You might think there are some shit suspension products being sold today, and much of it overpriced, but I don’t think anything compares to the days when ‘elastomer’ dominated the world of suspension. It didn’t matter how many funky shapes you tried to cut out of the elastomers, they were always horrendous. And if it was cold, well you might as well forget it. It still amazes me to this day how much companies managed to get away with charging us for something so simple, and for that matter how they managed to make something so simple, so unreliable. Thank god they didn’t try anything more complicated is all I can say. Marzocchi deserve some credit though for being one of the only companies at the time that didn’t try to flog you a bit of glorified rubber in their high-end forks.