Marin DH FRS (B17)
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This is the bike that me and my biking mates all wanted at school, well the B17 was anyway. It wasn't the fantasy lottery-win bike, but was just about aheivable for some. Someone got one eventually, with RST Hi5 forks (which, if memory serves, were utterly hopeless), then we realised that we didn't really ride DH. Was still very cool though!
Thanks guys.
Never owned a set of triple clamps. First thing is to see how I get on with the rear shock as I read that these shockworks ones are a bit naff. Then upgrade the forks, might go a bit modern with some 120mm bombers or toras perhaps. We'll see. Rather just ride it for now.
Im really pleased with the rest of it though. Has some nice kit on it like the Tomac maguras, and complete XT groupset (M739).
Never owned a set of triple clamps. First thing is to see how I get on with the rear shock as I read that these shockworks ones are a bit naff. Then upgrade the forks, might go a bit modern with some 120mm bombers or toras perhaps. We'll see. Rather just ride it for now.
Im really pleased with the rest of it though. Has some nice kit on it like the Tomac maguras, and complete XT groupset (M739).
Go for long travel single crown forks! whilst the tubes of the B17 are'nt particulary thin there's no gussets strengthening the head tube area, twin crowns have in the past eaten a fair few of these frames, a friend of mine had the orignal B17 with Hi 5's (they worked quite well but he paid the extra to get the internals changed when new, can't remember what the conversion was) and broke 2 frames before swapping to a long travel bomber
EDIT: Mine has the Fox Vanilla RX and is just splendid
EDIT: Mine has the Fox Vanilla RX and is just splendid
