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Specialized Bikes Now At The Camp of Champions

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Since time began it seems like Specialized has always had one of the most insane bikes in the DH world. Ever since one of our snowboard coaches, Shaun Palmer rode them and did pretty well on them, we've wanted one. Sam Hill is fast, on Specialized he's even faster. One thing we always wanted at COC, and I'm sure our campers wanted as well, was to have Demo 8's available to ride in our demo fleet. For 2011 we will now have Specialized Demo 8's and Gord Calder our Ops Manager is losing his mind due to being over stoked, his screen saver changed the second we got the "we're in" from Specialized. We will be building the Demo 8 frames up with our usual COC World Cup caliber build with the help of our sponsors like Straitline, Spank, RaceFace, Maxxis, Chromag, Formula, X-Fusion, Elka and others.



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Two years of work

Gord Calder worked for two years to bring the Demo 8's into the COC fold, and as he puts it, "This is my dream bike. I figured if it's my dream bike, I'm pretty certain I'm not the only one that dreams of ripping the Demo 8 through the Whistler Bike Park all summer". We couldn't be happier to have Specialized on board for 2011. Usually I would add something about how stoked we are etc, but I think Gord has pretty much covered that. It's going to be an amazing summer, our bike fleet just keeps getting sicker, and the reasons you have for not being out here just keep getting fewer.



Specialized Camp of Champions Demo 8 Build



Fork: Rock Shox Boxxer Team



Shock: X-Fusion Vector HLR

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Shock: Elka Stage 5 Coil Shock

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Shock: Fox DHX RC4 Coil

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Pedals: Straitline

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Bar Ends: Straitline

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Chain Guide: Straitline Silent Guide

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Stem: Straitline Zero Rise Boxxer Stem 50mm

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Headset Spacers: Straitline

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Cranks: Race Face Atlas FR

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Bars: Atlas FR Riser bars

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Bars: Chromag FUBAR OSX Bars

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Bars: Spank Spike 777 EVO

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Rims: Spank Spike 35AL Rims 32 Hole

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Hubs: Hadley



Seat Post: Race Face Evolve

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Chain Ring: Race Face DH

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Seat: Chromag Custom COC Collabo print

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Tires: Maxxis Minion

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Oil: Red Line Synthetic Oils



Shifter: Sram X9



Derailleur: Sram X9



Chain: Sram



Cassette: Sram PG970



Grips: ODI With Custom COC laser etching

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Spokes: DT Swiss Competition



Headset: Cane Creek



Various: Pedros



The Camp of Champions runs from June 24th through the end of July 2011. If you want to experience the best week of your life riding with some of the top pro riders as your coaches as well as be riding some of the best bikes on earth, check out www.campofchampions.com for all the details. Join our fan page on Facebook for another chance to win a session for 2011.



See you this summer

Ken Achenbach

Camp Founder/Owner/Director









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