You are reading a single comment by @adroit and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@adroit
I bought this Marin Indian Fire trail in 1993, my first race worthy mountain bike. I had previously used a couple of bikes but this had the really aggressive geometry popular at the time.
I bought it the day after the bike I had was nicked. That got nicked 20 minutes after I turned down the job of a lifetime, which would have meant a move that my partner didn't fancy.
So when I got home and was more gutted about the bike she was more than happy for me to spend £1100 on a bike, given that we weren't moving.
Days later I caught someone riding the nicked bike, and that became a rack and guards commuter while the Marin was a weekend warrior race bike.
In 1995 I bought a new race bike, and was supposed to sell the Marin, but that became the off road tourer and that started me on some epic jaunts carrying camping gear to all sorts of ridiculous places.
It is now my bike of choice for most rides, it has evolved into the perfect do it all bike.
The only original parts are the frame and thumbies. It has been rebuilt at least 4 times and has had 10 rims and is now on ceramics./attachments/79545
1 Attachment