Just picked this up today for a mere $25. Will "sadly" be added to my steed of mtb's. Keeping up with my Bay Area theme.
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Started work on the EG. Worked mostly on the frame and fork. Touched up tone of scratches after a nice cleaning. Glad it's a mostly black bike so that was easy. Next up will be a clear coat for both.
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Love the paint job on this frame.

What's the plan? New parts are putting the old ones back on?

Thanks. Nothing special. Just bringing it back to life. Keeping it stock like most of my bikes.

Clear coating is done. Repainted the fork yesterday. Discovered some aftermarket stuff when I was cleaning parts. Drilled aluminum jockey wheels and and Onza middle chainring. Looks like the PO was into bikes too.
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Nice!

I think that is a '92 as opposed to a '94 though --- I have a '95 myself in a champagne (faux titanium maybe?) color, the 94's I thought were battleship gray -- I seem to recall the black and neon color schemes from 91 and 92

I had an almost irrational affinity for Marin bikes back then, - first real road bike was a tri color neon fade Marin Limited

Thanks! Yeah, I'm leaning towards '92.

Have you checked the serial # under the BB? Mine starts with 90 as it is a 1990 EG.
White with the neon paint splatters. Stock, except for Scott AT-4 bars, new saddle and tires...it IS 27 years old.

Yeah mine has M31AA0075.

And it's done. Not too happy with the tune because the alignment of the cogs and rear gears are off. When in small front/small rear the chain is rubbing on the center cog. All good with the other two so I'll just use those two for now until I figure it out in the future. Rear wheel is original Ritchey but front had a black Wolber so I grabbed one silver old school from my stash. Also found a Ritchey tire in my stash, old but if I ever use the bike a lot, I'll switch to another newer pair.
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Out for it's first ride. This bike goes on my list as one of my favorites too. Feels light, nimble, smooth.
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You brought that forlorn dusty old Marin back into the land of the living ! --- looks great !

Thanks! Appreciate it.

It was up on my rotation list so today it went out for a ride:
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I picked up this Marin Eldridge a couple years ago for my daughter. It set me back $40. She is into vintage road bikes and only rode it once so I sold it. They are very nice bikes. Enjoy yours!

Yeah I love this bike. It's one of the smoothest in my fleet. Thanks and too bad you had to sell your daughter's!

“And it's done. Not too happy with the tune because the alignment of the cogs and rear gears are off. When in small front/small rear the chain is rubbing on the center cog. All good with the other two so I'll just use those two for now until I figure it out in the future. Rear wheel is original Ritchey but front had a black Wolber so I grabbed one silver old school from my stash. Also found a Ritchey tire in my stash, old but if I ever use the bike a lot, I'll switch to another newer pair.”

You will prob never get small front and small rear to run without rub, because of the 3 rings up front, you can get away with “cross chaining” on a road bike with 2 rings up front.
Cross chaining will stretch your chain as they are not really designed with sideways movement ability.
On 3 ring set ups you would use the small ring for the 2-3 larger cogs on the rear and then centre ring for the centre 2-3 cogs and big ring for the small rings on the rear.

Yeah I figured everything out a few months ago.
Thanks though!

Just a minor update. Cleaned up my freebie Mavic?Coda wheel and installed it on the Marin so at least it now has matching Presta valves on both wheels. These Coda hubs are so smooth.
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