Interbike 2008 - Marin Wolf Trail 6.8 with Shaums March

Marin make what looks to be awesome bikes. I would love to see a DH specific bike and not just a Freeride. But Sick All MT. Bike!

That quadlink looks pretty interesting, and I like that green too

looks pretty damn sexy tbh

my buddy cracked a head tube and then his dad cracked a head tube..they look and feel nice but i'm not sure about them

marin deos make a dh specific

Why is every company focused on making such radical designs. Some of the upgrades do help with strength and stiffness but most of it is just cosmetic. I don't feel like paying an extra 100 dollars for octagonal tubes and curves BLAh!

Nice !

shaums really knows how to lay it down, guy just sounds pro just talking haha

150x12mm in the rear? Doesn't that seem like overkill to anyone else?

strange and ugly

Best bikes I have ever ridden. I came into my shop about 6 months ago looking for a new frame. One of the mechanics had been trying to get me on his quake 7.2 for awhile so i finally decided to take it for a spin. I rode it for 5 minutes and ordered up a Quake 7.3. I have ridden it now for a season and absolutely love it. Bike tracks amazing, climbs well. It really does everything you could want. Even their cheaper models you will not find a better priced bike for what you get. I will be purchasing the full DH version as soon as it is available.

My next bike. I ride a mount vision right now, it's awesome, but not the best on the downs... Got a friend with the wolf ridge and it's sooo sick.

I'd like to see an explanation for the "slopestyle" bike in the Marin 2009 catalogue we have at work.

wow 12×150 rear hub freeride and some dh frames would be envy

It's funny how many people bash the looks of this bike. Do looks REALLY matter when you're RAILING a trail. Hell...some people might say my Sunday WC looks ugly, but I'm not noticing...it melts away when the trail turns downhill!!

its seems like there would be a lot of stress on the pivots. cause it is like forcing the wheel forward. thats a pretty cool frame tho

Did any of ur mothers ever tell u if u dont have any thing nice to say dont say anything at all?????

Some of you base your thoughts on looks? What? Hummers look like a box on wheels but that's one of the baddies vehicles on earth. Looks... PAH!!! As a shop owner, I have owned several different long travel bikes. At least 2 dozen different models. Let me tell you, the Marin is a fantastic ride. Aside from the rear shock is difficult to tune, I have zero complaints. This coming from a guy who knows a great design when I see one, someone who's been riding bikes longer than some of you have been alive. It rails like it's on tracks, climbs anything like a goat, drops are soooooo smooth and it's actually comfortable to ride. I often let people test ride my bike, everyone's always very impressed.

Oh --- been talking about the Quake the whole time.
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mine's built at 39.2lbs

would be very easy to drop another 2lbs with just a few mods.

Shaums new rig???

http://www.marinbikes.com/cms/_images/DHproto10V2.jpg

Well I gotta pipe in here....like EricBirk I too was looking for a new bike this past spring and had pretty much been convinced by all my buddies that the Santa Cruz Blur LT was the way to go. Late one Saturday afternoon I dropped by one of the local shops to take a look at a Jamis as a comparison, well the shop owner really pushed me towards the Marin over the Jamis, he had one medium Wolf Ridge left and a medium and large Mount Vision, I road them all and found the Large Mount Vision to be a great fit and road better than anything I'd ridden to date. Long story short, I've been beating the hell out of it all summer in Fernie, BC and have even done some Chair Lifting at the hill, I have a hard time believing I could find a bike I like better and it has been bullet proof contrary to what some of the others have said. It is the best climber I've ever ridden and other than the steeper steering on the Mount Vision it's great as a middling DH'er too.

The Quad Link is neat and no gimmick, it digs in great and feels like it has far more travel than it does...I'd buy another one.

I just noticed this thread. I own a shop. We have ditched some high profile, easy to sell brands that supposedly have good suspension designs to make more room for Marins. When we send customers out on test rides they often return with a big smile yet looking kinda puzzled because they never even knew about Marin.
I ride a Wolfridge. It is my XC bike and my freeride bike. People comment about the looks of the suspension - sometimes positive, sometimes negative. People don't realize that the looks of the Quad Link are secondary - they look the way they do because they wanted the suspension to achieve a bunch of different things and placing the linkage the way they did was to achieve all the performance features they were after. I'm glad to see that people are catching on to the fact that Marin's suspension offers fully active braking, the best hill climbing AND best small bump performance while having the longest lasting pivot bearings on the market. The bikes are heavy because of the suspension design - people are also starting to realize that the number the scale shows isn't everything because the bikes feel much lighter on the trail because of the suspension characteristics. Before buying a full suspension bike, do yourself a favour and test ride a Marin.