turnaround. Taipei is a glimpse into the future! I ran into a lot of familiar faces in Taiwan, one of which was Doug Stuart from Corsair Bikes. He was working on some upcoming stuff for Corsair and was kind enough to reveal the new Corsair Crown DH bike. I believe this is the first Crown frame in production, so these may be the first actual photos of the bike. It wasn't totally built up yet, but that didn't stop me from drooling all over it. The attention to detail on this bike is mental.     Doug also had the Konig (slopestyle) and Maelstrom (Freeride) bikes on hand, so I snapped a few pics of those as well. Those two bikes were featured at Interbike this past year, but they have been refined and Doug was showing them in their complete version. I'm not sure what the prices are on any of these bikes, but this is what will show up on the bike shop floors very soon.   RST also came out swinging with some fresh product that turned a lot of heads at the Taipei show. RST has been building their higher end products over the past few years, and this year they revealed the F1RST Platinum which is a 1.45kg (3.1 lbs) XC fork. They also showed a new rear shock, a direct-mount crown for the R-1 downhill fork, and some other revisions to existing product.      SRAM also had some new product on display, particularly the "Boobars" and the next color for the Argyles...purple.   All in all, the Taipei show was worth the visit. It was interesting to see the other side of the bike industry and more of the behind-the- scenes product stuff. -Aaron and the Summer of Shred. |
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dirtjumper105
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Those argyles are sweet
They look better in white but still look good.
ye i agree, i like the mint ones the best tho
In all seriousness.
I want some purple for my bike.
I want some purple for my bike.
That purple looks like cartoon candy. I want mad max brake dust black...
i cant wait until trendsters stop buying colored parts...
funny thing is... well when i read your comment i thought 'hmm lets just have a look at what this guy has on his bikes' i look in your photos and there i find a color coordinated dirt jump bike, all brown with white cranks and bars.
ya everything has a colour so no matter what you do your gonna end up buying a coloured part.....
how is buying colored parts a trend set. its just another way of personalizing your bike
would you rather people buy un-colored parts?
every single part on a bike is colored, so why not buy a part in a color that you like?
every single part on a bike is colored, so why not buy a part in a color that you like?
I'm enjoying that they're doing full colorways of stems, pedals, forks, etc. It's like Deity Deluxe!
ya i really like the purple parts
I absolutely hate deity components. Ugly, overpriced, everyone thinks they are the shit for no reason at all... like hummer h2s. Just awful.
However i love that purple, and its really close to the purple i see other companies using, 3 cheers for colorful bikes!
If you want to follow bad trends just run deity parts, run to long of a fork, and then to worsen it run 3" riser bars no less than 30" wide, then make your cables to damn long and use 8000 cable ties. Perfect!
However i love that purple, and its really close to the purple i see other companies using, 3 cheers for colorful bikes!
If you want to follow bad trends just run deity parts, run to long of a fork, and then to worsen it run 3" riser bars no less than 30" wide, then make your cables to damn long and use 8000 cable ties. Perfect!
Ahhhhh RST run!!!!!
yeah i like the purple parts also!!
and it is cool that they have a few part in the same color, so you don't have to struggle anymore if the colors from different parts match!!
keep going like this Sram!!
and it is cool that they have a few part in the same color, so you don't have to struggle anymore if the colors from different parts match!!
keep going like this Sram!!
i want the purple fork and stem so sick!
FINALLY! The purple ano parts I kept from the mid 90's can be reinstalled on my bike! Yay! *sarcasm*
yeah remember those stuff . Kids arround woukld be crazy to see the colors ofe the bike in mid 90's
i like purple..but that shade..their something about it that i don;t like.
Any pic of the new RST SpaceJump series?
my first dualie was a mongoose from costco, it had a RST 281 on it I cracked the fork in under two weeks, man I was really unhappy. but i'd love to give RST another go
yeah those purple parts have smthing wrong, i think theyre too glosy
just wondering... how much rear travel would those first 2 bikes have ( the silver + orange ones) because TO ME with the frame designe and the position of the rear shock + linkage, it doesnt seem like it would beable to get very much travel for them being a freeride/Downhill oriented bike
I think the orange one is 5 or 6 and its designed to be a slopstyle/new school bike park rig. the first raw frame is a DH race bike and i think it has 200 somthing travel
check out there site to be sure
http://www.corsairbikes.com/
check out there site to be sure
http://www.corsairbikes.com/
Hi, doug from Corsair Bikes here. Konig which is the orange slopestyle bike has 5" of travel. Maelstrom which is the grey colored freeride bike has 7" of travel (2:1 stroke ratio) and the Crown (DH bike w/ raw finish) has 7.5 to 9.5" of travel depending on the set-up you choose to use. Our website has some nice animations of how our suspension systems work. Also for more photos you can check - www.flickr.com/photos/corsairbikes/sets/
2:1 ratio? F Ya! Bikes look awesome man!
yea sorry for every one that read my comment. i was just looking at the picture without really looking into the design and withought actually seeing how much the company has out into there product... and on that note the bike is soo sick, i LOVE the double rear shock... one for normal ripping... and transfers onto the second one to get the most possible travel for Hucking it huge!!!
the purple is cool b ut they should of made them red insead, more bike go with the colour red rather than purple, but when your a multi-billion company you can do anything you want and people will still buy ur product
yeah red would be better
Oiy, here we go again... another must have color on your bike...
the purple color looks killer =) but i love white more, to bad i have a black Lyrik ^^ I wish i would have the white one for my build.
check out my album for more pictures from the show
purple is dead. please spare the masses and stop making purple anything.
Sick at copying bmx companies and sucking in general
how much are the purple argyles? they are sweet.
Meh..that purple is so '93...find a nice emerald green to go with it and you are Scott Shmitt huckin 200 mm skiis off of a cliff in So Cal
The Corsair Frames are wicked though...oh sorry "awesome" dude...no "Gnarly" wait..."Sick"... yeah that's it! "Sick"
every thing is soooo dam nice 
does anybody know when the purple argyles will be released??
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