Monster Energy Specialized at World Cup in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - photo by fraserbritton

Monster Energy Specialized

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Category: DH Racing
Date Posted: Apr 19, 2011 at 22:24
Apr 19, 2011
Location: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Trail: World Cup
Riders: Monster Energy Specialized
Articles: First Look Monster-Specialized Team Kit and Troy Brosnan Bio

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Camera

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Lens

EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM

Shutter Speed

1/250

Aperture

4.0

Focal Length

70.0 mm

ISO Speed

160

Date

2011:04:19

Time

05:21:18

Fraser Britton

59 Comments

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Mountain-Manic (Apr 19, 2011 at 23:06)

Clones... Specialized is building an army...

GnU-pArK-pIcKlE (Apr 19, 2011 at 23:13)

Be afraid. Very afraid! theyre coming for you

16 0

epic09 (Apr 20, 2011 at 2:25)

thats a quick army

13 28

heavymetal45 (Apr 20, 2011 at 17:51) (Below Threshold)

Good thing there good and fast cause they look ghey!

11 2

epic09 (Apr 20, 2011 at 17:56)

I don't know, I don't really like the kit seems a bit busy but the bikes and helmets and goggles are looking mint

sessionman123abc (Apr 20, 2011 at 19:25)

Thats soooooo fresh!

3 13

cyberhawk (Apr 26, 2011 at 5:10) (Below Threshold)

clones..? clowns.. ?

ktmracing14 (May 1, 2011 at 12:13)

Its the three musketeers

27 2

PlumStick13-Magnus (Apr 19, 2011 at 23:33)

oh look at sam, hes like "f*ck this, im too cool to look at the camera!"

tomer4eva (Apr 20, 2011 at 2:44)

I thought Sam's Boxxer's stances were black..
Werent they?

TomMurphy (Apr 20, 2011 at 8:08)

who cares they looks sick no matter what

jdotr (Apr 20, 2011 at 13:39)

they were but there coated in the new Keronite finish instead now i think???

chazer (Apr 20, 2011 at 14:49)

its his cool pose, he's breaking out the 'hand on hip' pose!

savmeister (Apr 21, 2011 at 5:42)

keronite is paint on the lowers !!!

jdotr (Apr 21, 2011 at 11:16)

ahh cool cheers

briandiener (Apr 21, 2011 at 21:53)

i couldnt even tell which one was sam... fkin identical

PlumStick13-Magnus (Apr 21, 2011 at 23:25)

brain, tell by the goggles. sam rides spy. brendan is smith, and you can tell which one is troy cos hes a dwarf

Simon-Seeholzer (Aug 8, 2012 at 4:58)

the black coat is called dlc and it wasn't invented at that point

savmeister (Aug 8, 2012 at 6:42)

Yes it was brendan & sam were running black stantions in 2010

17 1

s0undw0rks (Apr 19, 2011 at 22:43)

the 3 muskiteres.

seraph (Apr 20, 2011 at 16:30)

Musketeers?

epic09 (Apr 20, 2011 at 21:19)

pun with "kit" ha

scottchris (Apr 20, 2011 at 2:06)

Sam's helmet colours are fucking epic.....if they make that design of D3 for production i sure will buy it....

b4life (Apr 20, 2011 at 5:38)

To us this picture is unreaal! to people driving by them and have no knowledge in biking probably think theyre gay...LOL

hukta-FLATZ (Apr 20, 2011 at 0:01)

no DLC coating or keronite??

ORgrown420 (Apr 20, 2011 at 9:51)

yeah thats kinda strange.. looks like the DLC wasnt very effective, i wonder if they are gonna try anything else to compete w/ kashima coating, keronite didnt match there bike, these guys gotta look fly haha idk

crashin (Apr 20, 2011 at 17:13)

Sam Hill for the win this year please.

stewy34 (Jun 1, 2011 at 23:02)

pretty please

Banan725135650 (Apr 20, 2011 at 4:35)

Dream team

luismarquesdh (Apr 20, 2011 at 5:03)

where is the new demo8 carbon?

MiguelCosta28 (Apr 20, 2011 at 9:53)

carbon ?

luismarquesdh (Apr 20, 2011 at 10:02)

Carbon yes, I read a web site that sam hill was testing a prototype of a carbon demo8,but i don´t know if it was lie or truth

mrpark (Apr 20, 2011 at 10:46)

My sources also tell me a carbon demo is coming... If I had to guess I'd bet it shows up mid/late WC season just like the new Demo last year.

luismarquesdh (Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21)

I agree with you, but last year showed in the first race in Maribor,this year ... the bike looks the same

MiguelCosta28 (Apr 21, 2011 at 8:26)

Could have created just the demo carbon .

schwing (Apr 22, 2011 at 23:11)

that was an april fools joke on twitter

cosmic-vomit (Apr 20, 2011 at 4:49)

wheres your leatt brace SAM!!!

rossyboi (Apr 20, 2011 at 8:44)

that is the sickest race kit i have ever seen !!!!!

hukta-FLATZ (Apr 20, 2011 at 16:34)

i spot the renthal lock on kevlar grips aswell

savmeister (Apr 21, 2011 at 5:45)

but renthal dont make lockons (yet) & its got ODI on the end cap !!!!

hukta-FLATZ (Apr 21, 2011 at 17:25)

its got renthal on the end cap if you look at the dirt mag bike check, but they will still be made by odi jst like lizard skins are.

dragan-diogoboaventura (Apr 22, 2011 at 4:59)

yap Flatz u are right...

aflo661 (May 1, 2011 at 7:30)

I spot wheels, yep those are definately wheels.

lightsout (Apr 21, 2011 at 12:21)

Those are really nice jerseys!

ceccofreeride (Apr 22, 2011 at 10:40)

DIVISE SPETTACOLARI!!!!!!!!!!!! DA PAURA!!!!!

konyko (Apr 20, 2011 at 2:28)

ALIENS!!! :-o

MiguelCosta28 (Apr 20, 2011 at 4:16)

sick :o

tolodela (Apr 20, 2011 at 5:53)

f**kin awesome =o
=D

mtbcasile (Apr 20, 2011 at 9:45)

what bars are those

suicidedh711 (Apr 20, 2011 at 9:48)

renthal fat boy

basmajor (Apr 20, 2011 at 11:56)

*FatBar not fat boy!

suicidedh711 (Apr 21, 2011 at 8:34)

you're right it's the funn bars that are fat boy sorry

arczii (Apr 20, 2011 at 21:36)

Aliens

northwestripper (Jun 26, 2011 at 20:36)

TRYHARDS!!!

rhamman (Mar 15, 2012 at 14:19)

almost had a seizure

Chamakazi (Apr 20, 2011 at 3:51)

Specialized has given up on the black stanchions?

INS4N3 (Apr 20, 2011 at 4:54)

The DLC Stanchions were introduced by SRAM/RS not by Specialized, guess they are using the new Keronite(?) version now.

Chamakazi (Apr 20, 2011 at 6:39)

I was referring to Specialized as the whole team, I should have been more specific. Keronite is a coating for the lowers, not the stanchions, so it wouldn't affect stanchion colour.

betterthansx (Apr 20, 2011 at 12:13)

They were saying the black stanchions were wearing down too quick, and causing a more than wanted amount of heat and friction so they ditched it. It was something new that they wanted to try but didn't work out...whole reason for R&D