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Item discontinued - no longer available to purchase.
I bought this fork at the start of 2006 and have been abusing it for the past 6 months. This fork has detail improvments over Marzocchi's previous offerings in that the 2006 lowers are designed as post mount (This would not have been great a few years ago, but now every disk brake manufacturer has post mount versions of their brakes now and many only fit IS mounts when an IS to post mount convertor is used) and the dropouts face more forward, reducing the chance of a loose QR combined with disk braking pulling the wheel out of the fork.
The fork needs a couple of weeks abuse before it starts to get really plush. It's worth the wait and it's not like the fork is bad to start with, it just gets better and better though. The ETA adjustment has a much lighter action than the previous offerings from Marzocchi such as the All Mountain II from 2005 which I also own, making it easier to flick on and off when needed (Though to be honest I don't use it much as my bike (A Giant Trance) feels perfectly at home with this fork on it.
I'm using a 2 pot XT brake on this fork. According to the Shimano fitting instructions, the post mount disk calipers need a 165mm disk (which doesn't seem to be available from Shimano) to correctly fit post mount forks. However, everything bolted in place perfectly. Two 2.5mm spacers come with the post mount Marzocchis presumably to allow a 165mm disk to be run with the fork if you do find one, suggesting that there are two front post mount standards and the Marzocchi is compatible with both.
The only issue I've had with the fork so far is that the oil level in the ETA leg was set slightly too high, causing the fork to give about 105mm rather than 120mm travel. This was easily fixed by removing the ETA lever and the top cap of the ETA leg (The lever comes off with an allen key, the top cap of the leg comes off with a Shimano Cassette lockring tool - the ones with a long pin that goes into the axle of the hub to locate the tool won't work for this however) and compressing the top cap, dipping the spring in the fork oil, letting it extend again and wiping the oil off the spring until the oil level was correct. Choosing the correct oil level is difficult as Marzocchi have stopped publishing their oil heights/volumes unfortunately. Basically the oil level must be low enough that when the fork is fully compressed there's still a small air volume left over the oil. Any higher and the pressure in the air/oil sealed in the leg will stop the fork compressing fully. Too low an oil level will lead to a fork that bottoms out easily as the air isn't compressed enough to give the fork a rising rate.
Not a down grade from my old Fox Vanillas and heck, they may even have a decent life span as they are Bombers. The ETA is awesome on the climbs and they are stiff enough.
They work very well, easy to dial-in except for the incomplete travel that 'Pyscholist' rattles on about. So maybe if the oil volume is reduced these will then become brilliant. As is they seem to never use the last %10-%15 of travel (unlike Fox Vanillas) & it's not related to the air pressure that I put in them.
At this price, they are amazing.
went to the witches trail up at fort william and some of the local trails, they have been great. i have them set to 120mm and they soak up the big hits well. the ETA does help on the cimbs stops the bobbing around so gives a smoother ride. overall very good buy them!!!!!!
