Couple of Marin Barn finds (well, horse stables actually)

[JayLC]

Bear Valley SE is a lot worse but the Pine Mountain looks nearly all there. Not sure how i going to go with them as yet.

 

[JayLC]

Bear Valley SE first. Crank arms position is interesting! This is how i found it with what kinda looks like a crank arm extractor in it. Hopefully the mud has protected it rather than rusting it.

 

[JayLC]

Well it took 30 mins to strip all the bits off bar the seatpost which took over 2 hours. Does anyone know how Marin do their frame numbers. Took some pictures as best i could but they are hard to read. Apart from the hanger being a bit bent and some surface rust it doesn't seem too bad. Certainly no rot that i can see. Haven’t stripped it yet but it does look like the original headset which feels dry but not too graunchy. Hopefully just new bearings needed. Going to get a tap into the BB to clean up the threads, but again they don’t look too bad.

 

[CassidyAce]

I don't know about Marin serial numbers, but if you're wanting to know so you can work out which year they're from, I think you'll find that they're both 1995 models.