Can you identify my recent buy

[mattbrown]

Finally hit a bit of retro gold at the local recycling centre - got this for £7.

It has what I think orginal MT60/62 canti's and chainset (different outer ring). DX pedals, chromo seatpost with cast allow clamp, chromo bars and stem. Spinner forks.

The paint is like shot peened effect


https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106656324686351543777/albums/5806885611457833249

 

[Grannygrinder]

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Marin of some description? I'm guessing obviously

 

[poweredbypies]

What you have there is a bargain especially for £7

 

[Dossa]

Wow, great pick-up

Seat bolt worth more than £7 alone!

 

[Charlieboy28]

i like to get carried away, but i reckon its a 1991 Team Marin.

My reasons, well its a marin deffo. front mechs always seem to survive best IMO and as its period correct and XT , suggesting a Team Marin.

The forks dont look like the usually slender and whippy spinner forks, they look a bit thicker, low and behold when i look in the archive at the Team Marin it came with a tange fork and not the spinner shared by the majority of the rest of the range.

A note of caution, i am usually wrong,

the paint is hammerite garden gate paint

 

[Grannygrinder]

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Thats good enough for me

 

[mattbrown]

thanks for the info - i would have resized and posted directly but on a linux lappy and was in a hurry

 

[mattbrown]

ill drip some paint stripper on it to see whats underneath, i couldnt see anything poking through

 

[xerxes]

Looks like a Marin to me, but I reckon 1990, after that they had fatter (afterburner - I think) rear stays.

Is there a frame number on the bottom of the bottom bracket shell? There's a thread on here somewhere that tells you how to de-code Marin frame numbers, that'll tell you the year and the frame model if it is a Marin.

 

[mattbrown]

i dont think its 91 as the brakes arent low profile, i say 1990