Marin Quake 9.0 Advice

[Thunderchief]

Hey thanks, it looks ok to me, I can't see the brown tint though. ;-). I'm thinking about doing the colour similar to how the mount vision pro looked, i thought that's what yours looked like.

Cheers


Simon.

 

[wookiee]

Its not far off the Mount vision colour...The colour I wanted was the same colour of the piston on the X-Fusion rear shock and similar to some suss fork stantions (not for colour coding just cause I liked the colour!)

 

[wookiee]

Well wadda ya know a hard tail version has just popped up on ebay...albeit with terrible spelling and poorly listed!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marin-Mountai ... 23225f781b

 

[Thunderchief]

Wow that is terribly listed! I'm half tempted, I always liked the hard tails. I'm howerver suspisious when someone has a bike that rare but seems to know nothing about it.

It would need respray, I certainly prefer your old one to the polished look this one has. May be I could try the darker finish on this first?

 

[wookiee]

Its only the second one I've seen in maybe 5-6 years...looks like it will go for peanuts as the listing so bad!....My particular favourite:

"has got one off the best tyers on it wich is kenda they are like bread new."

Genius!

 

[LukeV151]

I just stripped my Quake 9 down last month and sold the frame for £70.

It was a small frame 17.5" and I bought new in 97 and built it up using the correct components apart from some Z1 bombers and XT crank.

I was lucky and did not suffer the cracks, but it seems the larger the frame the more likely it was to crack at the head tube. Mine only had a cage mount under the down tube.

I did find that the backend got a bit jumpy on fast decents, too much spring and not enough damping with the vanillia R.

Shame you missed it.

Kev

 

[michaux]

The eBay Quake
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481 ... 23225f781b

Has unfortunately been "updated" using poor quality components (no front mech changer, pro max levers, tourney 7 speed rear mech. and so on.

What would be the best way to put it back to the way it should be?

 

[wookiee]

....its back the Quake hardtail!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marin-Mountai ... 500wt_1288


Wook

 

[Chute55uk]

i had a quake from new (we sold them!) the rear swingarm alignment on the early ones were dodgy, i even took mine to the importers in hastings to sort out (they gave me a new swing arm) i replaced the forks with manitou fs ti's. the cranks were replaced with cooks and the brakes with magura hs33's.
i dont remember bottle mounts on the top, mine was an 18.
i loved it and cant remember for the life of me what i did with it but i raced it downhill and it survived. i recall thinking now i replaced it with a kona chute and a trek y22.
get one but check for play in the back end because you aint gonna get another
fyi. i saw one at leisure lakes in daventry around 2 years ago for £250 that looked original and have seen them sell for £200 on ebay so they are out there.