Thanks for checking this out!
I was playing around with my Marin this evening... the lower front end will definitely make things very *lively*, but that's better than ending up with something that handles like a boat on the trails! If it proves to be slightly too much of a good thing I can always fit some longer bars, the current ones are very narrow indeed.
Have you still got the forks? If so I'm definitely interested - could you PM me to arrange payment/delivery details (sorry, newbie here so not entirely sure how sale threads are dealt with)?