Do what you like.....its yours.....if it means you can ride it....all good imho.
Provided you not sawing bits off the frame.....what harm you actually doing?!
If somebody don't like it, they can change it when its theirs!
Just enjoy your ride.
A bike of firsts - '92 Marin Team Issue
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Do what you like.....its yours.....if it means you can ride it....all good imho.
Provided you not sawing bits off the frame.....what harm you actually doing?!
If somebody don't like it, they can change it when its theirs!
Just enjoy your ride.
br0qn
Retro Guru
Thanks, I appreciate that. Just read your new thread too which is sobering I'm sure for some.
I'm mostly concerned with whether or not I can make this marin fit. I found a bike I couldn't pass up which has a top tube about an inch shorter than the marin and it's pushing it.
Anyway, build paused as I return home, maybe get some time to focus on clockwork or merlin
vtwinvince
Senior Retro Guru
That's much too pretty for a DD IMHO, I trashed by '95 S-Works 'hopper commuting, wished I'd just used a crap bike.
br0qn
Retro Guru
Much has changed in a short time.
I had a stack of parts all planned for this but another bike came 'round that better resonates. I didn't mean for it to, it just....happened.
So this past weekend was planned build weekend. But I didn't get far...
that other bike got all the attention.
I paid more than I ought to have for the frame so I have an idea to use the stripped parts from the other bike, throw them on the Marin and build it up as a commuter and probably list it for sale locally to try and break even.
But it's soooo nice. I wouldn't even consider letting it go if it was the 15.5"
If anyone here thinks they might want to save it from commuter status, I'm sure we could work something out. May make a thread in the classifieds.
I had a stack of parts all planned for this but another bike came 'round that better resonates. I didn't mean for it to, it just....happened.
So this past weekend was planned build weekend. But I didn't get far...
that other bike got all the attention.
I paid more than I ought to have for the frame so I have an idea to use the stripped parts from the other bike, throw them on the Marin and build it up as a commuter and probably list it for sale locally to try and break even.
But it's soooo nice. I wouldn't even consider letting it go if it was the 15.5"
If anyone here thinks they might want to save it from commuter status, I'm sure we could work something out. May make a thread in the classifieds.
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Aye its proper long. I'd have to go for something more backswept to be comfy on that.
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