Corsair Sykler, er fundert i den maritime verden. Nærmere bestemt i et historisk perspektiv. Corsair navnet har sin opprinnelse i piratvirksomhet langs kystene av Nord-Afrika og Sør-Europa. Derav har også navnene på sykkelmodellene sin opprinnelse. Mahlstrom har et maritimt klang, dog Marque refferer til det vi på Norsk kjenner som Kaperskip eller Kaperbrev (statsautoriserte pirater).

Fra Wikipedia om Corsairs:

The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman corsairs or Barbary Pirates, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa from the time of the Crusades (11th century) until the early 19th century. Based in North African ports such as Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé, and other ports in Morocco, they sailed mainly along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast.^[1] Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, and they primarily commandeered western European ships in the western Mediterranean Sea. In addition, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns, to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in places such as Algeria and Morocco.^[2][3]

Pirates destroyed thousands of French, Spanish, and English ships, and long stretches of coast in Spain and Italy were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants, discouraging settlement until the 19th century. From the 16th to 19th century, pirates captured an estimated 800,000 to 1.25 million Europeans as slaves,^[4] mainly from seaside villages in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, but also from France, England, the Netherlands, Ireland and as far away as Iceland and North America. The most famous corsairs were the brothers Hayreddin Barbarossa ("Redbeard") and Oruç Reis, who took control of Algiers in the early 16th century, beginning four hundred years of Ottoman Empire presence in North Africa and establishing a centre of Mediterranean piracy.

Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha.

Following the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, as well as the involvement of the United States Navy in the First and Second Barbary Wars (1801–1805, 1815), European powers agreed upon the need to suppress the Barbary pirates and the effectiveness of the corsairs declined, although European powers continued to pay tribute for protection against attacks.

Modellene

Som vi var inne på, er grunnideén til merket Corsair; maritimitet og mystikk. Dette er et ellement som går igjen i sykkelmodellene også. Crown, König og Ducat har alle fått navn fra tidsriktige mynter fra Kapertiden.

Dessverre har vi enda ikke sett sykkelen Kroner, men Crown er farlig nærme:)

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