Hope Bronze – Very Disappointing

You’re welcome

Yep, should’ve been the colour of the copaslip I’ve been putting on (yeah I know, copper/bronze)

If that photo is supposed to show a noticeable difference, it’s failed.
Seems more like a Hope flex, tbh :p

Is that a bronze TR stem on the left?

I genuinely have no idea which is which 😀

There’s not much difference between the colours in that pic (though I’m currently sat in pub beer garden in the sun!)

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Feels like there should be a T-shirt.

Feels like there should be a T-shirt.

What colour options?

Ginger.

I did say it was a bad photo (Moto G9 Plus, auto mode).  I can see how in isolation (and at my pic) looking at the bronze you’d think it could be orange, but it is different to the orange.

Hopefully the anodising is as durable a colour as the orange and doesn’t fade.  Like red.  Or green.  Or purple.  Or blue.

Green with zips*

I really wanted to keep my pink hope bits for the build I’m doing, but was too pricey to convert everything.

*iykyk

The point being daylight vs artificial light etc. can make big differences to how this colour looks

And then add in the variability in screens that the consumer is looking at. I’m using two screens as I’m reading this thread – all of the pictures look different from screen to screen. I reckon that this is as much a distance selling issue as it is a ‘Hope coloured in the wrong hubs’ problem.

I very much like dogs for the record, cats too. In fact, all animals really.
What about poisonous octopuses?

Octopuses and octopi are awesome. I’d love to have a pet poisonous octopus. I bet it would give me more affection than my cats.

Screen calibration isn’t really a factor as the difference will be clear between the two colours regardless.

As it goes, I have pro calibrated displays and the problem is very present

I’d love to have a pet poisonous octopus

It’s the venomous ones you need to look out for…

Is this one of those optical illusion things, like the white/blue/gold dress from a few years ago, or whatever it was?

FWIW, I’d be pretty bummed if I ordered a bronze component expecting it to be looking like the Hope marketing pics and it turned up looking like an orange/gold hybrid.

I did feel bummed initially, if I had known I would’ve gone for silver but didn’t want to cause the bike shop a headache. Won’t matter when covered in mud.

I’d love to have a pet poisonous octopus
It’s the venomous ones you need to look out for…

Don’t be ridiculous, why would I risk being bitten by a venomous octopus? But, if I lose my love for this world and all its splendours, I can just munch a bit of Pandora, my poisonous prulilegged pet and leave for the Elysian Fields in a moment. 😀

Burgtec got it right with their Kash Bronze as others have noted.

At least this is a PSA to buy in first and check the colours before getting things built up!

won’t matter when covered in mud

this is the point for me, especially with hubs,

I suppose a stem you have to look at more!

black for the win!

Now more glad than ever that I went for black for my blingprovement Hope rotors on the gravel bike.

Stem looks OK imho – like a bruised satsuma. But works with the black bars.

Hubs very orange, very bad.

I, famously, love an octopus.

I really like the new colour, much classier than the orange. Looks nothing like Hope’s promo shots though, in any light.

munrobikerFree Member
I, famously, love an octopus.

Wait, are you another Neil sockpuppet?

I, famously, love an octopus.

I’ve googled but can find nothing -you’re not as famous as you think you are. And is it heartfelt love or sticky love? 😀

IdleJonFull Member
I, famously, love an octopus

you are the fisherman’s wife Hokuzai dreamed of and I claim my sick squid

Chris King REALLY struggled to get consistent colouring with Matt Bourbon colouring.

At one point I had three hubs that were all different shades:

kimbersFull Member
IdleJonFull Member
I, famously, love an octopus
you are the fisherman’s wife Hokuzai dreamed of and I claim my sick squid

Oi, it wasn’t me. Don’t cast aspersions on my cephalopodic inclinations. Give my sick squid back.

Sick squid probably sums my feelings on cephalopods up better than heartfelt or sticky love.

Holy moly they are orange hubs in the first pics – I’d 100% be sending them back – they look as orange as the normal orange hope hubs – there’s not even a hit of bronze regardless of the lighting

I was thinking of getting them in that colour but won’t be doing that now that’s for sure

if it’s bronze like all the press shots then they should be bronze – there should be little to no variation but man they just look orange

This is exactly what Hope gunmetal is for.

If only there was somewhere you could go to see things in person before you bought them or even buy them there and then. Someone should try that one day…

Sorry, someone was bound to say it and I’m sure someone’s going to have a fit if they can’t tick it off their forum **** bingo card.

FWIW they are absolutely not bronze, they look like my copper Aireal hubs. The good news is they’re about 19 years old and not faded so there’s that. I’d be contacting Hope though, that definitely looks like a production issue.

I ordered most of my stuff from a bike shop, the awesome 18Bikes, they discussed the colour with me and talked about the ano process.

Anyway, here’s something that turned up today (not from 18, sorry chaps!). Aforementioned key ring for colour Ref.

It’s so bizarre that they’ve made a new colour that can’t be distinguished from an existing colour unless it’s next to it.

In the photo above, I don’t actually know if I’m looking at an orange or bronze headset part (except that it’s written on the box)

Yep it just looks orange it’s not dark enough or dull enough to be bronze and looks absolutely nothing like the press shots

I just remembered I had an orange headset top cap in my parts bin, so just for fun, here it is next to my “bronze” hub 😂

And as a reminder, this is the advertised colour:

Well at least you won’t have to buy a top cap now to match

It’s so bizarre that they’ve made a new colour that can’t be distinguished from an existing colour unless it’s next to it.

I can barely tell the difference when they are next to each other. Surely it has to be a mistake or production issue. Is there nobody from Hope lurking on here? It should be renamed oranze or brorange!

Pleased to see some images where both options are in the same shot, because automatic white balance is a thing.
I happened to be in a bike shop recently and they had a display cabinet.

Is the top one small or far away?