Indy's were a little bit better than Ballistic, when the Ballistic elastomers melted first run down Thredbo I replaced them with Indy ones which kept the fork going until it got so sloppy I threw down serious coin on my first serious fork. It's still on the 'goose I rode last month and still feels buttery with one lifetime service about 5 years ago.
Quadra 5's were my first suspension fork and I thought they were the best thing ever. About 60mm of useable travel and even looked like Mag21's, well, without the gold finish. Swapped the Quadra's out for Manitou 4's which were pretty good with the upgraded spring and MCU kit over the standard elstomer stack.
My first 'real' forks were the White Brothers SC90's that were a huge upgrade compared to the MCU/elastomer forks and felt super. They were great. I thought the fork seals were specially designed to let in as much trail gunk as possible and they did it really well. That was their kyrptonite. Also had an Englund cartridge in it.
Suspension has came a very long way but I think we appreciated just about any cushion more BITD. Spolit for choice these days.
If a scaled up repro true to the original design but modernised was made it would be amazing. Has any other fork had the same coil oil system replicated in both legs since? As far as I know the system was way to expensive and similar results could be achieved much cheaper. @indica I think the early Jr T was the same system?
True, Marzocchi didn't have many misses and were easy to maintain. Coil and oil sure seems to make sense.
I still have Marzocchi MXC's on the Xizang and there is nothing much going on in there but an oil bath and low pressure air springs. Not sophisticated at all but works well enough if you fiddle with the air pressure and oil weights plus has bonus farty squelchy noises to enjoy
It is a pity that Marzocchi were borged by Fox but I saw somewhere that the Grip dampener was a Marzocchi design?