Hope had a whole bunch of new stuff to show here, including a cassette, Pro 4 hubs, and a prototype carbon handlebar. They’ve also started anodising things in a new colour, orange, which was mainly on display attached to an extremely blingy Santa Cruz Nomad.
This cassette is a wide range 10-44 with steel cogs paired to an aluminium carrier. It will require a special shortened freehub that Hope are making.The freehub wasn’t on show, but that’s some interesting detail on the keyways there…PRO 4 hub.Dished ring with a 3mm offset for Boost setups.Hope have also revised their discs with a new pattern.A selection of Pro 4 hubs, including the new orange.Pro 4’s have deeper flanges and slightly bigger bearings for more durability all round.
The new Hope Tech SD wheetsets come in 26 or 27.5. The new rim has a 28mm internal width. Rim weights, respectively, are 619 and 648g. Built wheels: 26 front 1025g, rear 1150g. 27.5 front 1064g, rear 1198g.
New wheelsets with wider rims.Ooh I love a good line of wheels, me.Prototype carbon bar.I wonder how easy is it to come by those stickers…I suddenly want some Irn Bru.How do you ride it? Gingerly!
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
If it wasn’t for that acid yellow and yellow spring combo…
Oh if only I could win large sums of money…..
Surely they should have used an Orange as a demo bike for this ginger kit!
If they make that carbon bar with those graphics……I will have to get one
Is love with metal normal?
The next bike project is coming together nicely….
Hope cassette? Won’t hold my breath.