I thought I better add a bit of content for my BOTM entry....Tootyred Team Marin, in this months "original owner " special.
Originally bought from Steve at Elmy Cycles (who's also a fellow retrobiker) in 1989. At the time is was working in another shop and what swayed me to buy when i did was the sight of the new "Zolotone " models the rep proudly showed us! To this I day I just don't get it....
Mine was very late in the production run and being big took a bit of waiting to get one....when it arrived it had black forks.....pink had run out and the following year were to be different models.....so I got plain black.
Within 2 weeks i had started to upgrade it, seat cover in a funky flowery design, followed by new lighter Mavic MA40 rims that i built onto the original hubs.....radial front obviously. The original Araya set lasted a couple of serious races then the rear folded.....I think it was probably poor building rather than the rims fault.!
Here it is in 1990
Originally bought from Steve at Elmy Cycles (who's also a fellow retrobiker) in 1989. At the time is was working in another shop and what swayed me to buy when i did was the sight of the new "Zolotone " models the rep proudly showed us! To this I day I just don't get it....
Mine was very late in the production run and being big took a bit of waiting to get one....when it arrived it had black forks.....pink had run out and the following year were to be different models.....so I got plain black.
Within 2 weeks i had started to upgrade it, seat cover in a funky flowery design, followed by new lighter Mavic MA40 rims that i built onto the original hubs.....radial front obviously. The original Araya set lasted a couple of serious races then the rear folded.....I think it was probably poor building rather than the rims fault.!
Here it is in 1990
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