Hope was at Core Bike with a selection of new products that, for the most part, had very little machined aluminium and no hydraulic oil. And, in a surprise move, it was even showing products that weren’t made 100% in Barnoldswick.
Before the ‘Made in Britain’ fans swoon, Hope is the first to admit that, while it makes CNC widgets very, very well, it doesn’t have the knowhow, or tooling for making handlebars (or not ones that would be any good, anyway!). It’s also not the first time that it has outsourced components and expertise. It’s carbon fibre brake levers have been made offshore since their inception. With that topic covered, let’s look at what’s new from Hope Technology.
The Techbar is a light, but strong, downhill and hard trail use riser bar. Available in three rises, it features a beefy 31.8mm centre section that tapers quickly once past the bends so that there’s plenty of room for your controls – especially if you use one of Hope’s Tech levers, which take up inordinate amounts of handlebar real estate.
Hope also showed its new grips. Coming in black or clear, the locking collars are first CNC machined by Hope, then sent to someone else in the UK to have the rubber moulded over the top of them, leaving a locking grip, but without hard collars that some riders can find annoying.
Hope also has a bottom bracket solution for press-fit BB owners. This ‘Press Fit 41’ BB will work with any normal 24mm crank (Shimano, Race Face…) and has two ‘cups’ that thread together. The bearings are integrated into the collar, so that’s your job done.
Hope Hoops are proving more and more popular, all still built in-house. Hope now offers the Stan’s Arch EX rim and will soon be offering a 650B version (once the spokes turn up…)
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Hope press fit BB – hallelujah!
Hallelujah indeed! I need availability dates for all of this!!!
Add me to the hallelujah chorus. A bottom bracket for the Zesty with a life expectancy better than that of the packed lunch in my back pack. Result.
Hope press fit bottom bracket – Yey 😉
Won’t fit into a Commencal Meta AM so I’m still stuck with a Shimano DuraAce – Booo 🙁
iain1775 why won’t it fit in a Meta AM?
Usual hope price point expected?
My press fit BB30 has about a month left on it, two at a push. I WILL have that Hope BB. Anyone know when it’s available ?
You wont excitable cause it’s bb92 not bb30 😉
Kuco – needs one without the inner flangey bit because of a frame protrusion into the BB shell
(I mean the flange the inner tube presses into not the actual centre tube)
Distance markings, woohooo! Why it’s taken so long for someone to do them god only knows but that’s a bog gold star to Hope.
*big
Okay thanks.
iain1775. Yes I will have it cus it turns out I don’t know my BB from my bloody elbow and I have a Sram GXP Press Fit BB92, so should slot into my Zesty like a thing that slots in nicely !
Distance markings…. what’s wrong a tape measure?
Rubber over the locking collar…. just use one collar on the inside. My ODI’s have never slipped with just the inner collar fitted (I cut the lugs off the other end).
Hoops with 26 and 29 Arch EX are on the way to us, 650 is around 4 weeks off.
Pressfit BB and grips later this month, all being well…