What the Pro’s Ride: Sam Hill’s Iron Horse Sunday
Sam Hill’s 2008 Race Bike
Sam Hill looks poised to be on point again this year on the downhill WC circuit. It should be a great season. Inside are some spy shots of his 2008 race bike that Stefano sent us from the Val Di Sole Worlds Test Event where Hill dominated the Pro field by 5.18s. Tons of prototype goodies on board the Blackbox equipped bikes this past weekend and Hill’s bike was no exception.
Sam Hill’s 2008 Race bike with the BlackBox Boxxer on board (click to enlarge)
Sam Hill’s 2008 Race bike (click to enlarge)
Sam Hill’s 2008 Race bike (click to enlarge)
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What exactly do the blackbox components mean? They are some kind of prototypes from Sram or something?
the blackbox fork on his bike seems to have 40mm stanchions and the motion control seem to be the one on the totems
38mm is what i’ve been hearing. I’m sure something official will come out soon enough.
Blackbox is just Sram’s test-phase so to speak. Its where parts are born/tested before they become consumer models. Trickle down effect pretty much.
35mm is the rumers…
Finally some large double crown fork! I ride totem but this one will be differently the suspension I´am waiting for. And the quick release too.
It doesnt quite look like 40, more like 38.
The damper definitely looks like the Mission Control damper system - which I really like.
Isn’t it 36mm like the Lyric?
The lyrik is 35mm.
I saw these forks in person at santa cruz on Jugz a few weekends back before sea otter. They for sure aren’t 40mm, but anything looks like a toy under rennie. To me it looked like 35mm, it would also make sense b/c rockshox has lots of problems with they bigger seals….
these are definately no more than 35mm… new 888 are 38mm a they look much more beefier than this. I like it, 35 is fine by me. can’t wait to get my hands on one…
Somebody mentioned a press release on Wednesday, is that just rumors?
Lets see if they can keep the 6.2lbs or maybe
ligther?
as mention above 38mm might be the one for the new rs bb fork…..anymore spy shots of the fork?
Few more: http://www.sicklines.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/748
The bike also has avid’s new brake - the Elixir.
38 mm is correct as posted on trenscend mag.com finally testings is almost done, should be out soon.
35mm makes more sense. I’ll wait to hear what the official word is before saying for certain.
Littermag has some other spy pics, and confirmed through the creator of this new fork, it’s a 35mm stanchion air sprung fork
http://www.littermag.com/2008/news/newsarticle.php?newsID=1134
finally rockshox decided to experiment with a normal axle on the boxxer and not the pile of poo Maxle DH!!!…normal maxle would be great on the boxxer
how much does it cost?