Yea its great when you can go around asking for free products then get bitter when you don't get it. Marzocchi seems to help out a lot of kids, that takes a lot of work and money. Seems to me they are doing a good job.
Did he just stop you as you were walking by and said "hey I'm gonna hook you up" and never did? What are you talking about then? Maybe he meant a sticker then....
no..i went to the showers and met with him as i was walking there, starded talking about stuff, i was wearing a marzo hat so he was like you ride marzocci and i said yes, he replied come by the tent and i will hook you up with some free stuff!!!
So did you go by his booth and ask him for some stuff? They were handing our caps and some other items, I got a cool hat from them and didn't even ask for anything. Maybe they ran out or maybe he wasn't there.
I heard Jr has a deal to race on Chad Reeds Supercross team in 2012. Maybe he's waiting for that! He's so fast on a 450 it's amazing, I wish I was a kid again.
rode zokies from 2000-2007 then the 2008s came out and they went to shit, so unless they are amazing and their tech manuals are up to date which they aren't and the dealer site sucks so yupppp out of their asses would be nice...
trust me if anyone wants to believe that the new ones are better that would be me but had too much luck with RS and Fox over the last few years.
I hear ya, their site needs work from the technical side but those guys helped my kid out big time. I can't stand my Boxxer and when I get the extra cash I'm getting a 888. I gave my Boxxer a year of hard riding and paid to fix it 4 times.
why'd you pay to fix it? If it was a problem that was caused by them not setup or just beating on it they warranty it with a 48 hour turn around time...
But I hear ya on the having to fix it at all because I would be pissed....
I paid cause it wasn't a 48 hour turn around. The rebound cartridge keeps failing and I wanted it fixed to ride. The first time it went in for service it took 2 weeks.
Then thats your own problem for paying then, do you really think you had the only fork in for repair when you sent it in, its the summer in Vancouver, I'm sure there were quite a few in there and it's not like there's infinate parts available there's a good chance they ran out for a bit.
So dont blame the bike shop, or the shipping company, just assume the fork is crap because you sent it in during the middle of the summer and it took a while for repair. And also a year of whistler riding is like 3 years of normal riding, so I'm sure the fork was just wrecked probably.
Amen, it's al dependent on shipper and whether or not they had parts in stock, in the us they had rebound cartridges a plenty in stock, and also available through a distributor if you so chose,.... sounds to me like a shop problem,
again let me remind you of the 8-10 bikes total each year from 00-07 maybe one of them didn't have marzocchi on them so I had more than my fair share of forks, and each one was great until tenneco took over, then they went to shit.... in fact most reputable shops no longer service or sell them around me due to these issues...
My bike shop is awesome. In fact they tell me they use about 600 Rock seals a year. That seems to me a lot of seals. I spent money on seals, oil, stanchions, cartridges, etc. That's retarded.
And since you're from whistler I'm assuming that shop is at or very near Whistler, which would make it the busiest biking spot in BC or possibly Canada. So when you have thousands of people from all over the world come to your shop for 5 months straight you have to be stocked up on seals and small parts for every rock shox model, so that's not retarded that just means rock shox has a lot of products in the market and again, a 2 year warranty, just remember parts don't grow on trees and you don't own the only boxxer in the area.
And the number 600 just got less impressive due to the fact that a lot of those seals are just for general service, rentals and warranty repairs, and as I said earlier Whistler chews bikes and spits them out. So if you spend thousands of dollars on a bike be prepared to spend hundreds more to keep it going over the course of time, and spread that 600 out over the course of a whistler season thats about 100 or so per month which isn't a lot considering the amount of traffic, and over the course of an entire year isn't even anything to blink at.
You have a strong case and I won't argue with your input but if you ask my shops opinion about that...they think its horrible. Plus, you just don't go to the Bike Park to have your fork serviced, you're there to ride. I believe my shop was mainly referring to their own rental fleet which isn't a lot of bikes. Furthermore, there are also a lot of shops in Whistler that can service Boxxers. Thats a lot of seals anyway you look at it. The busy time for the park is about 4 months so the work load and parts usage is concentrated to a few busy months. Im sure Norco and the other service centers are quite busy in the summer time. Norco offers great support but I bet the global demand is really high for Boxxer parts, maybe thats why they give out new forks for the smallest of issues. I also heard RS is going to introduce a completely new Boxxer next year, maybe I will wait for that one....
because the 40s aren't as good, they have a tiny service period and have to be maintained incredibly regularly to keep them feeling nice, loads of pros use them because they have a mechanic following them round to keep their forks perfect. also it is possible for companies to improve, maybe you should try to keep a more open mind...
Must be a Boxxer. I have one and its not bad but far from great. As a pro motocross racer, forks needs oil and my Boxxer doesn't have any in it. I need a 888.
All forks have issues, the boxxer and 888 both work great. What people don't remember is that the boxxer is a race specific fork essentially due to its weight where as the 888 has always been marketed as a freeride fork.
Check out the intended use chart and you can see that. 90% of the issues with fork repairs are misuse or due to incorrect spec by companies, the boxxer was on far too many freeride builds for plenty of brands, but what does that tell you about the confidence in them over marz.
Go look at any 2011 bike lineup and you'll be hard pressed to find anything that isn't a cheap dj fork from Marzocchi, where as sram backs up their forks so well with a 2 year warranty and plenty of available repair parts, so it's hard to complain about them.
The 888's a great fork, but Marz has a long way to go until they get their rock star status back that they used to have being the best suspension company out there, sram and fox have them beat by a mile.
As I can see Marzocchi has a 3 year warranty and the 888 is lighter than a FOX 40 with twice as much oil in it. Looks like the 888 is a perfect race fork and I plan to purchase one. The Boxxer isn't a pure race fork. What does that mean anyway? I spend a lot of money on my moto works forks and need to only change the oil. That's a race fork. Racing means performance comes first not specifically weight or the fact that it needs repairing all the time.
