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Yes I am riding a Marino frame. The quality is fine and the geometry is what you make it. Single pivot is an acquired taste nowadays but I love it (My ebike is an Orange Phase) and the almost linear/slightly progressive leverage ratio limits variables when tuning your shock.

Right on! I’m on a Ferrum LV170 (similar bike - love it) and was always curious how those Marinos actually were.

Yeah it's not too bad but a ton of fun!. The rock garden that transfers back onto the main trail immediately after the rock roll has some great lines too!

Hi Aaron, great question! Calculating travel on a single pivot suspension is relatively simple. It is shock stroke multiplied by the quotient of distance between main pivot to rear axle and distance between main pivot and swing arm shock pivot. So if you have a 50mm stroke shock and you want 150mm of travel, you know the distance between the main pivot and the rear axle will need to be 3 times the distance between the main pivot and swing arm shock pivot.

I just went out an weighed it and it's 35.5lbs. or 16.1kg.

@@A_Life_Behind_Bars Great looking bike. I don't think i'm man enough to pedal it. We don't have much climbing but lots of punchy stuff. Can still tell as lot of difference in under 30lbs

I went with a 15mm offset due to the steepness of the seat tube angle to try to keep a more natural pedal position while seated. A nice side effect, theoretically at least, is that it moves the chain ring axis closer to the main pivot resulting in less antisquat/chain growth.

@ very interesting, and how about that color?

I'm not really sure what the color name is, but it was option #25 from Marino's color palette.

So gorgeous! thanks, loving the blue/purple ano accents… im curious about how bikes like these marino/starling perform with coil shocks? Is this not a fairly linear curve? Do they not clack at bottom left and right?

@@MikeesTexas Yeah I definitely pondered the same thing when I had my first frame made and opted for a float x full of volume reducers but I ended up slowly removing the tokens as I was never bottoming out even at 33% sag. I then moved to an X2 with no tokens and very little high speed damping and was still rarely bottoming out on big hits. I now have the same shock my wife runs, the DHX, but with a 550lb spring and honestly it rides better than it did with either of the air shocks. I am going to do a video on both the frames I had made for myself and I will address coil vs. air in it.

My buddy had a carbon LTS many years ago and I remember it being a pretty good suspension design despite how crazy it looks compared to typical modern frame designs. Are you planning on restoring full retro or are you putting modern parts on it?

@@A_Life_Behind_Bars that is a great question, thank you. i will be swapping the front fork[ RS Iny C LT] for a black girven Chubby 5 LT and making it from STX shimano to perhaps an LX/XT mix and of course a wide ass riser bar. lol