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  • Coloured Hope Hubs
  • prezet
    Free Member

    Going to be ordering a new set of wheels today (Flow Ex/Pro 2) for my Covert. And can’t decide on the blue hubs or stick to black? It’ll be going on this:

    What do the collective blingsters think?

    MTB-Rob
    Free Member

    Blue with blue rotors…. 😉

    davosaurusrex
    Full Member

    In true STW fashion I vote gold!

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    Gold.

    But of your choices, black.

    davosaurusrex
    Full Member

    Or silver with blue rotors?

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Purple and get the bearing covers on the frame done to match 🙂

    messiah
    Free Member

    Spend the money on a Reverb.

    Blue or Silver for the hubs.

    akira
    Full Member

    Gunsmoke, or red.
    But if not then black.

    prezet
    Free Member

    Hmmm gunsmoke might work! Hadn’t thought of that.

    Reverb is already on there. This is a bit of an old pic.

    HermanShake
    Free Member

    Not gold, it’s the bike equivalent of this:

    Go blue, but only if you’re prepared to do your clamp, rotors & chainring.

    Raw/silver would look good too. Only go purple if you’re willing to go for ironic flat bars and stubby endz.

    messiah
    Free Member

    If you go Blue do the hubs only… do not do the rotors or anything else 👿

    Less is more 😉

    njee20
    Free Member

    If you go Blue do the hubs only… do not do the rotors or anything else

    This, blue would be good, but easily over done.

    core
    Full Member

    Hope Gold is very shiny, not a fan.

    zerocool
    Full Member

    The Hope Blue goes well with the Blue bearing covers already on the bike (have checked for our future upgrades)

    chambord
    Free Member

    You’re clearly mad if you buy new hope hubs and don’t get purple.

    prezet
    Free Member

    If you go Blue do the hubs only… do not do the rotors or anything else

    This was the plan. I already have black rotors waiting. But I have a feeling even blue hubs might feel a bit much. The alternative is to replace the Stans rim stickers with blue ones. A bit like this:

    dirtyrider
    Free Member

    Black

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Don’t get alloy nipples.

    you will regret it.

    prezet
    Free Member

    No, no, no alloy nipples… just thinking either black or blue hub (possibly with blue stickers).

    creedy
    Free Member

    Tbh once on the bike you don’t really notice the colour of the rotors. I have blue and they actually didn’t stand out as much as I’d thought they would. I also have matched seat clamp and head doctor. But looking at your bike blue would match up well with the frame and existing pivots.

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    I always prefer blue, but the dominant colour on your bike is the gold on the forks, so you have to match that and go for gold.

    Or can you get your fork legs re-anodised?

    prezet
    Free Member

    Or can you get your fork legs re-anodised?

    I’ve got some spare black car spray paint… will that do?

    messiah
    Free Member

    Do not try and colour match with Kashima.

    mkidley
    Free Member

    I’m all about the Gunmetal personally.

    plus-one
    Full Member

    I’m a recovering colour matching whore !!!! Spent fortunes over the years(yes it is part of the fun) maybe now older wiser/less money I go for silver/black hubs as easier to fit with whichever new bike you buy which we all know happens very often 😉

    makecoldplayhistory
    Free Member

    Another vote for Gold.

    However, blue’s better than black. It’ll go nicely with the pivot bolts and lockout on the forks.

    godzilla
    Free Member

    Haven’t Hope discontinued gold on the 40t Evos?
    Keep em black, keep it classy.

    alandavidpetrie79
    Free Member

    Brown?

    Bumsmoke I believe……..

    fathomer
    Full Member

    Blue, and ditch the rim stickers altogether.

    jaffejoffer
    Free Member

    black. you could well be wanting to put your new wheels on a different frame at some point.

    shortcut
    Full Member

    Purple.

    nicko74
    Full Member

    Blue. Most rides you’ll look at it and think “cool”.
    Plus, on the man maths side, when you come to sell the wheels there are fewer sets around with blue hubs (I know, I tried buying some), so you can keep the price higher.

    But as above, it’s a slippery slope. Then you’ll want to get the rotors to match, plus seat clamp, grip collars etc.

    edit: of course you sohuld go for the “proper” option of Green… 😉

    wiggles
    Free Member

    Gunsmoke, they are bluish grey anyway

    alandavidpetrie79
    Free Member

    I had red hubs & red floating rotors, sold the rotors because the red was a different shade even though they were both beand new…..

    bikeryder85
    Free Member

    I have silver hubs, black everything else. Love them. Would show you a picture but I’m on the work computer and don’t have my pics.

    oxym0r0n
    Full Member

    Black with blue rim stickerers 😀

    hebdencyclist
    Free Member

    Purple

    ritchic
    Free Member

    Yeah blue. And they have stopped doing gold apparently as it’s inconsistent

    damascus
    Free Member

    Blue, they will be faster than black but not as fast as red.

    hebdencyclist
    Free Member

    When I bought my white Orange 5 I fantasized about tricking it out with red bits.

    But then I remembered I’m not 12 🙂

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