Yet another 90s Marin MTB build, Eldridge Grade

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  • Found myself with another Marin project, this time a Eldridge Grade in a flourocent color scheme.

    This is a not a bike for me, hope to keep the budget reasonable.
    As for now the plan is drop bars, 1x gearing and some nice and fat slick tires.

    The frame is in reasonable condition. A very tiny dent in the top tube and some paintchips, but no real rust issues.

    As for the fork, the one that came with the bike is most likely not the original, it seem to be 3-4cm too tall to set up with a threaded headset.
    Might try find out the possibility to extend the threads or just look for a ahead solution.

  • Superbly bad documentation of the build, but it is up and running.
    Was curious how the handling would be with drop bars and a happy stem, in the end it rides perfectly fine.

    The bike is not for me, and the owner is happy.
    All in all a nice little project finished.


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  • Very nice frames those.

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