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As title really, can I boostify a Hope Pro II SS hub?
You can boost any rear 10mm or 12mm hub with the generic kits, they're a wee bit faffier when you remove the wheel though.
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As Northwind says, you have to be slightly careful when removing the wheel, which is often infrequently on a rear wheel so likely you’ll forget then when you’re sorting a puncture in the middle of nowhere, you’ll lose one or both of the axle adapters!
It's currently 135 bolt up but I'll look into a thru axle 👍
I'm running a Pro 2 (non Evo) with the 142mm end caps and one of those adapter spacer kits to get it up to 148mm. Kind of annoying that they don't make the same end caps but with an extra 3mm added to each end to do the same thing. I've half thought about sticking the 3mm washers on with JB Weld to make it less faffy 🙂 The adapter kits are cheap enough to carry a spare set in case you lose one when out riding. I never really take my rear wheel off so it hasn't been an issue yet.
AFAIK the Evo can go to boost without the need for the fiddly spacers, Wolftooth Boostinator fits I think.
Pro 4 kit works with Pro 2 Evo too...
If it's 10mm bolt up you'll need to change the axle and get the boost conversion kit to make it 148mm 12mm thru axle, but check with Hope though, I'm not sure about SS hubs, sjs cycles has loads of Hope axles.
From the 'evo' (Pro2) onwards, the axle was the same size, so all the bits are interchangeable. I've never had a SS version, but all the rest can share axles/caps/boost etc.
I'm still running some Pro2 Evo's through all the guises of axle 'standards' 135QR, 135Bolt-on, 142 and 148.
3 rebuilds and they're still running the same, first set of bearings......
Does the singlespeed hub not use a different hub shell?
I'm can't really remember as it's been so long since I've owned one but I'm almost certain that the shell is wider than a standard hub as the freehub is a fair bit narrower.
Any axle swap would need the correct SS 142 axle then either the Hope or generic boost adaptors.
I know they do or at least did make a 142 axle for the SS hub as I converted a bolt in to 142.