Possible stupid question here, but who builds the hope hoops you can buy as complete wheels?
Are they all built by hope themselves in house, or is it a third party? And are they built by a machine, or by hand?
Just wondering if there's a master wheel-builder sat in barnoldswick, knocking hoops out all day every day. Or if they're assembled by others overseas.
I may be wrong but I was told they are made by machine in the hope factory (in the UK I assume)
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Machine assembled then hand finished in-house at Hope.
Thanks - excellent link jam1e.
http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/factory-visit-hope-technology/
Brother-in-law is the spoke key monkey in the last PIC.
Ace, seen that before but was good to see again taking more notice of the wheel building process.
Great machine