Yeah, the Marin has really piqued my interest....and that review did not help..haha. The want is high with that bike!
new Marin and Polygon bikes with the weird rear sus
Andrew Major has a Marin at the moment that he's nerding over, a review should be published in the next couple of days, weeks, months... to be seen. It will be great to have some perspective of how the bike rides on our local mountains.
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Yeah, I am really looking forward to seeing that review!
The line about them being hard to pop but you just don't need to has me wondering if they're getting "too good" and taking some of the fun out of it...
...but people say that every time there's a game changing tech introduced though so I dunno. I DO like a bike to feel active though so...?
I didnt really think about it when I first saw the bike (mostly because of the ugly it exudes), but I can see how flex might be an issue around the lower stanchion. The only think holding the back end inline are those two lower 'dogbone' links (for lack of a better term) and the shock mount 'horseshoe'.
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Yeah, I don't really pop much when riding...I like to monstertruck shit....so this may just be my next bike (depending on a test ride, hopefully soon). Being a bigger dude I do worry about flex, but the flow people said they did not notice anything more than other bikes...It will be interesting to read what the NSMB crew says about it though. The other thing I worry about is the longevity in the nasty BC winter of that stanchion above the BB, I don't see that little mud guard doing too much....maybe something like a mudhugger would be the ticket back there.
An actual mudhugger wouldnt fit on this bike as it doesnt have chainstays. You might be able to rig up something better, but the guard it has looks like it would do an OK job of coverage? If it doesnt do a good job, I can see that BB area filling up with all kinds of crap.
I see a lot of similarity with the Yeti Switch infinity and then I look at it somemore and maybe not, but I think you will see more of this kind of innovation
Talked with one of the guys at Cowichan Cycles, they test rode one and two of them are buying one, so that says something. He liked it going down the mountain but did not like the seat angle for climbing.
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