The Marin Mount Vision is a legendary name in the mountain biking world, and for good reason, being one of the first full suspension machines that could be used for everything from cross-country racing to trail riding. This 2019 redesign now gets the unique R3ACT – 2 Play suspension platform, plus 650b wheels and 150mm of travel on an all carbon fibre frame.

The big talking point with the new bike is likely to be the R3ACT – 2 Play suspension platform, which it shares with Marin’s Wolf Ridge. The design uses a tube-like telescoping strut as a part of the suspension in addition to a conventional linkage, which Marin claims delivers ‘ground tracing performance’ as well as pedalling efficiency.

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The Mount Vision also gets a swing link driving the shock to improve rear end stiffness and the small/medium frame sizes get a different suspension kinematic to the large/extra large bikes too. Compared to the Wolf Ridge, the geometry is also a fair bit more progressive, despite it being the shorter travel (and smaller wheeled) of the two.

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The frame and swingarm are both carbon fibre, with injection moulded composite swing links. The head angle is decently slack at 65°, while reach is also decent at 471mm for a size large. The effective seat tube angle is 75.1°, though the actual figure is 64.1° due to the very offset seat tube. Short offset forks are used on the two higher spec bikes as is a super wide 787mm bar (780mm otherwise) and dinky 30mm stems across the board.

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The Mount Vision range

There will be three bikes in the range, all sharing the same grade of frame.

The Mount Vision Pro is the range topper at £8,700 with a full Shimano XTR 12spd drivetrain plus Fox Factory Float X2 shock and Factory 36 FIT GRIP 2 fork. You also get carbon E*13 rims and matching E*13 TRS tyres.

The Mount Vision 9 comes in at £6,500 with a SRAM X01 Eagle 12spd group with Fox Performance Float X2 shock and Performance Elite  36 GRIP fork, with Stan’s Sentry rims and WTB Trail Boss 2.6″ rubber.

The Mount Vision 8 costs £5,200 and gets a 12spd SRAM NX Eagle group, RockShox Pike RC fork and RockShox Deluxe R shock, with Stan’s Sentry S1 pinned rims and the same Trail Boss rubber.

Both the Mount Vision 8 and 9 are ready to ship now, but the Pro will be available in ‘late spring 2019’. For more info, head to their site:

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