MARA PRO

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Going big? Going Fast? Go Mara Pro

The Mara Pro range of rear suspension, characterized most obviously by its piggyback reservoir offers a performance and adjustability like you’ve never seen (or felt) before. Built different to perform differently, to perform flawlessly in accordance with your specific riding style or needs.

BUILT BETTER, BUILT DIFFERENT, BUILT FOR A DIFFERENT RIDE LIKE YOUVE NEVER FELT BEFORE

MARA PRO OVERVIEW

Rear Suspension to Render All Mountain, Enduro and DH feel highway smooth the Mara Pro is an air shock range that is built to exacting specifications, without cutting corners, to offer an unrivaled experience in the saddle. Its unique design premise is tangible and must be ridden to be fully appreciated.

The Mara Pro utilizes not only the most sophisticated materials in its construction but incorporates independent circuits/oil paths for compression, rebound and platform. While infinitely more complex to design and produce, the separate circuit design of the Mara Pro eliminates cross contamination, representing a unique solution in the market for absolute clean tuning. Leading the design with this concept and adding a long list of performance innovations ensure the most complete, reliable, tunable and customizable solution possible.

The independent oil flow path core design mates with technologies such as the King Can with Balance Groove design, a new piston geometry and a revised piggyback reservoir make for amazing advancements in an already top performing air shock.

“While all of the creature comforts built into the Mara Pro might sound complex, you don’t have to understand how it works to feel the amazing benefit the entire package represents in performance, tunability and consistency. Small bump compliance on par with what you’d expect from a coil shock yet with all the versatility and tunability you’d ever desire. Fantastic mid stroke support and progression to render your experience smooth and dialed over all terrain and any situation.“

While all of the creature comforts built into the Mara Pro might sound complex, you don't have to understand how it works to feel the amazing benefit the entire package represents in performance, tunability and consistency. Small bump compliance on par with what youd expect from a coil shock yet with all the versatility and tunability youd ever desire. Fantastic mid stroke support and progression to render your experience smooth and dialed over all terrain and any situation.

David Golay

The Mara Pro PB still features independently adjustable high- and low-speed compression and a rebound adjuster; the piston geometry and shim stack arrangement have been tweaked compared to the original version, but the overall layout is similar.”

Tyler Benedict

The New Mara Pro PB gets a new, more durable air piston architecture and are easy to tune with positive and negative volume spacers that need no special tools to install.”

Singletrack

After two months on the Mara, I’m happy to report I’m still not dead, and that this shock is, in fact, the life of the party.”

KING CAN - Max Volume for Suspension fit for a King

The King Can represents Manitou’s largest volume can to date and the new design includes an active pos/neg system we call Balance Groove Technology. This design allows positive and negative pressures to equalize, providing great small bump compliance in the early part of the shock stroke. Such a design allows for great small bump compliance regardless of rider size. Additionally, positive and negative air volumes can be easily adjusted by the rider at his or her home by adding or removing the included volume spacers, without the need of any proprietary tools. This adjustment follows the same principle as the IVA system in Manitou forks and represents a high degree of versatility and autonomy in adjustment for the rider.

Work/Party Mode - Work Hard, Party Smooth

The Mara Pro rear shock has two separate damping circuits that can be activated or bypassed by the Work / Party mode lever. Having two separate circuits allows the rider to have two no-compromise options, for climbing and descending. Work mode is a preset independent damping circuit designed for climbing. Party mode is an externally adjustable high and low speed compression circuit. It offers a large range of tuning for a variety of riders and conditions.

Short Reservoir - improved frame compatibility

The 61mm reservoir, together with the lower profile Work/Party lever were developed to ensure a greater range of compatibility for the highest number of frames possible. Bigger isn’t always better and in the case of the new reservoir, the smaller stance represents zero performance loss while ensuring a better fit with a larger selection of frames.

Improved Internals for an Improved Experience in the saddle

A new compression piston and updated shim stacks were designed in conjunction with the Gen 2 Balance Groove Air Cans. Together they provide improved small bump compliance along with support that can be tuned with the external compression adjusters and internal air volume adjustment.

DH Specific Model - Built for Discipline Specific Use

The Mara Pro PB brings forth a great deal of new design and tech but also ushers in a similar but separate model, specific to DH. The Mara Pro PB DH is based off of the exact same core build but removes the unnecessary Work/Party levers, eliminating the possibility for inadvertent actioning of platform. 67.5-75mm stroke lengths. Uses 70mm reservoir.

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Mezzer			Mezzer Pro, Expert, Comp		Mezzer Pro, Expert, Comp
MATTOC		Mattoc Pro, Expert, Comp	Mattoc Pro, Expert, Comp
R8		R8 Pro, Expert, Comp	R8 Pro, Expert, Comp
JUNIT	JUNIT 34 Pro, Expert, JUNIT 32 Comp
CIRCUS							Circus Pro, Expert, Comp
MASTODON				Mastodon Pro, Comp
MARKHOR		Markhor Pro, Expert, Comp	Markhor Pro, Expert, Comp
R7&Machete		R7 & Machete Pro, Expert, Comp	R7 & Machete Pro, Expert, Comp
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MARA IL PRO		Mara IL Pro	Mara IL Pro	Mara IL Pro	Mara IL Pro
MARA PRO IL XC		Mara Pro IL XC
ACE DEUCE REMOTE		Ace Deuce Remote	Ace Deuce Remote	Ace Deuce Remote	Ace Deuce Remote	Ace Deuce Remote
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