#NewTyreDay: Specialized Cannibal rubbers revealed

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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#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…