Originally Posted by
Lascauxcaveman
Great colors! That one has obviously been sitting a long time just waiting for you to come along and rescue it.
If you find those trigger shifters (especially for the FD) to be gummed up from sitting so long, you can usually get them working properly just by hosing them out with some WD40. This worked on an old nearly new Univega MTB I flipped recently, it had the same shifters. Squirt-squirt, click-click, repeat. Took about ten minutes and about a half a can, but it worked.
Tri-flow in a spray can probably works even better at breaking up the old grease and leaves some desirable lubrication behind.
The Marin is sweet. Early 1990s for sure.
You should be able to ID the exact year using this site:
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/...in/Catalogues/
Edit: Actually based on a quick scan I think it is probably a 1990 as Marin moved away from these brighter colour schemes pretty early and the 1991 does not match.
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Last edited by cyclotoine; 01-24-14 at 12:41 PM.