Marin News & Reviews

Urban Velo take a look at the Marin Lombard…

The Lombard is named after a famous street in San Francisco, and the bike is appropriately designed to ride it. When you live in a city known for its hills (like San Francisco, or Pittsburgh, for that matter) it’s nice to have a bike that’s equally adept at climbing and descending. And with big hills often come less than perfect road conditions, so the ability to run high-volume road tires is rather beneficial, too. The Lombard has all of these things in spades and comes with a price tag of just $860 complete (£799 GBP).

Urban Velo…

Equally at home on the hills of the UK! – Marin UK.

When I saw the price tag, I did a double take, making sure I didn’t miss a 1 before the 8. Sure enough, the price was right and surprisingly, Marin didn’t take any shortcuts to get there. The bike is well-spec’d, which I’ll elaborate on later.

Urban Velo…

Throughout the test period the Lombard’s been my go-to commuter. Maybe its looks aren’t for everyone, especially steel-frame junkies, but most of my friends from outside the cycling world took one look at it and said, “Cool!”

Urban Velo…

To read more go to:

http://urbanvelo.org/marin-lombard/

The Fixed Gear Gallery take a look at the Point Reyes 29er, not your obvious choice for Fixed Gear Fetishists, but these guys ride and love all kinds of bikes!

To read what they have to say about our utility, path, trail and urban slayer go to…http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/framebuilders/marin-pt-reyes/index.htm

“Pt. Reyes can’t do pretty much straight out of the box. Cross Racer, Singletracker, and Urban Commuter…. it’s all here”. – FGG

The Bicycle Buyer…

“would we buy it?”

“Definitely…practical and loads of fun, the Belvedere may even permit you an extra piece of toast at home as you’ll be at work in a shot on this!”

Delivering the Marin Bolinas Ridge Disc to the Gadget Show, as one of the prizes in their massive series competition.

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My bike is the perfect commuting warrior an ideal work horse for the road, towpath and light trails. My Muirwoods 29er is fast rolling, very comfortable and robust. I am able to tackle multi surface terrains on my commute to really mix it up and make my daily 25 miles always interesting. It really is a “1 bike do it all” ride for me, I have used it for touring, commuting and even serious off road with the aid of some xc tyres.

It’s a liberating bike, capable of it all.

- Mystery Marin Rider…

Walking the dog, Marin Man Style…

To read more about this tough, versatile and light weight Urban “work horse” buy Cycling Plus magazine now…

London Cyclist feature the Marin Toscana, Urban Cross…

I recently attended a Charity Masked Ball in Shropshire on behalf of The Wooden Spoon.

http://www.woodenspoon.com/

http://www.spoonchallenges.com/

“Spoon’s objective is to make a positive impact on the lives of disadvantaged children and young people through our commitment to quality charitable work…”

We supplied a Marin Stinson as a prize draw for new charity members on the night.

Many thanks to Wooden Spoon, Strutt & Parker and to all those who attended.

http://www.struttandparker.com/index.php

Retro technology with a modern twist…

For loads more images and to read more go to:

http://road.cc/content/review/30270-marin-ignacio

We’ve already said that 2011 will be the year of the urban gear and it starts here, with two instead of one. The Ignacio is a better bike than the Dominican for having the extra ratio, in my opinion. Okay you can’t ride it fixed but the kickshift makes it better over long ranges without compromising the look or the urban handling. I liked the hub a lot, enough that I bought one to build up into a project bike.

- road.cc

For the Dominican test go to:

http://road.cc/content/review/18385-marin-dominican

Just wanted to show you a quick spy shot from the Urban bike survival video we are shooting. From stealthy commuting to touring and hammering tow-paths the Muirwoods 29er can do it all.

The bike was great in the snow, super stable, robust and fast…

“You might remember that earlier this year we tested the Marin Dominican and found it to be a ‘well built urban fixer that’s fun to ride and easy on the eye’. Well now we’ve got out hands on the new Ignacio, which shoehorns a bit of kickshift fun into a similar package”.

- road.cc

Read more @ http://road.cc/content/news/28572-just-marin-ignacio