MARIN NEWS & REVIEWS

NORTHAMPTON schoolboy Ed Chapman is the proud owner of a new mountainbike following a great ride in the Cotswolds. More »

Sammy Bryant – one of the most talented young female riders in the UK – relies on natural ability to get her round some of the toughest courses in the country. But now her rivals had better beware because the Marin-supported teenager is having some professional coaching to work on her aggression and jumping. This is Sammy’s report: More »

Marin’s Indian Fire Trail was reviewed in the American Mountain Bike Action Magazine in August 2007 where the team described it as ‘A Hard Act To Follow’. Read the review here. More »

While the ATB team was busy securing a third place at the 12 hour Bristol Enduro, Marin supported rider Sammy Bryant was riding her East Peak for her old Team Darenth outfit. As she reports, the brilliant teen rider was almost mown down right at the start: More »

Marin designer Ian Alexander and his partner Helen Purdy won the competitive mixed pairs at the Bristol 12-hour and had the immense satisfaction of riding their Marins fast and hard to beat critics from Singletrack Magazine by a whole lap into second place. Ian rode a prototype Marin frame with new suspension for the half the race in a test for the new design. This is his report: More »

Chris Armstrong of www.whistlermountainbikes.com reviews the 2007 Mount Vision riding the all-mountain Marin on Whistler, British Columbia. More »

Every team needs a captain and Paul Lasenby – former national champion – was the man for the job in Bristol riding with Marin team mate Billy Whenman and Whyte racers Luke Smith and Mike Chappell. Here’s Paul’s report: More »

ATB’s scratch team came away with a podium place in Bristol after 12 hours’ hard riding and Billy The Whizz Whenman got the fastest lap time of the entire event. More »

The talented Marin rider Sammy Bryant was pulled from the Beastways Series by the organisers after trying to race with a severe head cold.

The teenager was looking forward to racing NPS at Margam but respected the organisers’ judgement and retired after one lap of the forest. More »

Jesse Wigman is an expert 19-year-old downhiller who races a Marin Quake. This is his report from the second round of the SDA at Dunkeld, Scotland’s gnarliest trail last weekend: More »