Marzocchi bought out, essentially bust...

[neil_bolton]

Following on from the other thread where I mentioned Marzocchi were up against the wall:

Marzocchi get bought out

As I said, hopefully Tenneco will invest heavily in the company, but its unlikely because of the high overheads of MTB warranty and R+D, I seriously can't see it on the MTB arm.

Their first port of call would be to yank production back away from Taiwan - we may start to see some quality of old again, the second, slim the bleedin range down!

Why they need 4 AM models, 73(ish) different models of the 55's, 66's and 888's I don't know!

[carter711]

Mazocchi have always been my first choice of fork and i distinctly remember getting my first pair of Z1 BAMS back in the day, they were awesome and massive at that time.

BTW, Mazocchi got BOUGHT out, not brought out.

[neil_bolton]

carter711 said:

BTW, Mazocchi got BOUGHT out, not brought out.

Fair catch edited...

[-C-]

I don't think the issue is specifically the production move, they should be able to produce the good out there.

They have just had a bad year. Problems across most of the 'big' range of forks with the 888's, 66's & 55's have been well publicised and it looks to have hurt them a lot.

Personally i'm not a Marz person, I think RS & Fox have moved the game on in quality of forks and damping. They were always lighter but that little vit more fragile as a result, but Marz traded on the legendary reliability (bar a few rogue models).

Now all they have is heavy, unreliable forks. However, it wouldn't begood if they dissapeared. Competition keeps everyone on thier toes

[Rico]

Hope they return stronger.

Think they overcomplicated things. Marzocchi were always the simple, reliable and strong fork. Their product range was also too big and too confusing. I just want an 888... not a WC Ata blah blah blah. 888 and 888 world cup would surfice imo.

[Mr_C]

When I bought my Bombers ('99 or '00) you could get:

Z1's (100mm (maybe 130) Travel)
Z2's (80mm)
Z3's (can't remember, maybe 75)
and..
Z4's (75 again I think but not as adjustable as Z3's).

It was that simple!!!

Glad that they've been saved though, they make some cracking forks, IMO the best around and the Bomber pretty much defined how good the suspension forks of today are.