Comments on: Marzocchi 55 RC3 Ti and 66 RC3 Ti

By: TroutWrestler

TroutWrestler — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:58:32 +0000

Why don’t bushings have spiral groves in them? You’d get the oil penetration but not the wear lines…

Perhaps I should patent that idea?

By: mindmap3

mindmap3 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:09:46 +0000

Jeez – they’re damn expensive. It seems that ever since Fox bought out forks that were deemed expensive then, it has given other companies the green light to make more complex forks and charge ever increasing prices…..£1,000 for 66’s? That’s a joke! They need to be better than the old Marzocchi’s for that price! I think 2005 was the last good year for them – I had some AM1’s and they were s**te. I bitched about paying £550 for some rubbish forks that spent more time at Windwave than on the front of my bike….let alone £1,000!

I’ve got some of the original 05 66’s and they’re awesome, still going and have all the adjustment I feel I need. And they were £500 or so in the day (which seemed a lot back then).

By: legin

legin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:19:26 +0000

i really dont understand the whole price thing.you can get second hand cars for the price of some of these forks.i think were being taken for a ride fork internals are not that complex.im more likely to get my old forks serviced than buy new.their shooting themselves in the foot if you ask me

By: xherbivorex

xherbivorex — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:59:38 +0000

my ‘05 z1 freerides are a great fork; super tough and very stiff. don’t expect them to go any time soon.
my ‘08 55ATA2s have just gone to windwave for warranty repair, the usual vanishing travel issues.
i’m optimistic though…

By: rolfharris

rolfharris — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:32:24 +0000

D0NK- I regret selling my ‘05 Zocchi AM SLs. The best fork every made I reckon.

One of our Demo bikes arrived with the 55 ATA and, like an awful lot of them, this stuck down to 60mm after 1 ride. The same has happened (repeatedly) to my friend’s XC700s, which I borrowed and was an awful fork.

Something bad happened, and I’m a bit apprehensive about my upcoming ownership of a 55 ATA.

By: D0NK

D0NK — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:36:29 +0000

Hmm lots of people seem to hate MZ round here, wonder if they are recent owners who’ve experienced the reported duff quality or just people who have read those reports. Were the same people around/remember when MZ did do forks that lasted 5years and plenty more (My 98 bombers blew their seals at the end of this winter, when I can be bothered to get some new seals I reckon they’ll go on for a bit yet)

Oh and from what I’ve read magazine samples are quite often pre-production and so certainly not cherry picked. (but I could well be wrong)

They have told whopping porkies about weights in the past mind.

By: skidsareforkids

skidsareforkids — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:08 +0000

“Even if they do end up costing £900, just think of it as £400 with a £500 saving in servicing over 5 years.”

That would be a hell of a turnaround if suddenly their forks became good enough to keep for FIVE YEARS! I’ll believe it when i see it…

By: thisisnotaspoon

thisisnotaspoon — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:23:18 +0000

open bath zocchi’s with simple dampers,

Even if they do end up costing £900, just think of it as £400 with a £500 saving in servicing over 5 years.

By: chunkypaul

chunkypaul — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:30:01 +0000

stop messing around with this “its only 101g more than the 2009 55 ATA and 362g less than the 2009 55 RC3″ crap!

is that 2666g or 2438g then? because it sure isn’t 1850g….

By: RicB

RicB — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:19:36 +0000

£900: is this April 1st?!!!

Who in their right mind would spend almost a grand on a Zocci fork given their recent performance and reliability? One of the recent 44 magazine samples fell apart, and I presume magazine samples are cherry-picked.

I don’t think they’ll be £900 for long – I’d expect to see them at about £600 based on what happened last year with RS forks.