Hey this is pretty cool. Merlin is doing a throw back to the old days and making a retro mountain bike. From cycling news:

The Roots then, is a Schwinn Excelsior recreated in 3Al/2.5V titanium with modern parts such as a Rohloff 14 speed internal rear hub, Avid Juicy 7 disc brakes, Sun rims and Chris King headset. In keeping with the retro theme though, there’s no suspension fork, something that must have been a temptation for the guys at Merlin and that no doubt the original Marin County mountain bike pioneers would have loved to have on their heavily modified Excelsiors. Instead the Roots uses a vicious Cycles chromoly fork.

Sucks though cause they are only making 50 of them and they are gonna cost around $6500. If you want to look since you probably won’t get to touch, there are more pictures on the site.