Marzocchi Bomber CR Review | $300 COIL SHOCK??

If you’re interested in running a coil shock on your mountain bike but not quite stoked on dropping 5 or 600 bucks for one, well we might just have your golden ticket...

In this video, Mike talks about our favorite simple and affordable coil shock; the Marzocchi Bomber CR. It's easy to setup, easy to live with, easy on the wallet and offers an amazing amount of performance for the buck!

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[Guineson]

sooo what i am hearing is to neglect my rear shock for 2 years, save the service money and when it blows up buy this shock, got it 👍😋

[javierweatherspoon]

Sooo I ordered this shock because of this video and put it on my Stumpjumper. It added weight and was very eager to go through the travel when climbing. I could have possibly gone with a 600lb spring. But then I tackled my least favorite techy climbs and found that I was clearing sections I couldn’t previously. Medium rebound = major grip. My downhill chatter and rock gardens are fun now instead of death grip sessions. I’ll take the weight penalty for the performance 10/10 times. In short, it punches above its price point and I’m starting to see these on Uber expensive bikes on my local trails.

[thetrailtrawler]

Marzocchi were always my first choice when I was a kid! Z1 BAM, Dirt Jumpers, junior T they were so cool back then and I wouldn’t hesitate to run them now

[TrailFeatures]

Pro-tip: When you get the compression sparks to turn purple you get a short speed boost. 1:20

[tomkelly]

I learned more about shock setup watching this video than I have over the past year watching dedicated videos on the subject. This shock seems simple enough for me. I'll definitely be getting one!! Thanks!

[shaunpate]

I have been running one of these for the past year in Vermont, couldn’t be happier with the way it handles the rocky technical terrain of the northeast. Paired with a bomber Z2 in the front I couldn’t ask for a better setup for the price.

[Geordo]

I have been using one of these for a year now that I bought from Lost Co after watching this video. I have no regrets, I love this shock. Recently combined it with a Sprindex adjustable coil and it has made it even better. Thanks Mike!

[ifagb]

Just ordered mine and after a bad day the order confirmation email made my day 😊

[kondawg-MTB]

honestly this channel is like best best place to find out if its worth buying a product

[TheLostCo]

Would you rather run this $300 coil shock or 'spring' for a more expensive shock? 😏

[coryd]

This is the best quality video you've made to date. Top notch. I am going to pick this up for my ripmo af thanks to you.

[DailyMTBRider]

The real question is: how much PSI do I need to add to get that explosion but seriously, great overview Mike! I'm thinking I need to finally trail a coil. PS - I think you're saying the brand name wrong - it's - you're welcome 😉

[NorthernSkiAndCycle]

Best part about this is it comes in small sizes for smaller travel trail bikes (190x51/7.5x2.0).

[thomasphilyaw]

Awesome to see people give lower end products a good shake out and honest review. Subbed to your channel because of this review. Good energy and great filming!!!

[lachlanblair_sell]

have run one of these on my rocky mountain altitude for a while now and i have to say it is the best thing i have purchased for my bike!

[andreasqueo]

I’m running the Bomber cr since March 2019 and absolutely love it!

[egza]

Have the CR and the Z1, both are amazing! Love it!

[worldstallestmidget]

I had the bomber cr with a fox sls 700# spring because I am fat on my e bike. Kept the shock and bought a 550-670 progressive spring! It’s the best it’s ever felt

[russman]

I'd love to see a large blind test study between this and all the other current coil and air shocks. Have 10-15 test riders all with similar travel bikes. Then have an independent hidden party install the shocks on each bike, followed by wrapping each in a cloth "jacket" of some kind, and zip tie it tight on the bike. Have the riders shred a test circuit that has a climb followed by a descent that has both fast flow, and rocky / blocky stuff. Then have the same independent party swap the shocks between each bike and re-hide the shocks with the test jacket / zip tie thing. Repeat the test until each rider has done a lap on each shock. From here, design a standardized questionnaire that allows for subjective measures to be transferred into objective data.

I would be VERY curious to know if these "cheap" shocks hold a flame to top-tier products like the 11.6, in terms of statistical significance for rider feedback scores.

This test could be re-run several times, with several groups of testers to increase statistical significance. From there, you could also structure into the questionnaire some sort of metric that looks at rider biases based on perceived value based on shock brand. With that data, you could sort out what statistical significance perceived value has on perceived shock performance. The models could also be isolated for analysis on coil vs. air on perceived rider shock descending performance, as well as for climbing performance.

You could take this even a step further by creating yet another test study that does the same test, except this time allow each rider to know which shock they are riding. Run each shock on multiple test rider's bikes and run a statistical model that isolates "knowledge of shock brand, and its correlation to shock performance".

After running both studies, my hunch is that the high-end / expensive shocks would probably out-perform the cheaper products in terms of blind rider feedback, as well as non-blind rider feedback. However, I also think that perceived value would have a statistically significant impact on a rider's perceived shock performance. In other words, perceived value very likely has a significant impact on how someone "feels" that a shock is performing. Its possible that even if a more expensive shock feels worse than a cheaper shock, that the perceived value factor potentially offsets that difference.

I think a killer example of this is hubs. As of 2020, its really damn hard to find a garbage sealed bearing hub on the market. I'm willing to bet that cheap vs. expensive hubs are damn difficult to distinguish on the ride, particularly if you can't see them / distinguish the hub brand because of some test design.

I am kind of sick of the bike industry constantly convincing all of us that we NEED to upgrade to the newest shit because it supposedly waaaay out-performs the previous product.

Now, all of this crap being typed, I love the 11.6 and I9 hubs! LOL

[kentcruse]

Hey Mike, love the suggestion of using this shock for the bike park and saving the high dollar air for the trail! PS : glad to see no phones were harmed in the making of this video ;-)