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Marzocchi MXC-ECC 2002 Front Shocks
Product Description
User Reviews
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Chris Rankin Date Reviewed: February 3, 2013 Strengths: Wicked awesome. Super plush - still - even after 10 years of use at about 1,500 miles per year. Still noticeably less flexible than the 3 year old manitou I bought to use as a fill-in for it this winter while I (hopefully) get the Marz rebuilt. Weaknesses: The lockout lever broke. Squeay seals or internals. Bottom Line:
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aybarssurucu
a Cross Country Rider
from Izmir-Turkiye Date Reviewed: August 19, 2008 Strengths: Stiff, after 6 years no leakage, no dirt inside; even in muddy winter rides. Weaknesses: With air spring system, it's deaf to small bumps. But I changed the right leg's parts with the coil and pre-load adjuster of my old Z-2, played a little bit with the rebound adjustment. Now because of SPV system pre-load adjuster works like a rebound adjuster ;) Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Datca-Goat's Cave Duration Product Used: More than 3 years Price Paid: $175.00 Purchased At: From a Friend Similar Products Used: I cannot count :) Since 1996 nearly all RockShox models Many of Marzocchi's From the start most of Fox's Bike Setup: Mosso XC prototype non-series hardtail frame XT M765 Group
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Mark
a Weekend Warrior
from Chandler, AZ Date Reviewed: April 14, 2006 Strengths: Well built, plush, stiff, very durable Weaknesses: none Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: any Duration Product Used: More than 3 years Price Paid: $320.00 Purchased At: Rage Cycles Similar Products Used: none this good Bike Setup: This fork has been on three different bikes
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Scott
a Weekend Warrior
from Perth Western Australia Date Reviewed: July 7, 2003 Strengths: Plush travel, quite light weight, adjustable, easy to maintain, lock out is very useful Weaknesses: Lowers scratch easy, stickers come off, but pull them off anyway and you have a stealth 'bomber' Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Price Paid: $150.00 Purchased At: ebay Bike Setup: 1999 Trek 6000 with avid sd & 1d 7's, riser bar, new saddle and these forks
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PFunk
a Weekend Warrior
from Arcata Date Reviewed: June 10, 2003 Strengths: Well made, low maintenance, works like a fork should Weaknesses: none Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $275.00 Purchased At: speedgoat Similar Products Used: n/a Bike Setup: n/a
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Troffers
a Weekend Warrior
from Surrey Date Reviewed: June 7, 2003 Strengths: Stiff, strong and light Weaknesses: Takes time to bed in (but it's worth the wait..!) Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Oxshott woods Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $130.00 Purchased At: Bike shop where i work! Similar Products Used: Manitou spyder (rubbish!), countless forks tested on bikes in the shop... Bike Setup: 2003 GT Moto, Azonic bar/stem combo, WTB Weirwolf 2.5/ Schwalbe Fat Albert, Avid SD Ultimate levers, shimano cable discs 
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Andy
a Cross Country Rider
from Clarksville, TN USA Date Reviewed: May 6, 2003 Strengths: tough and easily adjustable Weaknesses: CRAPPY LOCKOUT LEVER THAT BROKE BEING IGNORED BY MARZOCCHI CUSTOMER SERVICE Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $250.00 Purchased At: online Similar Products Used: rigid, cheapies, tested a bunch before settling on this one Bike Setup: 2002 Kona Bear, custom built
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bobo
a Downhiller
from los angelize Date Reviewed: January 5, 2003 Strengths: air, full 100mm travel, looks, price, they work Weaknesses: none really for a fork that costs under 300 beans Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $279.00 Purchased At: Wheelworld Similar Products Used: too many to list  
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Tom simpson
a Weekend Warrior
from Albany wa Date Reviewed: December 29, 2002 Strengths: 1 they look sick 2 there cheap 3 there marzzocchi Weaknesses: 1 they scratch to easy 2 stock springs are to soft 3 they creak Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: mt clarence Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $500.00 Purchased At: great southern bikes Similar Products Used: sr suntour shox cheap crap Bike Setup: 02 avanti hotdog
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Skinny D
a Weekend Warrior
from Bangor Date Reviewed: December 28, 2002 Strengths: Stiff, durable, easily maintained. Weaknesses: Massive stiction, question over air to coil upgrade on ECC model Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Gwydyr forest, N Wales Duration Product Used: 3 months Similar Products Used: RS 99 Judy XC Bike Setup: 02 Enduro Comp
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Forrest
a Weekend Warrior
from Seattle Date Reviewed: December 8, 2002 Strengths: Super rigid, ECC is a great concept, super durable. Weaknesses: ECC knob Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $300.00 Purchased At: Gregg's Greenlake Similar Products Used: RST-281(junk), Manitou SXr (plush but flexy), Black comp 80/100 (new bike, no opinion yet) Bike Setup: 2000 Kona Blast, thomson post and stem, Time Aliums, upgraded rear wheel to XT-DT-Rhyno.
