Marin Team Issue?

[greencat]

Picked this up today from a friend. He reckoned it was a 93 Marin Team Issue. Can anyone confirm? As he also said it had plenty of original parts...which is certainly somewhat doubtful. I think it appealed because it might be a Prestige frame and I loved the one I used to have back in the 90s. And I could do with a zippy commuter to get me off my ebike.

 

[gtturbo]

Now I'm no expert but as far as I know the cable guides on the headtube would indicate its a Team model as I don't believe the other models had the guides mounted there. Of course you can always decode the serial number. There is a thread here on the forum about it or Google marin serial numbers and you will find the thread. That will most likely tell you model, size and year etc.

As an aside using the above logic regarding the cable guides I spotted this for sale recently. Once I got it home and looked up the serial it was indeed a 94 Team so a nice little buy.

 

[gtturbo]

Here's the link for the thread I mentioned.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/decoding-marin-frame-numbers.433668/
Also with regards components you are right. Quite a bit of that has been changed I would say.

 

[greencat]

Thanks very much, @gtturbo I shall take a look at the bottom bracket just now.

 

[marc two tone]

Aye, with the exception of 1995 bikes, the team issue serial began with F1 or M1.

 

[Magpiegifts]

Picked this up today from a friend. He reckoned it was a 93 Marin Team Issue. Can anyone confirm? As he also said it had plenty of original parts...which is certainly somewhat doubtful. I think it appealed because it might be a Prestige frame and I loved the one I used to have back in the 90s. And I could do with a zippy commuter to get me off my ebike.

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They look incredibly similar. Good find

 

[Rotorhead]

I would say a '93 Team Marin rather than Team Issue. The former has a black fork. Nice either way.

 

[greencat]

The fork isn't original so that's not definitive unfortunately. The bottom bracket code is M23...which again according the thread above isn't definitive either

Not that it matters that much as it likely will just get ridden rather than attempting to restore to factory spec.

 

[gtturbo]

Ah try this thread. That would indicate a Marvel built Team (not team issue) but I think the 2 frames were the same, certainly the case with my 1994 as I looked into it.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/help-with-marin-frame-numbers-please.37430/

 

[brutuskrombi]

Is that down tube ribbed or it just looks like that?