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The Buttery Brothers (explanation below), Loic Bruni and Finn Iles, have been riding this new Specialized Cannibal gravity tyre.
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By ben_haworth
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https://singletrackworld.com/2022/05/newtyreday-specialized-cannibal-rubbers-revealed/
They sure do know how to name their tyres stupid.
Slaughter, butcher, cannibal, murder, blood bath? Who comes up with these?
The only ones I can use are Ground controls.
They are daft names. I think it runs back to Sam Hill in some way? The Butcher and Hillbilly were both signature tyres for him, Hillbilly's obvious but I don't know where Slaughter came from.
It looks a lot like the Purgatory no?
Specialized like to recycle their names - they had a cannibal back in the early nineties, so whatever you think of the choice, it kind of has heritage
DHR II x DHF anyone? L shaped side knobs, oblong center siped knobs. With the Rubber Queen's asymetrical staggering of the side knobs - which is a bad idea, it means they don't hook up predictably when leant over.
Swing and a miss for me.
Loic and Finn have big off's !!!!
There's old school heritage in the name, @Auer Westinson - the Cannibal was a tyre Spesh did in the mid-1990s...