If anybody is interested there is a great photo of the hope cable/hydro converter on Pinkbike.

Looks like a very well designed and compact solution – doesnt look gash either.

Will be very interested in this when it comes out as a replacement for my bb7s

oooh…

discs are coming roadies!

you hear?

It won’t be long till someone comes out with hydraulic levers for STis, rather than having a bodge-job adaptor.

doesnt look gash either

debatable.

Proper hydro levers please not naff converters – not that I’m in a rush for road/cx discs.

As ‘bodge jobs’ go I think it looks great – I run Campag Ergo levers so I doubt they will ever release a hydro lever so this looks like a great solution for me.

the TRP one looks quite good too;

I’m thinking that the under-stem adapter rotates with the bars, in which case I see a lot of forthcoming frame damage caused by being hit with a big chunk of machined aluminium.

I suspect the Hope solution is runnign so many spacers to give top tube clearance but the hoses might be a problem.

surprised hope didn’t do somethign more integrated with the stem, tbh.

hmmm, integrate it into a stem face-plate, like they used to do (or still do?) with batteries?

Can’t see the first pic, are they doing proper light calipers?

No Al – it’s just another cable-hydro bodge. No pic of the calipers.

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I like the solution – looks nice, clean.

@Druidh – I’m sure these headsets with internal bump-stops will become a lot more popular then…

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/08/bikes-and-tech/eurobike-day-one-the-big-brands-can-wait_190644/attachment/cheap-insurance

Can’t really see the point. Surely shimano will be coming out with hydraulic levers next year? This probably won’t even be in the shops by then!

Loads more High Res photos on the Hope site – http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemID=SPG328

and more details here:

http://www.hopetech.com/webtop/modules/_repository/documents/Eurobike2011web.pdf

Will be out by the end of the year 😀

Goes off to add to the Christmas list…………….