2024 Salsa Marrakesh Frameset

Marrakesh is our touring bike designed for exploring the world fully-loaded. Marrakesh is stable and predictable when heavily loaded, and durable enough to be strapped down to the roof of a bus jostling over a remote pass. Accessorize it with racks, fenders, Turkish dust around the bottom bracket, and mud from Thailands monsoon. When youve decided to stop dreaming and actually make that year abroad a reality, Marrakesh is a touring bike thats ready to pile on the miles.

Alternator Dropouts

Tune your ride characteristics and switch to single speed with ease. Our swappable dropout plates allow for multiple drivetrain options.

On-Bike Storage

Carry more on your bike and less on your body. Our frames and forks feature mounts for extra bottles, camping gear, and ride accessories.

TRIPLE BUTTED CROMOLY TUBESET

Our next-generation, Salsa-designed, externally and internally butted 4130 tubeset, engineered from the ground up, provides a strong frame at an impressively low weight. Specifically designed for and found on select Salsa frames

ALTERNATOR DROPOUTS

The Alternator dropout delivers incredible drivetrain versatility. Run singlespeed or geared, QR or thru-axle, freehub or Rohloff. Set the Alternator dropouts all the way forward for a shorter wheelbase that results in quick and nimble handling or set back for more stability-the power is yours. See our Alternator Page for more info

SALSA MARRAKESH FORK INCLUDED

Steel, straight 1-1/8", with stainless double eyelet dropouts, low rider rack bosses and Three-Pack bosses

GENEROUS TIRE CAPACITY

Marrakesh is designed around a 700c/29 (622 ISO) disc brake wheel and is compatible with 700c x 40mm tires with fenders or up to 29 x 2.0" tires without fenders. Maximum disc rotor size is 180mm

TOURING GEOMETRY

Marrakesh features a low bottom bracket for stability and standover, and adjustable chainstay length to tune wheelbase and turning characteristic. The front end is designed with 62mm of mechanical trail (66mm ground trail) resulting in a stable feel that still allows easy turn initiation when loaded

DROP BAR-SPECIFIC SIZING

Marrakesh Drop Bar comes in six sizes designed around drop bar setup and features a more upright and relaxed riding position on the tops or hoods for all-day comfort over varied road surfaces. The drop bar offers multiple hand positions, some of which provide aerodynamic benefits

DOWNTUBE SHIFTER COMPATIBLE

Shifter bosses on the downtube allow the Marrakesh to be set up with indexed or friction shift levers directly or adapted with housing stops to allow use of bar end, trigger, or integrated brake/shift road levers on the bars. This versatility increases the odds of cobbling together a shifting drivetrain anywhere you might need to...when the adventure really begins

MULTIPLE BOTTLE CAGES

All frame sizes accept three bottle cages. Three-Pack mounts on the fork legs inrease capacity to five bottles per frameset

FENDER MOUNTS

All frameset ship with Alternator swing plates that feature fender mount bosses and the front fork dropouts feature double eyelets

SPARE SPOKE MOUNT

Located on the top of the left chainstay, spare spokes mean a temporary slowdown to true a wheel, instead of a longer one

KICKSTAND PLATE

Because kickstands are highly functional and cool when touring, despite what roadies and mountain bikers might have you think

MULTIPLE CARGO LOADING OPTIONS

Our Alternator 135 Low Deck rack is specifically designed to integrate seamlessly with the Marrakesh frame and keep the load as low and close to center as possible. The Marrakesh fork comes loaded with both Three-Pack bosses and low rider bosses. This allows the use of either Anything Cages or low rider racks if panniers are desired. And dont forget to consider the use of a frame bag within the front triangle

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