When you think of the biking company [b]Hope Technology,[/b] what do you think of?
Shiny.
Lovely sounding freehub 😀
Top quality yet not overly expensive bike bits what last for ages and ages and ages.
Oh, and Shiny. Definitely Shiny.
I really like the fact that there's a good chance of getting to talk to the big boss when I phone for tech support.
(hubs too loud)
British kit that's ace
Beatifully made-in-UK bits of kit that don't seem to work quite as well as they should.
Manufacturer of bike bits that fall apart.
past their best, average image, couple of solid parts and good ideas, british, over-hyped like orange as a company.
quality stuff at a good price and british too, which is a bonus
i cant imagine looking elsewhere for brakes or hubs
A shining example for all the other no-hoper's [really no pun intended] in the UK cycle manufacturer circles
Good Quality Kit, fair priced, bomb proof warranty (a very rare commodity these days), shiney, hubs that are still too quiet
Quality stuff that last for ages and looks good too. I've got loads of hope stuff and not one thing has failed. I cracked one of disc bolt holes on an XC Hub during a crash, they offered to replace the hub for free.
Carfted engineering in CNC delights 😉
also awesome 24hr race team
Genuine/nice people that make good bike bits but stand by their products and offer decent backup/support (so Ive heard)
Great Kit & Customer Service.
Shonky kit
Hubs that explode, qrs that barely work, seat post qrs that break and brakes that don't
The warranty dept is efficient because its so busy...
I like the philosophy of everything being repairable not disposable. That costs but IMO its worth it
Good kit with great customer service even out of warranty.
well made and serviceable bits designed, tested and made half an hour down the road.
Excellent quality kit with awesome after sales service. (Not that I've needed much of that cos everything I've used has been ace.)
nice folk who make lovely coffee
rubbish bearings in my new front hub
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Bike company. Buy some of their stuff and buy none of their other stuff. Not bothered at all about the whole 'British' part.
nice hubs and headsets, awful qr's and seat clamps. Incredibly iffy light connectors.
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Made (as opposed to just designed) in Britain.
Very well made, infinitely rebuildable products.
Great after sales service.
Local.
British engineering-led success story.
Best hubs I've ever used.
Good value handbuilt wheels.
Nice to have a colour choice for components.
[b]Negative:[/b]
Brakes overheat and lack power.
Seat collar and Axle QR's could be better.
Lights are a bit pricey.
The best Bottom brackets ever made> and they make them in shiny colours. unlike the chocolate ones made by shimano and FSA.
Brilliant home-grown components with unbeatable back up.
The best Bottom brackets ever made
I think you'll find the phil woods, and royce and far superior 😀
Like them alot, lovely looking kit and fantastic backup. Have started to stray a little and try others components after being a bit disappointed with 1 year bearing life in my rear proII and the tech x2s feeling abit underpowered.
Really looking forward to their cranksets coming out, I really hope they are good.
Tell you what Hope, how about making a decent uppy downy post? There is still a chance there to jump into a new market no one has properly cornered it yet!
To OP - you been reading MBUK this month? 🙂
Quality well engineered products. I've got their skewers and seatclamps on all my bikes. I've owned a few hubs and they're lovely. They last for years (only killed mine by backing my car over the wheel - oops!) and i'm a fat lad with high ambitions and crap abilities - mine have all taken a whooping. The brakes are good I've gone from O2 to M4 Mono and loved them both. I had to upgrade to Saint because I got a deal on them that I could not refuse.
I love the fact that they're made in Britain too. I can't say anything for the lights / BBs / stems as I've never owned them.
brakes - didn't you mean...
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Recently with my two year old M4s...When I go to the bike shed....
... I HOPE......
they haven't locked on again.....
BUT ABOUT EVERY TWO WEEKS THEY BLOODY HAVE.....
AND I'M B>>>>> pi^s??d ++f with them AAAAAA FFFFF Gain. That's with silicone lubricant etc.... Rebuild????? They weren't bloody cheap you know!!
