Marin Alpine Trail 17.5" Medium, 06/'07. Really great condition and a great bike with very little use; I can't see a scratch on the frame! It is my girl friend's bike so I don't know what's original or upgraded (and typically nor does she!) but you can have a look at the pic's. She just spent something over £100 having it serviced - all the bearings are good, from frame pivots down to pedals & deralleur jockey wheels. In the service it had new BB bearings inserted and new gear-cable sets. The only niggle I can see is that there has been a kink in one of the hydraulic brake cables where she got caught-up by a small branch; this was ages ago and it has never proved to be a problem.
These are great frames - I ride one myself albiet with Wolf Ridge written on it - but they are the same identicle frames as is the Attack Trail.
Here’s some of a review from BikeRadar (albiet for the Rock Springs but again it is the identicle frame):-
"An excellent hard-riding trail bike with potent new geometry and useful adjustable suspension"
5 of 5 stars
Marin's Quad TARA (Travel And Ride Height Adjustment) bikes are the slightly more hardcore choices in the range. UK designer Jon Whyte is rightly proud of his Quad-Link frames and the 06 models are the best yet. The Rock Springs is the base model in the Quad TARA line but it does the job almost as well as the more expensive rigs.
The chassis
The TARA frames have been redesigned to combine a downhill-friendly ride with sharp handling and an aggressive trail riding character; it'll have you snapping at the heels of the cross-country racers. That's not easy to achieve. The suspension is as adjustable as it was previously, but the build and geometry are subtly different. The 6061 aluminium mainframe is created from semi-monocoque top and down tubes welded together from two halves.
Jon Whyte's Quad-Link suspension design is incredibly efficient and it has an excellent reputation for durability. It offers rising rate shock compression in the 100mm (4in) travel setting, linear compression at 130mm (5in) and falling rate at 150mm (6in). The slightly rearward initial rear axle path combines with this to produce buttery smooth smallbump responses, and Fox supply a specially tuned ProPedal Float R shock that emphasises the Quad- Link's efficient climbing and bump-taming characteristics. There's also good mud room front and rear. But the biggest deal is the reworked geometry. The head angle (angle of the head tube to the horizontal) is a degree steeper than last year, the bottom bracket is slightly lower and more forward and the seat angle (where the saddle is in relation to the bottom bracket) has been relaxed by 1.5 degrees. This makes you feel, as Marin put it, "less perched than on a traditional XC bike" but there's more to it than that...
£450 collected from Worthing area, West Sussex. Packing and Carrier can also be arranged.
Pic's are here - https://picasaweb.google.com/tonyacc51/MarinAlpineTrail?authkey=Gv1sRgCPCc_rbBqsPnBQ&feat=directlink
