Marinoni Special Mountain Bike

[Guigui58]

Lovely finds. Is the chain stay chromed? I know he did that on the earlier Columbus tubed ones, along with the dropouts, for additional hardness. I've been curious about these for a while, would love to see a comparison between Eastern and Western Canadian geometry of the era.

@OldSkoolReTool'd Marinoni appears to have the chain stay chromed, but that's not the case for mine. Maybe it was an option at the time; my Marinoni came with a Deore LX groupset so it might have been a more ''budget friendly'' build.

I'll post some pictures when I'm done restoring it.

 

[Ingola]

@OldSkoolReTool'd Marinoni appears to have the chain stay chromed, but that's not the case for mine. Maybe it was an option at the time; my Marinoni came with a Deore LX groupset so it might have been a more ''budget friendly'' build.

I'll post some pictures when I'm done restoring it.

Here a link to mine https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1990-marinoni-special-mtb.484181/#post-3627062

 

[Ingola]

@OldSkoolReTool'd Marinoni appears to have the chain stay chromed, but that's not the case for mine. Maybe it was an option at the time; my Marinoni came with a Deore LX groupset so it might have been a more ''budget friendly'' build.

I'll post some pictures when I'm done restoring it.

Mines also Columbus

 

[OldSkoolReTool'd]

Mine does have the chromed chainstay and dropouts. They had some minor surface rust starting when I got it but cleaned up nicely with metal polish.

 

[Guigui58]

As promised, here are some pictures of my freshly restored 1991 Marinoni Mountain S as well as a scan of the original purchase order provided by Marinoni! The bike still had the complete Deore LX groupset when I bought it, but I replaced most of it by Deore XT.

(The color described on the P.O. is "red with the fork + rear black, white decals").