Apparently Hope are bringing out spacer kits to convert their 135/142 to Boost.

I’d guess on a 6mm wider spacer on the disc side. Then spacer to move the disc back across to the right position.

Pyga do the same offset rear end thing.

But yes Hope are doing both a true boost hub and kits to convert your old Pro2 to fit boost frames. I would think the Bronsons are coming with real boost hubs.

No. It means the distance between the 11T and the disc need to increase.
The flanges could stay exactly where they are. Just like they do on loads of 150 downhill hubs and 145 tandem hubs.

Ahh. A bodge then.

Moving the chainline out enables the frame to be built wider. Simples. 🙂

Which is pointless unless you increase the flange spacing. Which is exactly what Boost is all about! 🙂 It’s not just a wider hub…..

Being cynical, it would of been too simple and not generate enough new part revenue by using an existing standard like a 83mm bottom bracket with 150mm hub spacing…

Somebody had to 🙂

Yes. But i bet that just like some 150 and 145 hubs they’ll not bother…
Also it’s not pointless if you want to run a 3″ tyre on a 45/50mm rim and still have a full selection of gears.

I would get the proper boost Hub from hope rather than the axle ands and the disc spacer that they do
Bollox to the crankset though it’s only 3mm works fine with a normal set up

My understanding too. But there’s a difference here- they’re doing a Boost hub but they’re also making adaptors so that people with existing hubs can carry on using them. Which is ace.

You could definitely adapt a 135 rear to boost sizes (or space brakes and mech in and out) but it’s more situational and depends on your other parts.

As enlightening as it is watching the bike industry scramble after the fact to turn b+ into something that needs a new frame, hubs etc, Boost can still **** off. But things like this will help a bit.

Are you sure they are 240’s, the DT Swiss website only mentions their heavier (and cheaper) 350 hubs coming in Boost width?

Brant – is it the 15th your revealing all?

Wouldn’t like my hubs to be cracking.

Boost fragments 650B wheel sets into pre-Boost 650B and post-Boost 650B. Picking up replacement wheels in a couple of years will be a minefield.

It’s a shame they didn’t introduce Boost and 650B at the same time and make an actual benefit to the whole wheel size affair.

Hope told me they were only doing the spacers etc for their front hubs, not rear hubs.

I’ve just had my rear LB rim re-built onto a new Hope Boost hub for £195 and will sell the old hub to recoup some of the outlay so won’t be too expensive.

Anyone want a nearly new black Pro 2 Evo 40t (32h) 12×142 hub with xd driver?!

The advent of boost sizing is now stopping me from buying a nice pair of wheels for myself for Christmas, as the chance of them fitting the next frame I go for is now somewhat reduced.

It’s a worry as the new frame I’m looking at is 142 x 12

How can you trust that the second generation of 650b wider rims and boost hubs won’t be the next chocolate teapots in 12 months time?

You can’t, of course. Don’t think for a second the big players in the bike industry will do right for you, it doesn’t enter the equation, they’re not your friends. At best they’re farmers and we’re the herd but increasingly they act like hunters who know there’s enough animals that they don’t need to worry about whether they kill too many or chase some off, and if they do they can always just fight the other hunters.

If they can think of a clever way to make your bike outdated, they will do it. Churn is here to stay, it’s proven its value to them and as a punter there’s no managing it, and no predicting it, it wouldn’t be effective churn if you could see it coming. All you can do is mitigate the ill effects.

I don’t think the big players have ever cared much for those of us who want to move kit from frame to frame. They’d much rather we bought a whole bike (and replaced it every year or two).

It’s the smaller players I feel for. What is a relatively small outfit (like Cotic, for example) supposed to do? Some customers will want Boost compatible frames, others will be vehemently opposed to them and they can’t really afford to stock both.