Marin team 95?

[Daddy Giraffe]

This is an odd one - I had a 94 Team BITD and it looked just like this (when it arrived) but it was XT v-brakes. No roller on the stem, and I don’t recall a canti stop on the rear. So if this is a late (95) frame why the LX (?) cantis with fuselage hardware (I.e. they don’t look like retrofit after squeaky V frustration)?
Either way - nice bike, tempted to relive my 20s

Old thread I know, but it rings bells from when I was building a replacement for my broken BVSE out of a 95 Team frame, which still had its canti bar. I’m sure Teams were using cantis even in 96. The Team Issue that year wore XT Vees, and a year later they seemed to be on everything from Eldridge up.

 

[fguki]

x1xxxxx is an Issue frame. Not a Team frame. BUT I know, this rule can have exceptions.

 

[tweedi]

Apologies to dig this one out, however what does this mean? What are the bottle bosses and how are they differing from one year to another?

Edit..

Had another look, it has round bottle bosses. Making it a 1994 with 95 decals.

Thank you, still learning a lot about Marin frames.

 

[marc two tone]

With marins from early to mid 90's, there is not yet an accurate science to work everything out. Almost antiquary where rembrandt did paint something, but cannot be put down to the month/ year, but a masterpiece typical of the time when a certain pigment became available to artists.
1995 team, as a certainty had diamond, or delta shaped boses to affix the bottle cages on seat tube and down tube. A strong model identifier, even without decals present. Other high end models may have had them but i cannot confirm this.
Why....not sure as marins were not only losing the striking image they once had but the tubing was top gun and crazy thin in the middle of tube. I envisage the bosses were reinforced this way or a round one would just spin upon over torque. Welding would be risky...just my theory on that.
I can talk marin all day, anything else, keep posting.

Below, typical delta boss c. 1995 team.