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Marzocchi Marathon SL 2003 Front Shocks
Product Description- 85mm or 105mm Travel- Open Bath Cartridge - Dual-Positive Air Chambers - Negative Air Chamber - NEW! Cryofit Boltless ’M’ Crown - NEW! 1-Piece Mg MonoLite Sliders - NEW! [ECC 5] 5-Position Damping Control - 30mm Aluminum Stanchions
User Reviews 
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Guillaume
a Cross Country Rider
from Montréal Date Reviewed: July 13, 2006 Strengths: It is a lightweight fork. Plushness is good and it can easily be tuned and the maintenance is not that bad. ridding it give me confidence and it makes my rides faster and gives a better handling Weaknesses: None since those three months Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: bromont Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $200.00 Purchased At: a friend Similar Products Used: SID 100, minute 2, Duke u-turn, Marin, RST, MAG 21 and other old stuff. Bike Setup: GT zaskar all XT and TI components. 
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Marc
a Cross Country Rider
from Houston, TX, USA Date Reviewed: June 9, 2005 Strengths: Savvy Marketing Weaknesses: Inability to perform intended function as advertised. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Bluff Creek Ranch "Warda" Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Price Paid: $550.00 Purchased At: Online Bike Setup: Hardtail
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Daniel Parker
a Cross Country Rider
from Waco Texas United States of America Date Reviewed: December 7, 2004 Strengths: Very sturdy and adjustable good for cross country racing and maraton racing. Weaknesses: Rebound and Compression adjustment have to use a special little tool. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: speed run Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Similar Products Used: Rock Shox Race Titanuim Bike Setup: Bianchi Super Grizzly XTR all around wheels too.
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William Patterson
a Cross Country Rider
from N.Ireland Date Reviewed: November 21, 2004 Strengths: Well manufactured with good design criteria and attention to detail. Extememly tuneable and stiff with impressive tracking abilities. Weaknesses: Bushes are excellent but require time to bed-in. The manual isn't sufficiently informative. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 2 Years Similar Products Used: Manitou. Rockshox. Fox. Pace. RST. Bike Setup: Specialized FSR M4 with full XT.
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JG
a Cross Country Rider
from Ohio U.S Date Reviewed: October 28, 2004 Strengths: Very well designed with strong but light construction and a plethora of available settings from fast rebound to lock out. Low level of air leakages, much better that the SIDs. Great tracking in a point and go way. Solid braking Weaknesses: Slow to break in and the manual sucks. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 2 Years
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Pete Ross
a Weekend Warrior
from Scotland Date Reviewed: September 28, 2004 Strengths: Very well engineered to give sooth and consistent performance. A quite light suspension fork. Very good seals and very adjustable even with a lock down for climbing. A real quality product. Weaknesses: The saels are quite stiff at first and take a while to free. The instruction manual is helpfull but not enough. The positive pressure recommendations are far too high. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Glentress Duration Product Used: 1 Year Similar Products Used: Products by Manitou, Fox, Rockshox and RST. Bike Setup: Specialized FSR etc.
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Damian
a Cross Country Rider
from Levittown NY Date Reviewed: September 24, 2004 Strengths: I took this thing for its virgin ride today, man what a difference. It opened new lines on my regular trails that I would have never dreamed to attack with my old manitou. This fork will absorb anything you throw at it, just point the tire where you want to go and floor it. Weaknesses: nothing whatsoever, I would have paid double for it, I can't wait till it is fully broken in. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Stillwell/ Greenbelt Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Price Paid: $250.00 Purchased At: ebay Similar Products Used: Manitou sx, RockSucks Judy, and Sid. Bike Setup: Klein Attitude Comp XT everything, Avid BBs 203mm with Avid 7 series levers,and full metal jackets. Sun RhynoLites
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Jo Dowsin
from SoCal Date Reviewed: September 19, 2004 Strengths: well put together set of forks, good seals, stiff and strong, very adjustable, can cope with almost anything. Weaknesses: Give it time to settle in. The seals have got a lot of friction at first and need time to loosen up. The instructions are non too good you need to put less pressure in the + & - than in the book. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year
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Dean Steffenburg
a Downhiller
from Munich Date Reviewed: August 30, 2004 Strengths: Well made and good design with a very efficient set of positive and negative air chambers. Structural strength ensures no flexing on hard hits or under heavy braking. ECC control allows to tune the forks even more than adjusting the air pressures and can be adjusted on the cycle. Multiple rebound adjustments to lock out. Weaknesses: Time must be given for the forks to become smooth because of the strenght of the banjo seals. Marzocchi recommend using Silicone grease on the stanchions to help. Air pressure adjustments must be precise but the manual is no help with the negative doppio pressure settings. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Similar Products Used: Manitou, Magura, Rockshox, Girvin and RST. Bike Setup: Cannondale Jekyll Shimano XT transmission and disc brakes. 
