Now, seeing as 1x is the new black, there’s no need to make a front mech. Surely that makes it easier for Hope to finally make that rear mech that’s been kicking around for a while…..
Reach is pretty short on the medium size, I imagine they’ll be working on longer, lower, slacker moulds in due course. Otherwise it looks great, I don’t have a problem buying a complete bike that, effectively, has bespoke parts. I hope (pun intended!) that they sell enough to continue with the bikemaking enterprise.
yeah im not so convinced either. have seen a few of them around over the last 12 months or so but its aesthetics (apart from the finish) have never blown me away. its just looks like it should’ve been released 2 years ago? for £7.5k you’d at least want some fancy carbon hoops, a boost backend and a bottle cage…
I think it’s brilliant they’ve managed to do this. Who else is managing to make a carbon frame without cheap eastern labour? The list is very short… And I think the rear hub solution is a great one, seems a better standard for the real world.
Its great that they have done it, but would I buy one at 7.5k? No…
IMO there are other nicer ‘full’ custom (UK if you want it) options out there with a more modern approach (robot bike co), which you could kit out with hope part as for less money.
Although I like idea of the ‘non standard’ standards that they are using on the back end, having never had an issue with my 197mm Fat bike chain stay width hitting trees etc its a bit of a unnecessary design (again. IMO).
As most much of the kit is in-house and the wheels are 400 (at retail) i would love to find out how much a frame only option would be….. 6.5k+?
I watched the vid late last night ….but what do people mean by non-standard parts ?
My understanding when sleepy was this is actually one of the few bike still using standard parts as SRAM push boost ???
(This being a perspective that Boost isn’t a standard 😀 as most bikes being ridden as opposed to bought are not boost)
To be fair I’d be pretty scared using the bike for its intended purpose… unless they are offering crash damage replacement
At the price, it looks doomed to fail. Shame, as it looks nice overall.
They’re only going to be making 10 a week so it doesn’t need to many orders to meet demand, especially when they get through the initial UK orders and then open it up to europe and the US.
They’re making it to order so risk is much lower and once the moulds on the frames have paid themselves back it’s just a case of running the programme on the CNC machines and laying up the carbon for the frames.
It’s quite clever how they’ve done this, it may or may not be a high profit product for them, but it’s a good advert for what they can do
FWIW, I think it’s a lovely looking bike, and hope have been doing proper testing for a couple if years now, so shouldn’t really be many issues with it, I’d live a shot.
It’s good to see a UK company doing this, I really hope it is a roaring success.
But it is expensive, no getting away from that, at least it’ll mean SC, Yeti and intense won’t be held up the dearest bikes now!.