A couple of new things from Hope were in evidence at Core this year, and both of them were extremely interesting…
Hope Cassette
Hope’s cassette has been in development for a while. It’ll be available in three flavours, 10-44, 10-40 and a DH setup. The higher seven gears are machined from steel billet, and the lower four gears are machined from aluminium and then hard anodized.
It sits on Hope hubs using a special shortened freehub body. You can buy new hubs with the shorter freehub on for the same price, or you can retrofit a shorter freehub to existing Hope Pro4 and Pro2 Evo hubs. It’ll cost you £175 as a standalone, or a cassette and freehub will cost £225. The DH cassette will cost £150. Availability is the end of April.
Carbon Seatpost
A complete departure for Hope, this – they’ve never really focussed on carbon before, but here’s Hope’s new carbon seatpost!
Four years in development, it’s light – the 27.2 post weighs in at 195g in a 350mm length (other diameters are available), and it uses 24 pieces in manufacture. So it’s a pretty labour intensive thing to make.
Here’s the mould. Interestingly, we’re told that the carbon is woven in the North in old cotton mills, which is pretty cool. The inside of the tube is free from burrs and other imperfections. It’ll be available from £130, and it’ll come with Hope’s standard 12 month warranty.
More details from Hope
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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS
Cheaper than a SRAM cassette and associated driver.
Just take my money now, all of it, take it.
I like the provision of a 10 sprocket, but this stuffs consumable, it’ll need replacing in 6 months and with an XT equivelent costing £70 – I think only the component snobs will commit.
It’s only been five years!
As for the 10T – just how much time do you spend spun out in the 11T of your current cassette? I spend far more time on the dinner plate and the middle bits than spinning out 42 x 11T, so I reckon it’ll be fine
Crazy ! Another new free hub. Why didn’t they just make it fit the sram free hub then it would of been a cheaper alternative to sram
“Hope’s standard 12 month warranty.”
err, seem to shouting about a warranty at least half as short as anybody else’s?
How does that work statutory rights, aren’t they longer?
Statutory rights are 12 months anyway