Hay guys,
Rescued a Marin Palisades Trail from the scrap heap the other day, gonna SS it and use it as a comuter. Has been sat outside for 3 years so needs some TLC. Have stripped it back to frame, bars and brakes
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Found it like this
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They hydraulic rim brakes? Magura? Don't have any but will be interested to see how they survived the enforced rest...
Edit, now I have seen the before picture I am not sure I would have done much more than swap tyres and lube up for a first ride 🙂
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hi tracker, BB is seized. Also need to sort the cracked seatube out
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Nice, I had a Marin Team from the same year. 1996 or 1997 IIRC. Featherlight steel frame.
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Yup, magura hydro rim brakes. Need a little tidy up.
Got a SDG bel air (originaly from the crush)
A pair of DMR V8s
A 16T SS conversion
A 32T chainring
SS half link chain on the way
And probably going for some maxxis big apple tyres
Having trouble getting the main part of the bb out of the frame. Got the lock ring out after a fight but the main bb won't budge. Covered it in wd40 inside and out and going to leave it overnight to see if that helps.
Had the seat tube ground down and fitted a non qr coller, grips, seatpost and saddle. Tyres fitted to rims (shwalbe CX Comp) so just waiting for the ss conversion and to get the bb changed over
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BB still putting up a fight. Snapped 4 teeth on the tool now!
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Did you hit the tool to do that ,
Have found they can be rather brittle to being bashed but bolt the tool in place and use a long bar and maybe some heat
May need a tentioner but otherwise finished!
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May need? Almost certainly will need! Hope you enjoy your single speed experience 🙂
Looks cool
How heavy is it?
Loving the Zoom stem!!
It looks really cool, although not sure I could stay perched on your saddle! Did you measure your chainline? It looks a bit out in that last photo (although could just be an illusion). I also suspect you will find that you need a tensioner (as I did!).
I have ordered an on one doofer tentioner.
The saddle "feels" quite flat to sit on, to me anyway.
No didn't measure the chain line but it is as close to straight as I could get with the spacers in the kit.
Just noticed I need to remove the reflector off the front wheel