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Daniel S
a Cross Country Rider
from Moskow, Russia Date Reviewed: October 22, 2002 Strengths: The very name BOMBER speaks for itself! The fork is “IMMORTAL”!!! YOU BET! Many of my friends “torture” different Marzocchies (MXC, MXR, Wage, Z1’s) for several years by now with very little maintenance and service if any at all and they all still work nearly flawlessly! This is M’s quality I appreciate the most. Hopefully it’s well applicable to the rest. It WORKS GREAT!!! Responsive to minor hits even when pumped-up hard, VERY sm-o-o-o-o-th 100 travel, but NEVER bottomed! Never! (when pumped-up in accord to the manual recommendations, of course), damping is fine with some funny oil sounds (who cares), pretty stiff, seals are very good – they don’t leak, and keep all the dirt and water outside even in severe conditions and without the skins. I adore the ECC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though it has some “byproduct ills” (sea weaknesses), it’s definitely by far the BEST lockout variant on the market!!!!!!!!!!! No compromise! I started to enjoy uphill climbing with it. Other manufactures may do nice products as well, but unless they incorporate the lockout of a similar kind they remain behind. Heh! Low pressure air springs allow me to vary the fork performance for a wide range of different terrains. It’s pretty light and VERY CHEAP for its performance! After all, it looks impressive! What else should one expect from the $300 fork? Many $500 ones are not that good. Weaknesses: No pump included! Silly? May be I don’t need another one, so why to pay more for the fork? Weakness? it's up two your judgement. Plastic lockout lever might be a bad joke! Just a piece of crap deteriorating the entire fork flawlessness... As if some $10 speakers in Mercedes 600. eh!....... that’s sucks. It may go slipping at the most crucial moment. Once I had to stop during the competition for over a minute to tie it up and unlock! Damn! And ultimately the lever went broken in less than a month. I replaced it with a self-made metal one – bigger and two-sided. Feels OK now. Btw – it was not very easy to locate the lever and lock the fork “on the fly.” It’s surely lacking the remote lockout mounted on the handlebar like those of some new RS's forks. Yeah, nearly forgot. I finally switched to disk brake in front from V’s thanks to this fork. To tell the truth, ECC makes the fork slightly change its geometry, so that V pads rub the rim if they’re too close to it or when poorly adjusted. However, if you’re as stubborn and weight obsessed freak as I used to be and like your V’s, than you still CAN adjust V’s well enough and trouble yourself not with the extra expenses for the disks. And one more minor thing you should know. When it’s new - it takes about 10 hours of riding to start performing its best. So what?!!! It’s trivial. Don’t make quick judgments. Have some patience and after some time you’ll forget it’s there! Just perfect! Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Very differentiated: from racing to aggressive X-country Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $250.00 Purchased At: my shop Similar Products Used: I’m an administrator of the local veloshop and a member of the bike fan club. So I rode lost of different forks. RS Mg21 – piece of junk in all respects compared to Marzocchi. Super Fatty DL 2002. - Not so responsive as MXC. Expensive and exclusive. Though very strong, rather light and overall satisfactory. It’s mounted on my 2nd Cannondale bike. Judy sl – a raw paw-waw stick! unsmooth, a way to soft, heavy. Just stupid. No way satisfactory for its price! I rode such for 2 years. However, 2-crown Judy is much better. Psylo sl – Leaky seals!!! soft for a 85 kgs rider without hard springs. Somewhat heavy. Requires frequent service. “Dies” quickly. Duke sl – good enough. Quick & rather responsive. Same price as MXC but no lockout. Sid sl – FLEXY! too little travel. Disk brakes “kill” it pretty quickly. It’s definitely overvalued. FOX – very-very nice fork, but costly. Still requires more maintenance than M. lockout is not of ECC type. Good one, but i only tried it several times. it's 1 month old. Z1 FR – very impressed with it!!! Plush, strong, excellent performance, ECC, etc. but heavier, not air, and much more expensive than my MXC-ECC. However, if I were a crazy free-rider I would choose this one for sure. Some White Brothers – very nice, incredibly light, but not for the aggressive X-country. Bike Setup: Cannondale hardtail / Complete XT all over /xt disk(f) hub & Hugi 240(r) / Mavic 517 / XT disk(f) and XT rim(R) brakes.
