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Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

3040.0. "Marzocchi's "reliability" ???" by LEMAN::MARTIN_A () Thu Jan 11 1996 08:32

    Living in Switzerland, I recently discovered MTB and decided to
    buy a bike (equipped with a Marzocchi XC700 suspension).
    
    Talking to people having more experience on MTB than me and to
    some MTB dealers afterwards make me feel Marzocchi has not a 
    very good reputation about it's "reliability".
    
    It seem that a lot of forks suffered from "oil leak" and other
    troubles...to the point that a certain dealer told me he had
    so many trouble with Marzocchi's that he doesn't want to sell
    them any more!
    
    Personnaly I feel quite happy with my bike (and fork) but I feel
    a bit afraid of what could happen to my fork...and wonder if I
    shouldn't have bought a "Rock Shox MAG21" or "Manitou 5" instead 
    which seem much more reliables (to the feedback I had) ! 
    
    
    I would appreciate your personnal experiences on Marzocchi's !
    
    Cheers,
    
    
    Alain
         
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3040.1ShocksENQUE::MCGOWANThu Jan 11 1996 13:423
    
    Check out the shock topic in the MTB conference.
    
3040.2Ok, but pointer to the MTB conference ?LEMAN::MARTIN_AThu Jan 11 1996 13:5910
    Hi,
    
    >> Check out the shock topic in the MTB conference.
    
    Do you have the pointer to the MTB conference ???
    I didn't find it in my easynotes.lis file !
    
    Cheers,
    
    Alain
3040.3not to worry!CGOOA::MOLTHINK BICYCLEThu Jan 11 1996 20:5515
    I bought the Zokes XCR in May of last year and they have been
    really great.  Some days I really give them a beating on tough
    terrain and other days, on easier trails,  I don't even know
    they are working until I swap bikes with me.
    I did shop around and I think you made a fine choice.  Dealers
    are hardly a subjective source for critical comment.  Dealers love them 
    when they sell them and hate them when they don't.  Everything has a
    limit though.  The first shocks Maz built didn't sell because they were
    so heavy.  They were built with their knowledge based on motorcycles.
    Now that the weight and amount of movement is competitive, critics 
    lament what has been lost from the design.  Your 700 are good shocks
    built by a respectable company and they perform very well for the $.
    Who makes `the best shock in the world' is debatable.  Very debatable!
    Have fun.
    bruce  
3040.4It's very reliableFABSIX::S_ARCHAMBEAUSat Jan 13 1996 23:4919
    Marzocchi is a great fork. A lot of shops don't like them because they
    are not a catalog item yet which means they can't jack up the price. 
    The top of the line Marzocchi fork compares to the Rock Shox Judy SL in
    both weight and travel.  It actually performs a little better and is
    easier to maintain.  With elastomer forks you are supposed to change
    the elastomers once a year to maintain performance.  With the Marzocci
    all you do is drain the old oil and fill it with new, and new oil costs
    about $5.00 a quart and a quart will change the oil a dozen times over. 
    Rock Shox need fork boots and Marzocci doesn't because of the way it's
    sealed.  As far as leaking I've never heard of anyone having a problem
    with that, but I have heard of it with the Judy oil cartrige.  If you
    take a Judy oil cartrige out of the fork you can slide it in and out to
    simulate stutter bumps but if you slam it on a table to simulate a big
    hit it will lock up and won't move,  I have a Rock Shox Judy DH and my
    wife has the Marzocci XC700, trust me the XC700 is the better of the
    two.  It also cost far less.
    
    
                                -Shawn 8^)