Possible stupid question here, but who builds the hope hoops you can buy as complete wheels?
Are they all built by hope themselves in house, or is it a third party? And are they built by a machine, or by hand?

Just wondering if there’s a master wheel-builder sat in barnoldswick, knocking hoops out all day every day. Or if they’re assembled by others overseas.

I may be wrong but I was told they are made by machine in the hope factory (in the UK I assume)

The Hope Hoops Machine

Machine assembled then hand finished in-house at Hope.

Thanks – excellent link jam1e.

Factory Visit: Hope Technology

Brother-in-law is the spoke key monkey in the last PIC.

Ace, seen that before but was good to see again taking more notice of the wheel building process.

Great machine