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Daniel S
a Cross Country Rider
from Moskow, Russia Date Reviewed: October 22, 2002 Strengths: The very name BOMBER speaks for itself! The fork is “IMMORTAL”!!! YOU BET! Many of my friends “torture” different Marzocchies (MXC, MXR, Wage, Z1’s) for several years by now with very little maintenance and service if any at all and they all still work nearly flawlessly! This is M’s quality I appreciate the most. Hopefully it’s well applicable to the rest. It WORKS GREAT!!! Responsive to minor hits even when pumped-up hard, VERY sm-o-o-o-o-th 100 travel, but NEVER bottomed! Never! (when pumped-up in accord to the manual recommendations, of course), damping is fine with some funny oil sounds (who cares), pretty stiff, seals are very good – they don’t leak, and keep all the dirt and water outside even in severe conditions and without the skins. I adore the ECC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though it has some “byproduct ills” (sea weaknesses), it’s definitely by far the BEST lockout variant on the market!!!!!!!!!!! No compromise! I started to enjoy uphill climbing with it. Other manufactures may do nice products as well, but unless they incorporate the lockout of a similar kind they remain behind. Heh! Low pressure air springs allow me to vary the fork performance for a wide range of different terrains. It’s pretty light and VERY CHEAP for its performance! After all, it looks impressive! What else should one expect from the $300 fork? Many $500 ones are not that good. Weaknesses: No pump included! Silly? May be I don’t need another one, so why to pay more for the fork? Weakness? it's up two your judgement. Plastic lockout lever might be a bad joke! Just a piece of crap deteriorating the entire fork flawlessness... As if some $10 speakers in Mercedes 600. eh!....... that’s sucks. It may go slipping at the most crucial moment. Once I had to stop during the competition for over a minute to tie it up and unlock! Damn! And ultimately the lever went broken in less than a month. I replaced it with a self-made metal one – bigger and two-sided. Feels OK now. Btw – it was not very easy to locate the lever and lock the fork “on the fly.” It’s surely lacking the remote lockout mounted on the handlebar like those of some new RS's forks. Yeah, nearly forgot. I finally switched to disk brake in front from V’s thanks to this fork. To tell the truth, ECC makes the fork slightly change its geometry, so that V pads rub the rim if they’re too close to it or when poorly adjusted. However, if you’re as stubborn and weight obsessed freak as I used to be and like your V’s, than you still CAN adjust V’s well enough and trouble yourself not with the extra expenses for the disks. And one more minor thing you should know. When it’s new - it takes about 10 hours of riding to start performing its best. So what?!!! It’s trivial. Don’t make quick judgments. Have some patience and after some time you’ll forget it’s there! Just perfect! Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Very differentiated: from racing to aggressive X-country Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $250.00 Purchased At: my shop Similar Products Used: I’m an administrator of the local veloshop and a member of the bike fan club. So I rode lost of different forks. RS Mg21 – piece of junk in all respects compared to Marzocchi. Super Fatty DL 2002. - Not so responsive as MXC. Expensive and exclusive. Though very strong, rather light and overall satisfactory. It’s mounted on my 2nd Cannondale bike. Judy sl – a raw paw-waw stick! unsmooth, a way to soft, heavy. Just stupid. No way satisfactory for its price! I rode such for 2 years. However, 2-crown Judy is much better. Psylo sl – Leaky seals!!! soft for a 85 kgs rider without hard springs. Somewhat heavy. Requires frequent service. “Dies” quickly. Duke sl – good enough. Quick & rather responsive. Same price as MXC but no lockout. Sid sl – FLEXY! too little travel. Disk brakes “kill” it pretty quickly. It’s definitely overvalued. FOX – very-very nice fork, but costly. Still requires more maintenance than M. lockout is not of ECC type. Good one, but i only tried it several times. it's 1 month old. Z1 FR – very impressed with it!!! Plush, strong, excellent performance, ECC, etc. but heavier, not air, and much more expensive than my MXC-ECC. However, if I were a crazy free-rider I would choose this one for sure. Some White Brothers – very nice, incredibly light, but not for the aggressive X-country. Bike Setup: Cannondale hardtail / Complete XT all over /xt disk(f) hub & Hugi 240(r) / Mavic 517 / XT disk(f) and XT rim(R) brakes.
Submitted by
Dudeman
a Cross Country Rider
from San Mateo, CA, USA Date Reviewed: October 14, 2002 Strengths: Plush -- the negative spring makes for a huge improvement over the 2000 FLylight 100. Stiff. Reliable. Reasonably light. ECC is the bomb for fireroad climbs and sprints. Weaknesses: ECC causes some sort of tweak in the hub which alters the brake alignment, whether running disc or rim brake. The rights set up eliminates this problem. Lowers will scratch easily. Stickers are hokey, but you can take them off. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Double Secret Not-aTrail Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $240.00 Purchased At: Price Point Similar Products Used: SID XL, X-Vert, Marz. Flylight 100. Psylo SL. RST Mozo. Softride stem! Bike Setup: Kona Hot 853 steel hardtail.
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Alvin
a Weekend Warrior
from Spain Date Reviewed: September 12, 2002 Strengths: Strong, incredibly smooth, great response. The ECC, best invention on earth. Weaknesses: The ECC plastic lever loosened and stopped working for a while, braking my downhill joy. A quick tighten and no problem anymore, but I'll order the aluminium one. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: all but tarmac Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Similar Products Used: Rock Shox Quadra, Super Fatty Bike Setup: GT Zaskar Race Edition, Mavic 517, all XT/XTR, Selle Italia, ON/OFF Carbon-line goodies and an old and awful speedometer :-))
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