I'd continue to buy their headsets though, never had a problem with them although I generaly don't use their headdoctors.... and...on balance...cos I know they ain't perfect...cracks above spoke holes etc..... their hubs aswell, cos they are better than the incredible undoing shimano and the leter in of as much water as possible DTs.
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Innovative, British, quality company. Great customer support. Nicely made, quality parts, built to last.
Plus, me dog:
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A good compromise between service life, backup, re-building, eco-friendly (made in UK), performance, looks and price. I just wish that their bearings lasted linger in my ProII rear... the front is great thought! Headset still original after 6 years. Wouldn't buy brakes... but have not owned them yet.
Good value, durable (mostly) parts which look nice. Unfortunately the hubs do seem to fail eventually - I've broken three hubs though all were pretty old - more so than other brands IME. But then the do have great customer service so I can live with that.
I have their brakes on all three mtbs and hubs on them all too.
I will let you know if they get back to my email regarding the reluctance of my lights to work two rides on the bounce 😥
Disappointingly un-clicky (hope xc) but reassuringly smooth
pick holes in the spelling all you like; i am enjoying some hobgoblin
Have their qrs,vision 4 lights,hubs and seat clamp found them all to be bomb proof
Tech x2's running nice and quiet, though a bit underpowered, 1st class customer service.
I'm sorry to say disappointing, I want them to be great, they look top quality and the British thing appeals, I know there tech support is great but everything i've tried get shown up by Shimano.
In my opinion/experience Hope brakes and hubs aren't a patch on Shimano and when it's my hard earned cash going on the counter i'm sorry to say i'll always chose Shimano.
Been using Hope hubs since 96 - my current wheels are using 8 year old hubs - still as good as new. My Hope headset is 3 years old and never needed any attention. My Vision 4 has just about done 4 winters......mustn't grumble! I've given up on their brakes for the time being though. After using Minis/M4/Monos for 8 years, I finally gave up and went to Shimanos, followed by Formulas. But I wouldn't rule out going back to Hope.
and at least I know that practically every pound I pay goes to British workers; not British middlemen/importers, foreign middlemen/exporters and factory workers gawdknowswhere - nevermind various bankers of all hues
Shit brakes (may have changed since I last used them) brilliant hubs that are reasonably priced and easy to self service.
hope hubs in my experience are the best, still using a pair of hope sport hubs - still going strong after 10 years and a fatso hub after 12 years (and only changed the bearings once) brilliant, and still the best sounding freehubs on the market
Solid, dependable kit IME.
Good value, shiney and british.
I also like the owners business philosophy
Nice hubs - shame about the alloy freehub.
Good serviceable brakes.
Not convinced by headsets.
Seat clamp is poor (alloy bolt prone to snap)
Qrs a bit poor.
Other stuff probably fine.
great gear looks and performance. Price is good and so is aftersales, I've got seat collars, bb lights and three sets of brakes and three sets of hubs all great.
It's really unfair, but the first thing that comes to mind is badly designed maxle axles in the Pro 2, which they'll replace and replace under warranty but not improve the design of.
But other'n that, excellent choice for wheels. Deeply uncompetitive outdated lights that still get recommended for reasons unknown. Excellent QR seatclamps. Brakes that cost as much for one end as a complete Formula set that outperforms them. But good parts availability should you need it [i]Fantastic[/i] warranty.
Couldn't care less about "made in britain" except when it brings genuine advantages not just price hikes, which IMO it does so that's all good.
Seat clamp is poor (alloy bolt prone to snap)
Yep forgot about that also had one of their first headsets that was utter crap as well 🙁
Only bit of Hope I own means regular purchases of pawl springs for my Pro III hub. Otherwise nice click click click that makes my bell almost redundant! Look nice too.
i wouldn't touch their brakes with yours! didn't think much of their customer service either.
things may of changed since i last used them (2003) but once bitten...
Great gear, but getting very pricey!
Stems, Q/R, hubs, h/sets, brakes, lights,bb,wheel sets,all excellent never had any problems, have been using hubs since 94....no breakages, wouldnt use anything else.
