Hi,
After trashing the rim on a cheap stock wheel at the weekend I'm trying to decide whether to buy a new Hope wheel or try fitting a boost conversion kit to a Hope rear wheel I currently have sat in the loft. I'm particularly interested to hear if you've experienced more chain suck as a result of the chainline the more inboard position of the cassette will cause or if you've had any issues with brake calliper alignment?
If you've fitted one of these kits to your hub and ran it in a boost frame, what has your experience with it been?
Cheers
VC
I converted a rear wheel using a wolf tooth kit, I chose that over the hope kit because the hope kit didn't put the cassette in the right position. But as far as using a converted wheel, zero issues, ran it for years.
No problems for the last 3 years.
Yes it does leave your cassette in a non-boost chainline position, but the cranks I'm running are non-boost anyway, so it's all good.
No issues with brake alignment either - why should it make any difference?
No problems on my hardtail.
Didn't realise my cassette was wrong - but I'm using non-boost cranks.
Ran a non boost rear wheel with boost adaptors for 3 years no trouble.
It was two simple washers on either side of the hub, a spacer for the disk and some longer rotor bolts.
Cool, thanks for the feedback.
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5+ years here, initially with the symmetrical spacers then I made an offset set out of a normal driveside spacer and another 3mm taped to the hope boost kit disc side (i.e. like the wolftooth kit). Both fine.
That’s on a raceface crank that i think is on a chainline somewhere in between normal and boost.
If it makes the choice the asymmetric boost should build a more balanced wheel- I did a front hub that way and despite being on a light rim (crest) and spokes it was the easiest wheel I’ve ever built and it’s been absolutely flawless for years.
Used the Hope kit on an Aeris 120 and had an absolute bastard of a time trying to get Shimano 12sp shifting indexing right. Swapped to a generic kit that didn't space the drive side and got it Bob on almost immediately. I suspect there are some cases where the toffees of both things just don't overlap. In arm to be the only one that's had this though!