What year is my Marin Eldridge grade?

[79superfreak]

I have searched bikepedia pages to find out what year this frame is, I bought it n.o.s off of ebay and am building it up. Does anyone know?

It says triple butted Chromoly on it, it would be nice to know the year.


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[79superfreak]

 

[Mark65]

serial number might help

 

[79superfreak]

i've gotta a 6 digit and a 9 digit number stamped on it.....

 

[Mark65]

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... ight=marin

This may help

 

[JeRkY]

im going to put in a guess at 97

 

[79superfreak]

Mark65......thanks... thats spot on it makes it a 98 and correctly codes it as an Eldridge grade