If it' not fitted with Hope, I don't want to ride it...
Thomson should send some CNC setters round to show them how its done. 🙂
Anyone else think Hope have some of the CNC programs designed to leave milling marks on the finished part, so that people go "Oooh, look, you can tell it's machined because of the little circles" 😆
its bourn near me, like other ace stuff, single track, brant, orange, troutie, on one...................need I say any more
Fur coat, nae knickers.
Great sounding hubs & awesome m4 stopping power, smooth headsets and bottom brackets...... And best of all ....shiny redness.
(only the qr's are questionable IMHO)
Expensive
In the words of Tina Turner - 'Simply the best', hubs, brakes, headsets, BB's, QR's seat clamps - no issues with any of them
Quality
Uk built quality.
Liking hubs (since 99), QRs and headsets, the issues I had with the brakes seem to be common to all types.
Not sure why you'd use other hubs. Nicely user serviceable, cheap tools, great warranty and 'how to' videos.
Where can you get that funky blue grease? That's the troubling thing.
A triumph of marketing over function, which is ironic really.
Heavy components that don't work as well as they should do, especially their brakes, which are frankly so poor that the difference between their best brake and the best brake on the market, is the same as the difference between the best v-brakes had to offer and an average disc brake.
Their parts availability is however exellent, but then it needs to be....
Great customer service!
Hope
Marketing success story
Triumph of style over substance
Excellent customer service
I can almost hear myself drilling over the click-click-click of their freehubs
Rebuildable kit, with good customer service and parts supply, only issues I've had is rear hub pawls (XC and pro II hubs) but this was about every 2 years so that's fine and one of the old headsets that lasted 18 months again that's fine.
Still run hope hubs and may get more brakes as my monos and M4's of various ages never gave any trouble being rebuilt every 18 months/ years.
I'm pretty picky and will rebuild stuff on a fairly regular basis so I don't think servicing brake sets every two years (seals e.t.c is too bad) It's what I'd do on my motorcycles so why not the bike.
The next posh build will have king hubs on and I only use king headset now too, but that's just because it'll be an advert for the company unless I can get green hope stuf that is 😉 😀 probably not though.
Good well designed British Engineering.
Currently own: 2 rear Bulbs (cliiiiick), 2 front Bulbs, 4 pairs of 2-part M4s, 6-Ti caliper, QR collars, and 3 headsets.
Excellent customer service, and reliable kit.
hub is way to loud not upgraded past XC as I am not listening to that noise
Rest of stuff is spot on
IME very reliable (hubs, headset, brakes), work well, love the fact that everything is easily servicable/rebuildable, and great support. Also look the dogs danglers and love the colour options. The fact that they are British is a bonus rather that a reason to buy.
My only slight disappointment is the Tech X2 brakes. They are good, but don't have the significant extra power advantage over the Mono Minis that I was expecting
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Shiny green anodising. Big camper van. Paul Oldham riding very fast.
Brakes are rebuildable but don't actually work as well as shimano.
Hope to me are the guys who phoned me at work quite unexpectedly after i had asked them by email how to rebuild a tech lever, (my work email hence containing my work no.s),
fantastic customer service unequalled anywhere imo,
as an engineer who runs a large cnc machineshop for a livivng i was most impressed with the thought that had gone into manufacture of the tech lever, well thought out and executed in a precise manner by using a 5 axis mill if I'm not mistaken, which to me shows a high level of investment in machinery and a very high level of skill,
2 of my bikes run hope brakes M4 and V2, and headsets, 1 runs hubs and seat clamp too, would be more than happy to buy more from them, and i love the racket of the rear hub,
proud of them as a british company, well done men, carry on
total JUNK!!!
Qrs bloody dangerous, checked the front one half way down Inners one day and it was good and tight, was loose at the car park 😯 Seatpost clamp an utter friggin nightmare in anything other than dry conditions. Pretty, but pretty useless.
Quality products and good customer service.