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Picked this up at the weekend - carboot sale - Marin Bear Valley - 40 notes - completely original and pretty much unused.
There's a guy who is at the carboot that I go to occasionally who obviously has a deal with the local tip as he always has loads of BSOs in varying states of repair.....of all the times I've seen him I've never spotted anything worth buying - until Sunday.
I haggled him down to £40 - it was clear under the muck and cobwebs that it hadn't had much use. My original intention was to buy it and part it out, keeping some of the original Marin bits for use on some of my projects, but it's so original and in such good nick that I just can't do it. All the Marin lite kit is present....the saddle/seatpost/tyres/bottle cage and even the original pedals and foam grips. It even has the crap plastic spoke protector on the rear wheel - and it isn't cracked!
It was the first proper mountain bike that I owned, and is probably in better nick than the 1 yr old example I bought in '94 from Madgetts in Diss, so it also has huge nostalgic value for me....all the more reason to keep it complete.
So Sunday afternoon was spent in the garden, in the sunshine, stripping the bike down to its component parts and thoroughly cleaning, de-greasing, re-greasing, removing rust from bolt heads/spokes etc.....the only bits to get thrown away were the bar end plugs as they were really scuffed up.
Here are a few of the before images......
There's a guy who is at the carboot that I go to occasionally who obviously has a deal with the local tip as he always has loads of BSOs in varying states of repair.....of all the times I've seen him I've never spotted anything worth buying - until Sunday.
I haggled him down to £40 - it was clear under the muck and cobwebs that it hadn't had much use. My original intention was to buy it and part it out, keeping some of the original Marin bits for use on some of my projects, but it's so original and in such good nick that I just can't do it. All the Marin lite kit is present....the saddle/seatpost/tyres/bottle cage and even the original pedals and foam grips. It even has the crap plastic spoke protector on the rear wheel - and it isn't cracked!
It was the first proper mountain bike that I owned, and is probably in better nick than the 1 yr old example I bought in '94 from Madgetts in Diss, so it also has huge nostalgic value for me....all the more reason to keep it complete.
So Sunday afternoon was spent in the garden, in the sunshine, stripping the bike down to its component parts and thoroughly cleaning, de-greasing, re-greasing, removing rust from bolt heads/spokes etc.....the only bits to get thrown away were the bar end plugs as they were really scuffed up.
Here are a few of the before images......