This video goes through each of the Marin DSX Models. I hope you find this informative and if you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments and I will do my best to respond.
I've got the DSX 2, and have clocked just under 4,000km (~2485 miles). It is a great solid bike. I am a bigger rider being 195cm and ~115kg (6'4", 254lb) and put a lot of torque through the rear wheel. I live in Melbourne, Australia and do a decent mix of road riding, gravel riding - and even some MTB on this bike. I will ride from my Bayside house up to the hills and ride the Commonwealth Games MTB track and then ride home - a ~75km ride with ~600m of elevation (46miles ride, 1969ft elevation) I have had to rebuild the rear wheel as the standard Marin rims had micro cracks forming at each of the spoke holes - Bikes Online ended up covering part of the cost of this. The bottom bracket needed facing and squaring off, but this is common for pretty much all mass produced bikes. Only in the last few hundred km has the bottom bracket started making noise - which is pretty incredible considering what the bike has been through. The WTB Riddler tires are fine, but with my riding (road during the week, dirt on the weekends), the tread only lasts a couple of weeks. I have moved to Pirelli Cinturato tires, and although expensive have lasted significantly longer than the WTB. I am still on the original chain and cassette, and only been through 2 sets of brake pads. I will hopefully be moving to a new bike soon, but if I wasn't I would probably swap out the brakes for something a bit stronger, just because I like doing stoppies at red lights to show off :D
@@SIMPLEFUN2929 Модель 2021 имеет одно крепление, модели следующих годов три. Так же различаются крепление оси и отверстия под гидролинию. У меня 2022 год - три бонки.
Great vid. I see in your vid that the DSX 1&2 have three screw mounts on the front forks, but in most pictures online shopping I see only one. Do you know if something has changed?
2021-2022-2023 have same brown color, but they only put the 3 on the 2023 and on. i just noticed this too and gives away the sites trying to sell the 2021/2022 as the 2023 one.
what's the advantage of Tubeless tires?? i'm new to 'biking'.....but i like the Marin DSX Models...comparing with value...of Kona 'Gravel' bikes!...are these bikes 'good' for Bike -Packing..some light 'off-roading'?
I keep hearing the obligatory "Shimano MT200 is better than Tektro M275"... I have the shimano brakes on my old bike and the Tektro on bobcat trail I picked up recently. There's no difference in performance. I prefer the tektro levers, they are shorter and just right for two fingers, they are also aluminium, shimano are steel.
DSX 1 Tektro brakes failed on day 2… rear wheel wobbles .. brake disc rubbing the pad… paint looks cool tho… My previous bike was a 2010 Muirwood 29er…solid… had it for 10 years… no issues… but it was stolen… I buy the dsx 1 and out the gate it’s a piece of shittttttttttt… there is no quality in anything anymore …the more you spend…the more it fails … bike is made in Taiwan if that means anything… save your money… buy the cheapest bike .. you will feel better in the morning…. Also… the bike is on the small side… get the next size up if you do plan to waste your money… bike weight is 21 lbs… feels much lighter …
instead putting too much dots, you should write more details about whats wrong with this bike, because i own dsx1 and i dont see anything bad about it so far
