• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Marzocchi has closed it's doors.

the restructure of GG would have only worked if they got the investors....and they did not....so the bankrupcy thing turned on again for good.
lame is right
 
I expect other suspension supplier to buy the designs of Marzocchi and use that as leverage to get contracts with other OEM manufacturers. For example MV Agusta uses Marzocchi for almost all their front suspension. If Öhlins, WP, Showa, Reiger, Hyperpro, etc, can offer the exact same ones as MV used in the past except with a different nametag then it is an easy deal.

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
I could see someone like Sherco or MV Agusta stepping in and buying them to have control over their own suspension, similar to how KTM bought WP years back.
 
Auto5guy said:
I could see someone like Sherco or MV Agusta stepping in and buying them to have control over their own suspension, similar to how KTM bought WP years back.
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Both don't have enough money I think. Small Italian factories with big goals. However they are not large enough yet.
 
How about Beta, TM, AJP, Ducati? If they or someone like them could get some backing it would be a smart move. There's no denying that owning its suspension supplier was profitable for KTM.
 
Auto5guy said:
How about Beta, TM, AJP, Ducati? If they or someone like them could get some backing it would be a smart move. There's no denying that owning its suspension supplier was profitable for KTM.
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Beta, TM, AJP: not enough money. Ducati might be a possibility. However I don't think they would get the approval from the Volkswagen Group. KTM has a better position. They are very independent.

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
Keep in mind KTM may own the WP group. They are their suspension supplier but WP also makes all their frames and radiators and probably a few more tidbits we aren't aware of.

Marzocchi had their hands in a large production base of suspension components for expensive Mountain bicycles as well. There parts inventory needed to be huge to be able to do this, I would imagine.
 
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