MY marin upgraded

SCO77YBOY

Hi There

My Marin

MARIN HYDRO EDGE FRAME
FULL XTR groupset
XTR trail brakes with 180 ROTORS
DMR V12 Magnesium pedals
MAVIC CROSSMAX wheels
FIZIK GOBI XM K:IUM SADDLE
FOX FLOAT 32 FORKS
ROCK SHOX REVERB SEATPOST
THOMPSON ELITE HANDLEBARS STEM
HOPE BOTTOM BRACKET AND HEADSET
CARBON MONKEYBARS
ODI TROY LEE LOCK OFFS
















HOPE YOU LIKE

THANK YOU

chrisjnr19

I muchly like!
Although a bit OTT on the XTR gear, if the money's there though...
Looks great.

Si1988

Lovely looking bike, got a lot of length in the steerer though. What size lizard skin is that you've got, need to pick one up for myself and that looks the right size, some places suggest one, others another.

lillywhite79

Thats bloody Gorgeous mate i like it a lot!

Can I ask you what Marin frame that is I cant make it the lettering on it, really like the colour (and all the xtr bling)

Sweet

ravey1981

Frame too small?

SCO77YBOY

The frames the right size , i,ve always had a 40mm stack but i was thinking of dropping it to 30mm.


thank you

ThePriory1978

I love orange. That is a real looker in my eyes.

Whats with the one red spoke on the Mavic rims? Not seen that before.

CitizenLee

A fine looking hard tail, great spec too!

How you finding the Rock Shox seat post?

SCO77YBOY

Hi There

Don't no what the score is with the red spoke .that,s how i bought them..as far as i know all the crossmax slr rims have them

SCO77YBOY

The rock shox seat post is awsome ,i was sick of catchin the seat (i wear baggys)

would recomend this post to anyone

Anonymous

Awesome machine, I very much like that

CitizenLee

SCO77YBOY wrote:

The rock shox seat post is awsome ,i was sick of catchin the seat (i wear baggys)

would recomend this post to anyone

Haha, baggys 4 life! :P

Do you think it could take the abuse that a FR / DH bike has to endure? I'm very tempted by a drop post but worry that I'll just ruin it.

Anonymous

CitizenLee, I run a joplin on my wolf ridge, which is used for all sorts of things, but when I intend to take the bike out for some properly mental stuff, I take it off, and put an old seatpost in.
I'm not sure how likely the joplin is of being damaged, but I don't want the expense of finding out!

It's usefulness on a Freeride rig would depend on whether or not you actually pedal it to go somewhere.
If I was doing an uplift day, or going to the alps on a DH holiday, for example, then I don't think I'd bother with the joplin. but when I need to ride 2,000 feet up to the top of the quarries before blasting down, it comes in handy!

CitizenLee

yeehaamcgee wrote:

CitizenLee, I run a joplin on my wolf ridge, which is used for all sorts of things, but when I intend to take the bike out for some properly mental stuff, I take it off, and put an old seatpost in.
I'm not sure how likely the joplin is of being damaged, but I don't want the expense of finding out!

It's usefulness on a Freeride rig would depend on whether or not you actually pedal it to go somewhere.
If I was doing an uplift day, or going to the alps on a DH holiday, for example, then I don't think I'd bother with the joplin. but when I need to ride 2,000 feet up to the top of the quarries before blasting down, it comes in handy!

No uplift services near me I'm afraid... gotta earn my turns and pedal or push up. So in that sense it would be great to pop it up for climbs and then slam it for decents.... but on the flip side I tend to ride my bike without much regard for it's well being so would need something solid that can take abuse. As you say, it would be an expensive experiment to find out how much they can actually take.

Anonymous

Erm, jsut to explain a bit - my "normal" seatpost is one that got bent, so I cut it down to make a stub for Dh riding. I can't use it normally, since it's now too short, so having it up to ride somewhere, then lowering it to hammer down isn't an option

Anonymous

CitizenLee wrote:

No uplift services near me I'm afraid... gotta earn my turns and pedal or push up. So in that sense it would be great to pop it up for climbs and then slam it for decents.... but on the flip side I tend to ride my bike without much regard for it's well being so would need something solid that can take abuse. As you say, it would be an expensive experiment to find out how much they can actually take.

Another thing to bear in mind, is that if you're just setting your saddle down for descending, then up to get back to the top, then a joplin or Reverb may not be as useful for you.
Mine gets used when trail riding, so if I hit a piece of sweet technical singletrack unexpectedly, rather than get off, or wish I'd left the saddle down, i just drop it on the fly.
If you're specifically riding DH, then chances are you know before hand that dropping the saddle is a good idea.

CitizenLee

Haha, I understood you mate

I ride up, down and all in between + I have to ride to the woods in the 1st place, so there would definitely be a use for having something I can change on the fly.

We should probably take this to a different thread to save hijacking this one...

Anonymous

Hmm, good point. I claim diplomatic immunity though, since the thread is called "my Marin", and i'm talking about "my Marin"
(although mine is nowhere near as nice!)