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Marzocchi made the biggest leap forward with the bombers definately...they stopped worrying about weight and made forks that were actually stiff and amazingly smooth. After that everyone else had no choice but to step up their game, which is why so many independant machine shop style companies disappeared, because they couldn't do the forging and couldn't make the complex internals. People were bored of elastomers that went rigid in winter and like chewing gum in summer.

The Bomber was definitely my all time favourite fork, hell I still have it on my old Kona Hahanna.

The other advantage is having a suspension pump allowing you to adjust the pressure for certain terrain, that was the biggest leap forward for me being able to cope with gnarly gravel the size of tennis ball as well as on the smoothest singletrack.

Ahh, France is the best place to go off roading.