Madison Saracen Factory Team Sign Alex Marin
Madison Saracen Factory Team welcome Alex Marin, who will join Marc Beaumont, Matt Simmonds and Matt Walker to complete the 2017 roster.
Previously part of the Giant Factory Racing Team Alex was a regular fixture on the junior world cup podium in 2015 and went on to establish himself at the highest level in his first year of elite racing.
The Spaniard scored two world cup top-20s in 2016 – 16th in Lenzerheide and a career best 13th at Fort William – and team manager Will Longden hopes that this year Alex can continue to develop.
“I’m excited to welcome Alex Marin. He’s a true racer and he brings an enthusiasm and passion to the team that we all relate to and are inspired by.
“I’ve watched him at the world cup races and he has great natural style. He also had some really strong results as a junior and a first year elite rider and we want to help him hone those skills and work with our great set up to find consistency and enjoy his racing.
“His personality really fits in well with the rest of our team of Matt Simmonds, Marc Beaumont and Matt Walker and I think it’s going to be a great year for the Madison Saracen Factory Team.”
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Alex has already been testing the new Saracen Myst Carbon on his home trails
 | Coming into the 2017 season, I feel like I have more to give at the races. The last three years on the world cup circuit went well and my first year elite I had some good results as well, but as I said, I thought I could be more consistent with those good results. Madison Saracen was the team that I felt I could fit in with, being a team close to where I live and with great people around; people that make me feel like I can give my 100% with no doubt. I have to say that the bike is the best I've ever tried, a stable bike that makes me feel I can go faster under control. I feel really stoked and excited about joining the team and looking forward for the next race already! - Alex Marin |
Madison Saracen will prepare for the 2017 world cup series with a series of races in Portugal through March, with the opening round of the British Downhill Series in early April.
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Good job guys, will be a great team to compete against ;-)
Bright future ahead
Yeah, Los Angeles or Marin are written without an accent, but that dosen't mean it's the right way in Spanish. Pretty sure the conqueror who founded the city named it Marín or Los Ángeles.
people change their names so easily these days
Don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to justify my mistake in my first post at all, just speculating.
My very best wishes to Alex. Of course.
there's actually a third option, though it is very, say, controversial. The surname Marín (with an accent) comes from a region of northern Spain called Galicia, so that Alex's dad might be Galician, one of the many who moved to Barcelona in the mid 60s to work in the booming car industry driven primarily by our famous dictator. So little Alex was born in Barcelona and educated there too, getting, in addition to a poor education that doesn't allow him to spell his own name, a peculiar political training based on the refusal to his origins.
Let's say Alex is ashamed of his origins and wants to change his surname with no disrespect to his father, the only thing he has to do is remove the accent mark from the surname and voila, sounds so different and so cool. Don't call me Marín, call me Marin, stressing the first syllable, you know.
joder!!!!!, I didn't realized, even sounds like a foreign name. I think I'm going to change my name next week.
I say again, I'm just speculating, any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence. (or not)
I get that people would like to see women encouraged in the sport, but teams aren't charities, they're businesses, especially factory teams who are trying to advertise their bikes.
my 2016 V10 is 63.5 and I prefer a bit more steeper and I bought an Angle Set to make it 63 and maybe try 62.5 but my local DH tracks are not steep as WC tracks.
But is funny that this article I cant see that this bike is with 63 stock head angle, I can notice that the head set can be any kind of Angle Set ahead set, also we don't know if he is using any kind off offset shock bushing that can make the head angle steeper...
but maybe you are the king of the truth and knows everything from every biker and also can not admit that 63 is the normal for 27.5 DH bikes today.
and its also very funny that a Canyon Sender, a bike with noticeable steep head angle has a 62 to 64 adjustable head angle so....
but maybe you think 63 head angle is perfect for a XC bike and a DH bike should have a 60 head angle with 27.5 wheels?
Never know though, maybe you like the 56* angles. That's why numbers are better than words bro.
Jah mon, him beak can 'old more dan 'im belly-can.