personally despite it being a bottom end model, i think its got to be worth £25 assuming there are no issues with it. Jeez, i spent more than that last time i went food shopping, and that ended up being the biggest pile of sh...
But imho, since you have to find every single other part including a suitable fork, you'd want to start with a better frame.
I guess if someone had a donor bike with a damaged frame where all parts could just be swapped over - and really wanted a fluoro marin - then it would make sense.
Exactly this, the whole point of a Marin IMHO is the matching Marin Lite, colour-coded forks, stem & bars. A lot of other brands just used off the peg parts for the stem and bars, but Marin designed all their own parts, even seat posts.
This joker wasn't far from me; I tipped him off as to what he had and didn't have but he still relisted it as a Team. Obv happy to con somebody which seems a shame since it wasn't even gonna make him rich...
I actually offered him £35 for the frame when I thought it was a Team but was labelled as a “Marin frame” but he wanted £60 IIRC.... a lucky eascape as it turned out not to be
Was a good looking frame regardless in the neon green, think that was one of the ‘92 schemes, you could have neon on either end. It would still make a nice bike built up if you had the bits lying around. But you can pick a whole bike up for beer money at the moment. Look nice hanging on a wall if nothing else.