My new event site/pub bike. Full exage trail and chain stay brake. First event will be at mayhem getting me from race HQ to arena and not have to use my good bike anymore. It’s a little small but the bars are nice and high and the bio pace will give me the edge…
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Sweet.

the bars are nice and high

Yes. Yes they are very high and a very long way from the steerer

That is great! A real find. I’d be chuffed with that. How small is the frame and how massive is tge stem?

Also the rack colour matches the Marin decals. Bonus.

Shame about the puncture 😀

It’s only flat at the bottom Tom.

BioPace chainrings?

LOL @ 1981miked

Is that a bio pace chain set?

It’s only flat at the bottom Tom.

I see, just need turning round a bit then.

Is that a marin palisade?
One of them was my first MTB.

If its a little small which is the seat so low?

Looks like a ’88 vintage Palisades – here’s one on retrobike.

The diagonal bracing in your doors, isn’t it supposed to go from the lower corner on its hinged side, diagonally upwards? The right door does, but not the left…
I’m no expert, so happy to be corrected or told to be quiet.
🙂

Right let’s get some facts straight. That’s skip fresh condition, yet to be tinkered(which will be minimal). Those doors are at my workshop at work which slide to open to flat back height outside. The whole building is weird. Half of it is a fish farm and the other is my bike workshop(pictured) and my office is below.
Facts aside I will, in just a little way, feel 13 again riding it!
Nice one driex, that’s the size I should be on!

Same vintage as my first MTB, an 88 Rockhopper, and it shares the same groupset by the look of it. I remember the chainstay-mounted U brake with particular fondness. Combined with the flexy plastic brake levers, it was almost entirely pointless and a complete bastard to set up.

Chain stay rear brake! Awzums

That is great! A real find. I’d be chuffed with that

definitely agree with this 😀

early marins are awesome (had a 1992 eldridge grade as my first real bike).

Needs a bigger saddle 😉

congratulations on your new heap of crap, I didn’t realise they stacked shit that high 😛

shorter stem, wider bars, a dropper and some pikes and it’ll be trail centre ready.

Might be woth considering 1×10 as well

Can’t imagine why it was in a skip

*cough*

the other is my bike workshop(pictured)

Your shiplap appears to have failed in the ‘lap’ department.

The building is weird. It’s got a massive turf roof and it’s store rooms/workshop are built in the roof. Built into the side of a hill with a fire road behind. Not only that but it’s built on a spring, which has flooded my office/classroom twice. Looks lovely but very impractical space to work in. Bit like the skip rescue….