Shawn / Astrix frames

[turbo]

From the Astrix Sports website (www.astrixsports.com) :

Astrix Sports' passion for their design has been recognized by other companys around the world. Astrix has licensed and developed custom frames based on their proven suspension design to some of these companys. The following companys currently use frames developed by Astrix:

Bergamont - Germany - Evolve Team DH
Fever - Italy - Bandit / One 80
Kuwahara - Japan - Delta R 4X
Kuwahara - Finland - Dirt Spirit Dirt Jump
Oxford - Chile - Team OX-6 DH
Planet X - Worldwide - Growler / Storker
Shawn - Philippines - Downhill / Freeride / Cross Country Suspension and Hardtail Models
Solid Bikes - Germany - Mission 9 / Liberator / Index / Harlem

Meaning the Shawn frames are actually licensed by Astrix, and not rip-offs as was the opinion of some people. Interesting...

[Dragunov]

its a good frame though but its on the heavy side but then, who cares about weight when ur doing freeride hehe, their hardtail are light, but it design are like the "gts" frames, they should have improved the design

[shuzzs]

Astrix Sports frames are being manufactured by Pacific-Cycles (this is with the 's'. Pacific-Cycle is the owner of GT, Schwinn, Mongoose, etc.). If saw from their website (Taiwan), they are manufacturing motolink suspension frames (I guess with license from Astrix) as an OEM. This means that companies who are interested in their frames, can have their names printed on them.

This is what Hans-Gee LBS has done (I might be wrong here... although I got this information from reputable sources).
So came the Shawn cycles.

[king]

if the shawn h2&3 are branded Motolink (Astrix, etc) frames, any idea what their hardtail is based on?

[mountguitars]

so far, im happy with my shawn 2. except for the cable routing though. i wish they went for the top pull FD. bottom pull sucks. when it rains, or whenever there's water, it gets inside them cables. hopefully installing a flack jacket will somewhat fix this problem.

[aprilryan]

hey!

any feedback from h1 owners?

[Great Teacher Ulysses]

How come many owner of shawn h3's are selling thier frames, why? check the buy and sell section wholebikes and frames and you'll see a lot. not including other h3 frames not posted here in PinoyMTBiker.... why?

[XP]

yup why ! h3?

[the D.]

co'z some bike shop sell them cheap
values are dropping.

and some riders sell their bullits and Konas
same price as the shawns.

[the D.]

aprilryan said:

hey!

any feedback from h1 owners?

Great geometry
light
and durable
made of
easton tubing.