MARIN NEWS & REVIEWS

The ink was hardly dry on the contract before Marin’s new signing scored his first victory for the team in the US.

Yuri Hauswald – an exotic German sounding name that translates as Housewood in English – rode a Mount Vision to take the tape in the gruelling 12 hours of Temecula endurance event. More »

One rider is scared when a man with a giant head looms onto the track and shouts BOO! More »

Marin have signed up for another year as sponsors to the Renault Driver Development Programme.

It means the young Formula 1 drivers of the future will be training on Marin full suspension bikes when they are not honing their race driving skills on circuits across Europe. More »

Billy Whenman is a talented 16-year-old from Gravesend in Kent who we are proud to support with a Marin endurance bike and a pedigree road racing machine from Wilier. He took a creditable third place at the latest Gorrick MTB club meet despite not being truly race fit. This is his race report: More »

Billy Whenman is a talented 16-year-old from Gravesend in Kent who we are proud to support with a Marin endurance bike and a pedigree road racing machine from Wilier. He was well placed in the last round of the Thetford Winter Series when cramp took hold and he was forced into fourth place. This is Billy’s report. More »

Welcome to Marin – The Mount Vision brings us back full circle

WHEN Gary Fisher first fit a geared drivetrain to his Schwinn Excelsior little did he know how it would send the sport of klunkin’ over the top. Now he and his buddies – Charles Kelly, Joe Breeze and millions of soon to be followers, could pedal themselves up to the top of Mt. Tamalpais. After scoping out the panorama of San Francisco Bay they turned around and bombed back down. There was no longer a need to wait for a shuttle. Pedal back up on your own and do it again. It wasn’t until that first fat-tyre gear shift that Marin County could rightfully lay claim to inventing the mountain bike. More »

FIRST RIDE! MARIN MOUNT VISION

• Swoopy frame gives stiffness boost
• Travel goes up, shock leverage down
• Superb, surefooted all-round trail bike

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What Mountain Bike Review

Marin Rocky Ridge in the £1000 hardtails, February 2007

“Forget your Marin preconceptions – this bear is ready to rip the trails.”

Marin’s AXC hardtails have been around for several years now, building up a quiet, underground cult following as each season adds or subtracts tweaks to produce a slightly different technical terrain taste. We reckon the 07 is set to become a classic vintage of this sparkling, but full bodied, fave. More »

With more manufacturers making women-specific bikes, we put two leading brands’ His ‘n’ Hers bikes to the test More »