Marin team 1993 frame 19"

[hamjan]

Hello everybody,
Ive purchased the frame here some time ago. Nice one with patina. Ive done some cleaning and polishing but than circumstances has changed and Im not going ahead with the build.
Please see original post with pictures:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=356647&hilit=Clearout%21+Marin+team%2C+Marin

£110 collected or I can box and Hermes it for about £5-10 if you live in the UK.

Cheers J.

 

[badams]

Re:

Hi, is this still available? I'd need to double-check it's the right size - I have a Bear Valley converted to a utility/touring bike which is too small as set up and figure this might be just the thing. You don't have a fork to go with it?
thanks

 

[badams]

oh also, is this 1 1/8 threadless? I thought Marins of that age were mainly 1 1/8 threaded, like mine, but that head tube looks fatter, and I figured it was maybe a 'premium' thing for the Marin Team to have a threadless setup at the time...

 

[legrandefromage]

oh also, is this 1 1/8 threadless? I thought Marins of that age were mainly 1 1/8 threaded, like mine, but that head tube looks fatter, and I figured it was maybe a 'premium' thing for the Marin Team to have a threadless setup at the time...

Its only the forks that have threads or not - the frame would never know the difference!

 

[badams]

oh, I am ignorant... I thought the two were incompatible. surely you can't whack an aheadset and threadless forks in an old 1 1/8 Marin? I thought the head tube was different ?

 

[legrandefromage]

The head tube diameter is the same size. The headset cups are the same size and often interchangeable with Ahead/ threaded parts to create headsets out of spare bits for those cheap builds.

Remember only the top few cm is ever threaded anyway so the bottom cups are often identical, say between a Tioga Avenger or many DiaCompe headsets.

 

[badams]

Re:

Ahhh I think I remember now, my Marin is 1 1/4"... That's why I couldn't use a threaded fork! Thanks for the info anyway.

 

[legrandefromage]

What marin? 1 1/4 has threaded forks available too!

 

[badams]

Re:

Gah, sorry, typo, I meant threadless! I have threaded forks, of course; it was the stem and replacement headset that were the problems (the former solved with a shim, the latter kept in service in the end rather than replacing as new 1 1/4 seemed expensive and rare if I recall).

 

[legrandefromage]

But what Marin? I dont remember any with what was then known as 'Evolution' size of 1 1/4.