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  • 30 years of Marin
  • 1-shed
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    The new Pine Mountain looks good http://factoryjackson.com/2015/07/06/2016-marin-mountain-bikes/ a touch retro but with nice clean lines.

    Posted 8 years ago
    z1ppy
    Full Member

    hmm not doing it for me, but each to their own.. (ex-marin owner)

    Man I thought the Alchemist was ugly but they seemed to be able to dig deeper each year..

    Posted 8 years ago
    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    I love it. But I often do love Marin’s line up. Someone over there has a good eye. 8)

    EDIT: The first, that is; not the second.

    Posted 8 years ago
    loddrik
    Free Member

    Boy do I like that pine mountain. Lusted after the grey marins with bright forks when I was a youth.

    Posted 8 years ago
    thegreatape
    Free Member

    Especially the Bear Valley SE with grey on grey…..mmmm.

    Posted 8 years ago
    fin25
    Free Member

    £750 for that pine mountain looks a bloody good deal.

    Posted 8 years ago
    1-shed
    Free Member

    That is what I thought, surprised their hasn’t been more interest in it.

    Posted 8 years ago
    cp
    Full Member

    Especially the Bear Valley SE with grey on grey

    oh yes!

    Rather like the look of these new ones too

    Posted 8 years ago
    Tracey
    Full Member

    Doesn’t seem that long ago, 1987, that I was driving down the A1 to Shockwave to buy my first mountain bike.
    An all black Marin Bear Valley.

    Posted 8 years ago
    bentiggerwyles
    Free Member

    For £750 that pine mountain looks like my new cycle to work scheme bike!

    Posted 8 years ago
    Dibbs
    Free Member

    My first MTB was a 1993 Marin Palisades and when the frame cracked they replaced it with a Pine Mountain. Quite a nice bike but I wouldn’t go back to it.

    Posted 8 years ago
    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    £750 is quite interesting

    Posted 8 years ago
    boblo
    Free Member

    OK for £750, you can have my Pine Mountain (the ‘real’ one)

    Posted 8 years ago
    cookeaa
    Full Member

    I’m not a B+ fan but that pine mountain does look quite good as a bit of a load lugger/bikepacking bike…

    Posted 8 years ago
    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    Looks quite good (Pine Mtn), first thing I noticed was the thiiiin seatstays, then the weird dropouts,/chunky chainstay. Like the retro graphics/paint job.

    Huge price difference from the 1 (4130) to the 2 (Columbus Thron) 😯

    Posted 8 years ago
    Northwind
    Full Member

    That is nice. Oldschool seatclamp!

    Posted 8 years ago
    deejayen
    Free Member

    I like that. Any pics and details of the Pine Mountain 2?

    Posted 8 years ago
    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    They’ve redesigned the Four Corners with discs and clearance for 29×2

    Looks like an interesting/affordable adventure bike option?

    https://cyclingabout.com/2016-marin-four-corners-touring-bike/

    Posted 8 years ago
    mcj78
    Free Member

    That pine mountain looks great for £750 – unless it weighs 40 poonds that is… could be a contender for n+1 and/or d-/=1 8)

    Posted 8 years ago
    nemesis
    Free Member

    My first mtb (well, not actually my one but same model)

    I really fancy one of those new Pine Mountains even though I really don’t need it…

    Posted 8 years ago
    corroded
    Free Member

    My first proper mtb was a Palisades Trail – circa 1989. I really wanted a Kona Cindercone but there’s only so many paper rounds a boy can do. Still, it was a pretty flash bike and we had some great adventures.

    Posted 8 years ago
    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    That matt baked paint finish was a thing of beauty. You don’t really see innovation in paint any more.

    Posted 8 years ago
    nemesis
    Free Member

    It looked great when clean but not so good when it held onto mud from non-Californian trails…

    Posted 8 years ago
    boblo
    Free Member

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    Posted 8 years ago
    chestrockwell
    Full Member

    Boy do I like that pine mountain. Lusted after the grey marins with bright forks when I was a youth.

    Just need a new Araya RM20 front wheel, a Marin saddle and mk1 Shimano DX STI and my 1990 Pine Mountain will be mint. 8)

    Posted 8 years ago
    D0NK
    Full Member

    Had a couple of antique marins parked outside work recently. Bear valley SE and a bobcat trail iirc. Look nice – in a retro way.

    I’m not digging the aesthetics of the new stuff (but all my bikes look shit so it’s not as tho I care)

    Posted 8 years ago
    Leku
    Free Member

    My first proper mtb was a Palisades Trail

    +1
    1988 from Walton Street Cycles in Oxford.

    Posted 8 years ago
    NormalMan
    Full Member

    I had a ’93 bobcat trail that I used to commute on and do some light offroad touring on (had a couple of Gary Fisher’s for more serious offroad stuff).

    Lovely bike. I lent it to a mate that needed transport when his car broke down. Never got it back. I think his cousin has it now 🙁

    Posted 8 years ago
    superstu
    Free Member

    The new Pine Mountain looks great and price is very nice. Interested to see what it’s like.

    Posted 8 years ago
    IHN
    Full Member

    My first mountain bike was a Marin, a Hawk Hill, and I bought it at about this time of year, 20 years ago. I still have it, others have come and gone, but he’s staying 🙂

    Posted 8 years ago
    Leku
    Free Member

    The new one seems to have a very large cassette. Saw a mention that it was a SunTour one (now that IS retro).

    Posted 8 years ago
    andylc
    Free Member

    First mtb was a Marin rift zone. Awesome bike apart from the unbelievably leaky Manitou forks which needed stripping after almost every flipping wet ride…

    Posted 8 years ago
    squin
    Free Member

    25yrs on and sat in my garage. Rockstar tyres perished and saddle swapped out years ago and clipless pedals on but otherwise as it was 25 years ago.

    Posted 8 years ago
    alandavidpetrie79
    Free Member

    Loving the new Rift Zone 29!

    Posted 8 years ago
    nemesis
    Free Member

    Just seen the rather odd brace on the PM1 fork – shame as it spoils the looks.

    Posted 8 years ago
    Tracey
    Full Member

    Tour of Channel Islands 1990

    Posted 8 years ago
    letmetalktomark
    Full Member

    I think they missed a trick not actually recreating the Zolatone effect but I must concede it looks a corker for £750

    Posted 8 years ago
    rhayter
    Full Member

    I had 4 Marins from 1989 onwards. Black and gold Bear Valley, silver and purple ano Pine Mountain, then that grey and orange Pine (long story) then the 1995 Team Ti that is in bits in my shed.

    Loved every one.

    Open to offers on the Team Titanium, by the way…

    Posted 8 years ago
    NormalMan
    Full Member

    If it were the black and gold Bear Valley then I’d be tempted. One of my favourite looking mtbs of all time.

    Posted 8 years ago
    scuttler
    Full Member

    My first ATB

    I agree the grey + bright forks era was superb. I really wanted one but ended up in 1991 with a Specialized Rockhopper Sport

    Posted 8 years ago
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