What's the better frame Marin Pailsades Trail or Nail Trail?

russboy
russboy Posts: 436
edited January 2011 in MTB buying advice
I ask as my 2009 Palisades Trail frame is being replaced under warranty & they couldn't give me the same frame. Instead ive been given a Nail Trail, unsure of the year.

All I know is my frame has changed from White to black!!

Will put a couple of pics up when I pick it up, they're building it a the mo

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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    arent they the same frame, just named differently when built up with different spec from the factory?
    Harry von Big Sticks
  • aaronmroach
    aaronmroach Posts: 341
    http://www.marin.co.uk/2011/bikepage.php?ModNo=11NT

    http://www.marin.co.uk/2011/bikepage.php?ModNo=11PT

    As above they are the same frame just the spec and colour were different!! Bot are 6061 Aluminum, Triple Butted Hydro-Edge Top and Down Tubes, Double Butted E4 Anti-Flex Seat and Chain Stays
  • russboy
    russboy Posts: 436
    aaronmroach wrote:
    http://www.marin.co.uk/2011/bikepage.php?ModNo=11NT

    http://www.marin.co.uk/2011/bikepage.php?ModNo=11PT

    As above they are the same frame just the spec and colour were different!! Bot are 6061 Aluminum, Triple Butted Hydro-Edge Top and Down Tubes, Double Butted E4 Anti-Flex Seat and Chain Stays

    Its definitely a different frame as my top tube used to be slightly triangular, where as now it’s quite square

    Old:

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    New:

    180579_10150394855520500_691105499_16866283_5554734_n.jpg

    It may be because the new frame is newer than the old 2009 one

    Anyway I asked them to fit a new rear cassette, chain & front mech, that lot cost £71 after discount as i’d bought the bike there. Plus they transferred everything over, now got new bearings, cables & it rides so smoothly
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    palisades and nail trail are part of the same series of bikes, the name changes as the spec changes but the frame is the same. the reason yours looks different is because you have the 2011 version of that mountain hardtail in the hydro ht range.
    Harry von Big Sticks
  • russboy
    russboy Posts: 436
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    palisades and nail trail are part of the same series of bikes, the name changes as the spec changes but the frame is the same. the reason yours looks different is because you have the 2011 version of that mountain hardtail in the hydro ht range.

    Thats cool, very happy with it. I would have been happy with a new frame, but a new frame of the same spec but the newest model even more happy with

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