|   coil forks | Dave in Ak
Oct 19, 2002 5:05 PM | | Has there been in the last couple years, a 100mm coil fork from Marzocchi or Fox that weighed under 4 pounds. If so, what fork and what year?
Thanks,
Dave |
| re: coil forks | Adam
Oct 19, 2002 6:33 PM | | The 2003 marzocchi marathon will be around 3.5 Lbs, and you can get it in 100mm..and its coil
should be a sweet fork |
| re: coil forks | Dave in Ak
Oct 19, 2002 7:33 PM | | If you go back a few days in this forum you will see a post by Larry of Mountain High cycles stating a real world weight of 4.36 lbs for the Marathon S. I, like many, was hoping it would be closer to the advertised weight than it apparently is. That weight is 3/4+ lbs over the advertised weight......come on Marzocchi! |
| I thought the Atom Race was close to under 4 lbs. (nm) | RVM
Oct 20, 2002 1:15 AM | | nm |
| It's tough to find a coil/oil fork that tips in at under... | Squash
Oct 20, 2002 6:48 AM | | 4 lbs. The focus lately has turned from less weight to more stiffness, and with good reason. The lighter the fork the more structural flex (ala SID) you get, the less precise the steering etc. To make forks stiffer and more precise adds weight unfortunately. When you add 30mm stantions, beefier crowns, beefier lowers, etc. You're gonna add weight. Then start adding lock outs, compression and rebound dampers, ECC, ETA, XYZ, 100mm of travel, (that 20 extra mm of spring adds weight too) and you add even more weight! The 01 Zocch Atom Race had a claimed weight of 3.75 lbs and tipped in pretty close "real world". The 02 Atom Race picked up the ECC cartridge stock, and in doing so picked up about .25 lbs in pork to a shade over 4 lbs w/uncut steerer. The new Rock Shox Duke series illustrates this quite well. The Duke SL (air) tips in at about 3.7 lbs, the Duke SL Uturn (coil) tips in at 4.2 lbs. The bottom line, air is lighter than coil springs. The only other forks that use coil that come in under 4 lbs that I can think of are some of the older elastomer/coil Manitous and Rock Shox with the wimpy 28mm stanchions and no oil bath lubrication. So there you have it, it's tough to find coil forks in the sub 4 pound class anymore. People want em stiff, with more travel, more do-dads, lock out thingies, and ajustable this and that these days. All this extra stuff adds weight. So it's very rare to find a coil/oil fork anymore, even in the high end stuff, that actually comes in under 4 lbs. Good luck with your search. The only one I can think of that might serve is the 01 Atom Race.
Good Dirt |
| It's tough to find a coil/oil fork that tips in at under... | Dave in Ak
Oct 20, 2002 9:48 AM | | I do understand that. I guess when a company advertized a 3.5 coil....ya get excited only to find out that they weighed the thing in a neg gravity chamber! The same old "Truth in advertizing" thing again. I will be owning a 4lb coil.....now it's the Fox/Marzocchi question.
Later,
Dave |
| there are a few... | pedalinbob
Oct 20, 2002 6:34 PM | | but i dont think fox or marz makes them.
the sx-r or six deluxe comes to mind. they are right around 3.5 lbs. they may not be as stiff as the heavier offerings, but they are pretty good, for me.
Bob<--currently own marz, rockshox, white bros, manitou and a custom angryasian fork. |
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