What the Pro’s Ride: Sam Hill’s Iron Horse Sunday
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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)
May 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
What exactly do the blackbox components mean? They are some kind of prototypes from Sram or something?
May 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am
the blackbox fork on his bike seems to have 40mm stanchions and the motion control seem to be the one on the totems
May 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am
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.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:37 am
35mm is the rumers…
May 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am
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.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:56 am
It doesnt quite look like 40, more like 38.
The damper definitely looks like the Mission Control damper system - which I really like.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Isn’t it 36mm like the Lyric?
May 5th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
The lyrik is 35mm.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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….
May 5th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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…
May 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Somebody mentioned a press release on Wednesday, is that just rumors?
May 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Lets see if they can keep the 6.2lbs or maybe
ligther?
May 5th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
as mention above 38mm might be the one for the new rs bb fork…..anymore spy shots of the fork?
May 5th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Few more: http://www.sicklines.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/748
May 6th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
The bike also has avid’s new brake - the Elixir.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
38 mm is correct as posted on trenscend mag.com finally testings is almost done, should be out soon.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
35mm makes more sense. I’ll wait to hear what the official word is before saying for certain.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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
May 8th, 2008 at 12:45 am
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