2025 Marzocchi Bomber Z1 and Z2 First Look

The Marzocchi Bomber Z1 and Z2 have become familiar faces out on the trail, and they’re both getting some updates for 2025 and beyond. Both the Z1 and Z2 have earned a great reputation as forks that punch above their weight, outperforming more expensive forks and offering a dependable and hasslefree ride. The ease of setup and low price have always made both of these forks easy to recommend, and this new iteration is no different. Costing just $479 and $629, both of these forks cost about half as much as the new Fox Factory and RockShox Ultimate level options out there, so let’s check out exactly what’s changed from the previous model to the 2025 model year forks.

On the redesigned lowers of the 2025 Bomber Z1, you’ll find lower leg bypass channels that look like veins running up the back of the lowers and allow oil to travel to both sides of your bushings to keep everything lubricated and running smooth as the day you got it. Travel is adjustable between 140 and 170mm in 10mm increments by swapping out the air spring, just like on most other forks. As an authorized Fox Service Center, that’s something we offer here at The Lost Co, so if you order a Z1 from us we’ll happily switch the air spring out free of charge. To tune the air spring, you can use volume spacers to make the fork more or less progressive, and on the coil version you can swap out the coil itself to make the fork more or less stiff. The 29 version comes in 44mm offset and the 27.5 version uses 37mm offset.

The biggest change to the Marzocchi Z1 is the switch from the GRIP damper to the Rail 2.0 damper. The GRIP damper was beloved for its easy adjustability and simple setup with just the single compression dial on top and rebound knob on the bottom, and the Rail 2.0 damper offers the exact same adjustments. There’s an infinitely adjustable sweep style compression adjustment to control the open bath damper, and a low speed rebound knob on the bottom to control the return speed of the fork. Combined with the adjustability of the air spring, there’s plenty of adjustment to dial in this fork, but not too much so that it gets over complicated. In order to bring the price down from $729 to $579 for the air version, the Rail 2.0 damper is technically a slight downgrade in performance, but Marzocchi is making the Z1 more of a budget fork than the performance fork the previous generation was. With the new Super Z in the lineup, that fork takes the reins as the hard charging high performance Marzocchi single crown fork.

The Z2 will be right at home on any cross country bike, trail bike, or downcountry bike, and is a welcome spec choice on entry level bikes that still offers tons of performance. Not only that, the price of the Bomber Z2 is actually coming down from $519 to $479, a rare occurence when a product gets a performance upgrade. Considering how much we praised the previous Z2 for its incredible value for performance, it’s pretty clear that this new Z2 is an even better value proposition. We can’t wait to get one on the front of one our bikes to get a better understanding of how these perform out on the trail!

Both the Marzocchi Bomber Z1 and Z2 are easy to recommend at just $629 and $479 and their impressive performance. Covering everything from xc bikes to enduro bikes, these two forks offer amazing range and just about every rider looking for a budget performance fork. Plus, with both red and black options for both forks, every rider is definitely going to be able to get something that looks good bolted to the front of their rig.

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