2003 was the first year of the Super Monster. 02 was just the regular and it was still pretty reasonable. 03 they went to a Monster and a Super Monster, and beefed them up a lot.
It was a completely different lower, arch, and crowns too. 02 and prior Monsters had their lowers terminate at the axle, they had machined arches and machined crowns. 03 and onward had lowers that extended beyond the axle, the signature M-arch, and solid crowns with DM stem capability.They say "produced in 2002"......would that be a 2003 model year though?
There happens to be a pic of a 2002 Monster (or something? homemade SC?), 2003 Monster and 200? Super Monster.....pretty obvious to me the SM is 2003 as well. The graphics and arch are the dead giveaway for me.
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Marzocchi Monster T 2003 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.6 out of 5 - 52 reviews - mtbr.com
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its possible. were the industry lizards doing MY fuckery that far back? or is this revisionist lizard history?They say "produced in 2002"......would that be a 2003 model year though?
There happens to be a pic of a 2002 Monster (or something? homemade SC?), 2003 Monster and 200? Super Monster.....pretty obvious to me the SM is 2003 as well. The graphics and arch are the dead giveaway for me.
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Marzocchi Monster T 2002 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.5 out of 5 - 39 reviews - mtbr.com
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That's actually Mariela dal Lago, and she's Argentinian.
Maybe it just signed a letter of intent in 2002?They say "produced in 2002"......would that be a 2003 model year though?
There happens to be a pic of a 2002 Monster (or something? homemade SC?), 2003 Monster and 200? Super Monster.....pretty obvious to me the SM is 2003 as well. The graphics and arch are the dead giveaway for me.
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Marzocchi Monster T 2002 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.5 out of 5 - 39 reviews - mtbr.com
Marzocchi Monster T 2002 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.5 out of 5 - 39 reviews. Read it's strength, weaknesses, find deals and pricing - mtbr.comMarzocchi Monster T 2003 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.6 out of 5 - 52 reviews - mtbr.com
Marzocchi Monster T 2003 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.6 out of 5 - 52 reviews. Read it's strength, weaknesses, find deals and pricing - mtbr.comMarzocchi Super Monster 2003 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.5 out of 5 - 14 reviews - mtbr.com
Marzocchi Super Monster 2003 Front Shocks user reviews : 4.5 out of 5 - 14 reviews. Read it's strength, weaknesses, find deals and pricing - mtbr.com
I believe there was also only ever 1 production run of Super Monsters, so they were all 02s, and also 05s. Depending on what year you bought it in, that's the year it was. Could be some "2021s" kicking around the warehouse somewhere, who knows.
Same. Had one on a Stinky 9, built it thinking I was a sick as fuck huck-master, as it turns out, I'm neither sick as fuck, nor a huck-master, probably not even a huck-apprentice to be honest. I did however have a lot of fun on that bike, and all the dudes I wanted to be like rode Monster Ts back then. One day maybe my barstool will get built, that or I'll sell it to a sketchy Russian hucker for like 15k Dodgecoins
Carbon Dorado! Or a Zzyzx.
IRC Kujo DH? Look at that front brake line flying around all free, just begging to be ripped off.
kujo dh on the rear. i think that was a gazzi on the front.
I lived through both the hucker craze and the DH racer craze. The hucker craze was infinitely more fun, in my opinion. The race thing was always more like a fashion show than riding bikes. Also didn't help I wasn't fast and spent my practice days just hucking shit.
Skinsuit makes you moar faster than 29" wheels, just sayin'....
My hucker friends were just into destroying as many bike parts as possible. If you did not break anything you were not part of the cool kids. (Un)fortunately I am not a fatty...ahem...I mean ebike rider...ahem...I mean plus size, yeah, that is it. So that makes destroying parts harder.
2nd gen 200mm
So was there any truth to that fork using actual motoX damping cartridges and being fairly decent from a damping point of view? I sawed open the old HSCV cart and it was just a tiny crude small piston with a rivet and two of the same diameter shims on top. Rebound was a check-valve orifice deal. Even the much later RC3 was not far removed, worse in some ways. This was about as crude as you could get, although even the old Monster chassis was pretty sweet from a chassis point of view, dynamic bushing, slotted stanchions. If you go looking through old Marzocchi catalogs you can find the trials fork it was made from, basically just added a brace and modified the axle a bit, but otherwise looked exactly the same.
