Marin afterburner
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Afterburner is the name for the seat stays, that is a Bear Valley from about 03/04
Afterburner is the name for the seat stays, that is a Bear Valley from about 03/04
one-eyed_jim
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It could be a slightly older frame with a few newer parts added. The paint job looks a good match for the 1997/98 model in the catalogue here:Ugo51":30yxhwkj said:
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/v/M ... y.jpg.html
I've got a '97 Team Marin frame with a serial number that begins 9708F - which I've always taken to mean August '97.
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simcfarlane
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It's under the bottom bracket - if you can find it I have a guide to decode I can dig out.
Mine was notchey on a '94 Marin. Replaced with a Ritchey Logic version for £10. Made a remover tool from some old pipe following a guide online.
It's under the bottom bracket - if you can find it I have a guide to decode I can dig out.
Mine was notchey on a '94 Marin. Replaced with a Ritchey Logic version for £10. Made a remover tool from some old pipe following a guide online.
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Looks like a bog standard Dia-tech headset, with all that junk attached to it, it may have been over tightened. It could just need new bearings. But then as above a new headset is hardly any money.
Get it fitted properly though, as you've already found, its an important part of a bicycle and fitting it incorrectly can really fcuk things up.
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Get it fitted properly though, as you've already found, its an important part of a bicycle and fitting it incorrectly can really fcuk things up.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-1-8-Thread ... SwN5BajvtI
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Revised my estimate looks like a 97' with newer parts. As to your headset woes agree it is probably bearings, all that extra length on the steerer probably isn't helping though. Personally I would put a higher rise stem on and a pair of riser bars to get the same effect....
Revised my estimate looks like a 97' with newer parts. As to your headset woes agree it is probably bearings, all that extra length on the steerer probably isn't helping though. Personally I would put a higher rise stem on and a pair of riser bars to get the same effect....
Ugo51
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But that would change nothing, wouldn't it? If the total distance is the same, however achieved, it stresses the bearing the same way.
But I agree, the handlebar is now very high. The previous guy must have been taller than me, or wanted to keep his back upright.
I will just get rid of the extender. Less weight to carry around
kermitgreenkona88":2i9tuhsd said:
But that would change nothing, wouldn't it? If the total distance is the same, however achieved, it stresses the bearing the same way.
But I agree, the handlebar is now very high. The previous guy must have been taller than me, or wanted to keep his back upright.
I will just get rid of the extender. Less weight to carry around
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