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Wade McCormick
a Cross Country Rider
from San Marcos,CA, U.S.A. Date Reviewed: August 24, 2004 Strengths: Price for last years model. No leakage I can tell. Quality travel. Beefy build. Weaknesses: Poor owners manual. Difficult to adjust. Ecc should automatically disengage when big hit encountered. Bit on the heavy side. Not flex free. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $340.00 Purchased At: Supergo Similar Products Used: Manitou Mars Bike Setup: 2003 KHS Team ST. XTR, Eggbeaters, Crossmax, Easton M/Lite, Syncros post, Ritchy Pro stem, Flite SLR, Mosquito 2.35, very light bike (23.5 lbs.)
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Ted
a Weekend Warrior
from SoCal Date Reviewed: August 18, 2004 Strengths: Stiff and Strong. Light for it's strength. Tracks great over pretty much anything. Real smooth. ECC cartridge is excellent. Weaknesses: A bit expensive, but cheaper than the Fox equivalent. Takes a while to get the seals to bed in. Takes time to get the right pressures dialed in for your riding style. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $400.00 Purchased At: LBS
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Kervin
a Cross Country Rider
from Virginia Date Reviewed: August 11, 2004 Strengths: Smooth, responsive, very reliable, function. Weaknesses: Color – White fork and Virginia clay are a bad combo Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Big Levels, GWNF Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $200.00 Purchased At: Ebay baby! Similar Products Used: First gen Trek crap, Manitou 1,2 &3, Rock shox mag 21 and Judy, Marzocchi XC51 and Atom 80, Manitou Black 100 Bike Setup: Salsa hardtail, XT, Sram, Avid discs
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Bill Williams
a Cross Country Rider
from Bath U.K Date Reviewed: August 7, 2004 Strengths: Stiff, well made, tracks well, little deflection, little tip flutter under hard braking. Weaknesses: Takes quite a while for the seals to bed in. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Coed-y-Brenin Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $460.00 Purchased At: cycle1st.com Similar Products Used: Fox, Manitou, Rockshox extensive list of models. Bike Setup: Specialized Enduro. Full XTR apart from Hope Hubs, Hope Discs on Mavic X717 disc rims and Easton finishing kit.
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Tom Wiard
a Cross Country Rider
from Montrose co usa Date Reviewed: May 5, 2004 Strengths: predictable/weight/tunable/ Weaknesses: owners manual Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Monarch crest Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Price Paid: $400.00 Purchased At: Over the edge/Fruita co Similar Products Used: 98 judy xc/2002 duke 100 Bike Setup: over the edge full suspension(made by Titus like a racer x set up for 100 mm travel 4-bar) xt/race face turbine LP cranks /king headset/thompson/eston/bontrager mustangs
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steven foley
a Weekend Warrior
from Tujunga, CA. USA Date Reviewed: April 17, 2004 Strengths: When this fork is working properly it is awsome. This fork absorbs everything in its path and I do not feel a thing. It is very responsive on cornering as well. Weaknesses: I have had this fork for about 6 months and the oil seals blew twice and a seal in the negative chamber went bad causing the chamber to fill with oil. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: rainbow trail, continental divide trail, colorado trail Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $399.00 Purchased At: supergo Similar Products Used: 01 judy, 02 judy, 02 psylo, 03 black elite Bike Setup: weyless frame, full xt, thompson stem/seatpost, race face cranks
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