My Marin Mount Vision 2006

Paulfocus

DanDax1990 wrote:

You not bothering with new forks now mate?

Not at the moment since I fitted a harder coil spring they will do me. Plus I can't decide which forks to get as I'm restricted on the qr size and the head tube size. Don't want to pay a small fortune for them too lol

Paulfocus

Nothing much has changed with the old faithful apart from the winter mud guard is now on and ready for action





Got myself a camera too
Here are a couple of video's nothing special just messing about

http://youtu.be/GxY2CkHhUXM

http://youtu.be/nq16NM8TXrU

Paulfocus

Time for a long awaited for update:

Decided to do something a little different, going to wrap most if not all my bike in carbon fibre vinyl.
Already started on my guards:





Also bought myself some air forks finally. Not fit them yet but there a bargain for what I payed for them and with a 140mm travel should be a lot better then my rock shox's

ilovedirt

Should be nice those.

Out of interest, does that rear mud guard do anything aside from keeping the seat tube clean?...

Paulfocus

Hahaha ye it protects the rear shock abit apart from that probably nothing. I think it looks good too

Paulfocus

Abit of progress for the day.


Air bubble now gone!! Lol

Paulfocus

Forks fitted!!

Paulfocus

Couple of photos from the Evans cycles ride.

Paulfocus

New bars and stem from superstars.



And a ride out.

John Wh

Ha! My foot suffered a similar fate last Sunday. Wouldn't have minded, but the weather was lovely too. Really like the bike and what you have done so far.

I'm going to have to build a FS next as I've seen a few updates on various bikes

Paulfocus

Ordered some offset bushes, just a waiting game now.

Will put pics up when I get them. Hopefully will improve the handling abit more

Paulfocus

Little update:

My new offset bushes arrived the other day. So thought I would tackle fitting them tonight.
Really impressed with the quality for the price!

rockmonkeysc

Nice, well thought out build. Your original stem was impressively long, I remember when they were cool!
There's still a surprising amount of these old Mount Visions in regilar use, I guess they must be a good ride and durable.

Paulfocus

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Nice, well thought out build. Your original stem was impressively long, I remember when they were cool!
There's still a surprising amount of these old Mount Visions in regilar use, I guess they must be a good ride and durable.

She loves whatever I throw at her. I'm not the best on a bike, but I have got some balls to go flat out on downhill sections and she's not let me down yet apart from a trip down into a stream once at gisburn forest lol

Next on the list is a dropper post, floating discs then upgrade my rear chainset to 8 or 9 speed as since I put the dual crankset on its messed the ratio's up badly. So I'm hoping that will bring it back inline.

rockmonkeysc

Forget the floating rotors unless you're off to the alps. It takes a lot of heat before they really make sense.

Paulfocus

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Forget the floating rotors unless you're off to the alps. It takes a lot of heat before they really make sense.

The Alps are something I'm thinking about doing either this year or next year. I did helvellyn last year and overheated the brakes what was abit scary!

So does it take a lot more heat to get them to work good?

Paulfocus

Treated her to a deep clean this afternoon ready for Lee Quarry next weekend:

John Wh

Still looking good. Like how you can tell you have a lot of pride in your bike.

rockmonkeysc

Paulfocus wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Forget the floating rotors unless you're off to the alps. It takes a lot of heat before they really make sense.

The Alps are something I'm thinking about doing either this year or next year. I did helvellyn last year and overheated the brakes what was abit scary!

So does it take a lot more heat to get them to work good?

No. They work exactly as normal discs but are much less prone to warping when hot. If you want to reduce overheating then braking technique will bethel best option. Break when you need to and don't drag brakes. Just breakfast and release.

Paulfocus

John Wh wrote:

Still looking good. Like how you can tell you have a lot of pride in your bike.

Thanks I do look after her then hopefully she will look after me.

Paulfocus

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Paulfocus wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Forget the floating rotors unless you're off to the alps. It takes a lot of heat before they really make sense.

The Alps are something I'm thinking about doing either this year or next year. I did helvellyn last year and overheated the brakes what was abit scary!

So does it take a lot more heat to get them to work good?

No. They work exactly as normal discs but are much less prone to warping when hot. If you want to reduce overheating then braking technique will bethel best option. Break when you need to and don't drag brakes. Just breakfast and release.

Helvellyn was the first time I overheated the brakes, if you saw the rockie, horrible track we were going down you would know why! Lol I've done snowdon and they were fine there.
One of the main reasons I want floating discs is the bling factor and I want white centres to carry on with my theme of black & white.

rockmonkeysc

I have also done Helvellyn. Most of it can be done pretty much flat out, just hang on and think of England

Paulfocus

Abit of bling added to the Marin today


New Peaty grips.



And some new A2Z QR skewers

Nothing fancy but every little bit helps

Paulfocus

A before & after shoot:

wilberforce

Paulfocus wrote:

A before & after shoot:

Colour coordinated handlebars and door - very stylish

John Wh

They are very White

Paulfocus

John Wh wrote:

They are very White

They won't stay white for long!!! Lol

Paulfocus

Sadly the days are numbered for the mount vision now. But she will be getting replaced by a Marin Attack Trail 2015 in the next month or two once the funds are through for it.

John Wh

Aww no! Hope it's going to a good home. Please do a similar thread with your new ride

Paulfocus

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19648548#p19648548]John Wh[/url] wrote:

Aww no! Hope it's going to a good home. Please do a similar thread with your new ride

I don't know what to do with the mount vision? I've spent a lot of time and effort into her I don't really want to sell it on but it's pointless keeping her as I'll never ride it once I get the attack trail.

I'll be starting a new thread for the attack trail