timothy st.john
Cruisin' Guzzisti
Hello everyone,
This question is for the experts, or people who have 'fork' experience on the V7. As I have none yet, I'm given to wonder which components in a V7 front fork assembly are actually 'component' to it. When we are talking about different forks on this bike, Marzocchi or Kaifa, what are we actually talking about? Tube assemblies?
Why did Guzzi actually change the forks? Usually its simple economics; even if an improvement was sought in pursuit of performance upgrade. That being the case, is the Kaifa fork actually an improvement over the Marzocchi or was it just a cheaper option for Guzzi (with or without a performance upgrade)?
When Guzzi sourced 'forks' from either Marzocchi (pre 2013) or Kaifa, were they built for Guzzi to specific performance standards (and/or external dimensions) by the manufacturers, or simply sourced from existing supply by those manufacturers as being suitable by Guzzi?
Do the Marzocchi tubes fit the same triple clamps used on the Kaifa tubes? If so, is one better than the other as a starting point? Maybe the Mupo spring kit seems to work better simply because its in the Marzocchi tube, and the Matris is only in the Kaifa. Is the Marzocchi tube a significantly better place to start?
That being the case, how much do tubes cost? I ask because I can find all kinds of people telling me how wonderful the Mupo/Marzocchi combination is, but no one seems as stoked about their Kaifa/Matris pairing. All they do is talk about future potential, and how nice it is to have preload adjustability in the mean time.
Or, is it just that the original Marzocchi setup was so bad, that the improvement made by adding the Mupo kit registers on the rider as knight and day difference, while the Kaifa is less bad, and so registers as being only marginally improved by addition of the Matris (yes, yes...which rumor has it, can be dialed in)?
Thank you in advance for your well considered response. Experts?
Timothy St. John
This question is for the experts, or people who have 'fork' experience on the V7. As I have none yet, I'm given to wonder which components in a V7 front fork assembly are actually 'component' to it. When we are talking about different forks on this bike, Marzocchi or Kaifa, what are we actually talking about? Tube assemblies?
Why did Guzzi actually change the forks? Usually its simple economics; even if an improvement was sought in pursuit of performance upgrade. That being the case, is the Kaifa fork actually an improvement over the Marzocchi or was it just a cheaper option for Guzzi (with or without a performance upgrade)?
When Guzzi sourced 'forks' from either Marzocchi (pre 2013) or Kaifa, were they built for Guzzi to specific performance standards (and/or external dimensions) by the manufacturers, or simply sourced from existing supply by those manufacturers as being suitable by Guzzi?
Do the Marzocchi tubes fit the same triple clamps used on the Kaifa tubes? If so, is one better than the other as a starting point? Maybe the Mupo spring kit seems to work better simply because its in the Marzocchi tube, and the Matris is only in the Kaifa. Is the Marzocchi tube a significantly better place to start?
That being the case, how much do tubes cost? I ask because I can find all kinds of people telling me how wonderful the Mupo/Marzocchi combination is, but no one seems as stoked about their Kaifa/Matris pairing. All they do is talk about future potential, and how nice it is to have preload adjustability in the mean time.
Or, is it just that the original Marzocchi setup was so bad, that the improvement made by adding the Mupo kit registers on the rider as knight and day difference, while the Kaifa is less bad, and so registers as being only marginally improved by addition of the Matris (yes, yes...which rumor has it, can be dialed in)?
Thank you in advance for your well considered response. Experts?
Timothy St. John
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