1996 Marin Bear Valley/Bear Valley SE HELP NEEDED!!

[demianmatthews]

The F is interesting, normally they are M, but Fairly (F) did make Marins as well

Anyways

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Fairly place of manufacture

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Eldridge Grade - level of frame (need to check but Bear Valley SE uses same frame)

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1994 manufacture (so either 1994 or 1995 model)


Colours all wrong though to what we are used to (I have a 1995 BV-SE just behind me)

the rest is largely irrelevant

What other marin frames uses this frame level?, I believe I will choose the 1994 paint job that I like the most and go for it

 

[hamster]

The paint looks like 1994, but the headbadge is later.
The Pine Mountain shared the same frame as the Eldridge and BV-SE.

For 1994 then 4 in the ranking would have been Eldridge, but I have come across other BV-SEs with the Eldridge numbering - after all there is no difference other than the stickers!