Pro's Bikes: Sam Hill's World Champ Bike

Nestling quietly in the Specialized booth were several bikes showing what a good season Specialized had this year – there was Contador and Andy Schleck’s Tour bikes and this one: Sam Hill’s World Championship winning bike.

Very bright...

Looks like a stripped down XO brake, but these pro racers get all sorts of trick stuff.

In case he forgets

Trick Black(box) sliders - wonder if the full-travel O-ring has been moved since the World Champs?

No sign of any moto-foam or similar hop-ups that graced Hill's Iron Horse

Blackbox DH cranks - which will soon become available.

Forget 30 speed - Hill runs 1 x 6!

Trick (and now production) SDG saddle for extreme grip (and minimal comfort - it keeps you pedaling...)

Everyone needs some matching casual/podium shoes eh? (Not necessarily Sam Hill's...) 😉

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (7)

1961Bikie1961Bikie September 26, 2010 at 6:06 pm

Like the shoes – though not in yellow thanks.

alal September 26, 2010 at 6:55 pm

I suspect the O-ring is not set there from the World Champs, since the bike on show had mud on it “from Socal rather than Mont Ste. Anne”. Marketing hey, you can’t trust it.

twinklydavetwinklydave September 26, 2010 at 7:59 pm

How slack are those angles?!

(no, really, how slack are the angles on that?)

sssimonsssimon September 27, 2010 at 2:17 pm

custom 9tooth cog cassette/freehub body type thing on there too

1969pedalpusher1969pedalpusher September 27, 2010 at 7:27 pm

You can order those custom engraved ODI lock-ons, but only from the US. I nearly got a set but couldn’t think of anything more imaginative than “left” and “right” to inscribe them with…

CaptainFlashheartCaptainFlashheart September 27, 2010 at 7:45 pm

WTF are those shoes? Boa on a flat pedal shoe? Overkill!

kaesaekaesae September 28, 2010 at 8:06 pm

I want! gimme!!!