Anyone recognize these Old Marzocchi sus forks?

[Gotte]

They're Marzocchi air forks from the mid 90s. No name other than Marzocchi. NOT MUCH travel - couple of inches, but might be okay for touring on rougher tracks (I'm putting together a MTB tourer from an old Saracen Sahara SE frame).
Just interested in finding out how good they were/are.

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[orange71]

XC-R I think.

 

[big.eck]

XC-R I think.

i'd go for xc-r too might even be dh3's ? never seen them in red before but i'm from a small village

 

[Gotte]

According to this, you're right.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92496

Are they dogs, or any good?

 

[big.eck]

According to this, you're right.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92496

Are they dogs, or any good?

good find

i'd say there good forks , but i like marzocchi

 

[digitalkreation]

Yep, not much travel, but they're really good forks, better than Mag-21's in my opinion.

 

[big.eck]

i just realised , i have a set of these in silver :roll: the decals are diffrent tho

 

[Gotte]

Thanks for that. Anyone know how reliable they are - Like I said, I'm thinking of putting them on a mountainbike tourer, and don't want them going down miles from anywhere. Are they take anywhere low maintenance forks, or, being air 9which I know little about, more difficult to maintain than say, elastomers?

Thanks.

 

[orange71]

never had xcr's but my xc500's and xc51's were ok but did leak in the end.

 

[Gotte]

What happens when air forks leak, do they just slowly collapse?