Marin Alpine Trail E1/2 thread

[Flip Flop]

I have a second battery for my E1. Marin sell spare battery covers as well but you’ll need to get four M4x12mm countersunk bolts. Works out well as most of my riding passes by my car at some point.

 

[coney]

If this has been asked before, apologies, but how many riders have bought a second battery?

Yep. It’s awesome.

 

[Cleggy]

So carrying a water bottle? How you all doing it?

I went with the bottle adapter from cycle solvers and the specialised side loading cage and I THOUGHT all was good, but the bottle (500ml) scrapes the underside of the top tube and in addition the piggyback on the DHX2 hits the bottle on compression and has worn a hole in the bottle.

I have now removed the adapter and am just using the bottle and side loader cage but the shock still hits the bottom of the bottle.

Any better solutions or is it time to go back to a backpack or hip pack?

 

[Pickle1970]

I have an XL size frame and the small fidlock bottle fits perfectly

 

[Cleggy]

I have an XL size frame and the small fidlock bottle fits perfectly

Thanks. Sorry I omitted to say I ride a medium frame

 

[Pickle1970]

Yeah that's a tight squeeze, sorry

 

[mxh]

I'm riding a large frame. The bottom of the water bottle was just catching the top of the shock so would probably wear through eventually. So I just taped a spacer to the bottom of the bottle cage - the bottle now sits a couple of mm higher and clears the shock OK.

 

[mxh]

Any thoughts on the new version - First Look: The 2025 Marin Alpine Trail E Has a Bosch Motor & More Adjustability - Pinkbike

I weighed my large E2 yesterday, running 29" wheels front and rear running Maxxix DD tyres. Came in at 25.8kg. Claimed weight of the new one (admittedly with cushcore installed) is 27.8kg - can't help thinking this is a step in the wrong direction.

Also - ugly! That motor looks huge - has a bit of the Levo 'pregnant seahorse' thing going on. Haven't really paid much attention to Bosch motors, but are they all like this, or is this just a 5 year old cheap one they've stuffed in there?

 

[mustclime]

I personally love the new bike…..finally a 4 bar suspension. There is no mistaking it for an e bike, I am guessing it looks that way for battery removal.

 

[Adam Anderson]

I personally love the new bike…..finally a 4 bar suspension. There is no mistaking it for an e bike, I am guessing it looks that way for battery removal.

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for me, the motor area is unacceptable

 

[Cleggy]

I weighed my large E2 yesterday, running 29" wheels front and rear running Maxxix DD tyres. Came in at 25.8kg. Claimed weight of the new one (admittedly with cushcore installed)

Did your older one not have cushcore? My 2023 E2 has cushcore

Agreed its now an ugly bike thanks to that Bosch

 

[mxh]

Did your older one not have cushcore? My 2023 E2 has cushcore

Mine didn't come with Cushcore, no.

I put one in the back wheel for a while, but moved to thicker sidewall tyres instead.

 

[Pickle1970]

Christ that new one hit every branch on the way down

 

[SlurpyTurkey]

Anyone here tackled rear brake swap? I have an E1, and am throwing on some Code RSC, but just got to the point where I realize the hose is routed to come in behind a portion of the motor. When I push it in it just hangs up behind where the battery plugs in. Would really love to not have to remove the motor, but is that the only way? What a friggin headache if so.
Bless my transition spire with its external rear brake routing.

 

[Pickle1970]

Yes I changed mine and it was a real pain to get around that bit. I did manage it though without dropping the motor.

 

[SlurpyTurkey]

Okay, figured out a trick in the process that helped a ton, and I now have Code RSC on the bike:
Pushing the hose rear to front, when you put it in the frame near the motor it wants to get pushed into the back of the housing where the female battery connection sits. There's two small bolts holding that on. Remove those, then gently pull it up. At first it felt like it only was going to come up 1 cm or so, but gently pulling on it for a minute, the wires loosened nicely (nothing came undone or aggressively pulled on) and gave me enough room to get my finger in there and push the hose up over the top of that housing.
With that trick I'd say it's as easy as any internally routed MTB I've done. Without that trick it felt virtually impossible unless you thought ahead and used the trick connecting an old hose when you pull out the old brake, as someone outlined in this thread a while back. Hope this helps someone down the road.

 

[Cleggy]

Just about to start to put a longer dropper in my E2 anyone know the size of the EP801 motor mounting bolts? I'd like to undo a couple to make the process easier i.e. to open up access to the cable housing. Are the mounting bolts hex or Torx?

Edit: 6mm Hex seems to be the one

 

[mxh]

Has anyone tried changing the rocker bearings? I'm not quite sure how to get the bearing out as there's a plastic / cheap metal spacer on the 'blind' side (outside) of the bearing. I'd use a blind bearing puller, but the other side of the rocker is in the way as the bearings need to come out in the direction of the arrow. I suppose I could just press the spacer which will in turn press the bearing, but the spacer doesn't seem that it'll be strong enough. Any Ideas?

 

[Fabdad]

Has anyone tried changing the rocker bearings? I'm not quite sure how to get the bearing out as there's a plastic / cheap metal spacer on the 'blind' side (outside) of the bearing. I'd use a blind bearing puller, but the other side of the rocker is in the way as the bearings need to come out in the direction of the arrow. I suppose I could just press the spacer which will in turn press the bearing, but the spacer doesn't seem that it'll be strong enough. Any Ideas?

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Just stripped my suspension down and when the extractor and press kits turn up I’ll be doing exactly what you’ve mentioned, I’m also concerned that those spacers look a bit fragile and hope that pressing them out won’t destroy them

 

[mxh]

Just stripped my suspension down and when the extractor and press kits turn up I’ll be doing exactly what you’ve mentioned, I’m also concerned that those spacers look a bit fragile and hope that pressing them out won’t destroy them

Out of interest, what extractor and press kit did you go for - I had a look but couldn't work out what I needed, so was just going to use the stud / washer / socket ghetto version.

And I'll be interested to hear how you go with getting those bearings out.