Key elements include the lighting signatures at the front and rear, with the latter featuring Alpine ‘A’-shaped lights. Like Porsche, Alpine also says it’s open to the idea of selling customer cars to privateer teams.ĭesign-wise, the A424 is intended to wear language set to be seen on Alpine’s road cars in the near future. Powering the car will be a 3.4-litre turbocharged Mecachrome V6 – a layout that will be unique to the A424 on the grid – working in conjunction with a prescribed hybrid system. This is a continuation of the relationship between Alpine and Oreca, following the A480 LMP1 car that has raced in the WEC over the last couple of years. If you’re someone who’s more inclined to approach the trail like a playground and look for side hits and things to pop off, but also want a bike that’s up for some steeper, gnarlier trails, maybe some bike park laps, and a whole bunch of airtime, it’s great.As it follows LMDh rules, the A424 will use one of the outsourced chassis options, in this case Oreca, which is also used by Acura for the ARX-06. The Marin Alpine Trail is an exceptionally good value for the money, and one of the most playful, fun Enduro bikes that we’ve been on recently. It’s rough and ready to rumble, with high-level components at a price that can’t be beat. Marin’s Alpine Trail Carbon comes with everything you want, right out of the box.
The sum of its parts is a versatile machine that has something for most of us ‘normal’ riders, but with just enough extra for the superhuman shredders. A bike that feels as natural on mellow local lunch loops as it does on big endless descents. The choices in travel, spec and geometry might, from a distance, seem a little all over the place, but what results is a bike that can go all over the place. There’s something refreshingly classic about how Marin approached the Alpine Trail Carbon.
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