PSA Hope Pro 5

Rear £135 https://www.merlincycles.com/hope-pro-5-6-bolt-rear-hub-boost-148x12mm-290141.html

Front £57 https://www.merlincycles.com/hope-pro-5-6-bolt-front-hub-15mm-291147.html

and the various variants

Bargain, cheers. I ordered a rear to match the crazy cheap front I got from CRC for the wheel set I don’t need.

Dammit, no silver to match the crazy cheap rear I got from CRC for the wheel set I don’t need.

Thank god, for a second I thought these were full wheel prices after I recently spent a whole lot more on a rear wheel……..

Sadly no 28h rear boost rears in blue.

Must resist…

Cheers, missed out on a front, but have a rear.

Sweet, been wanting to build a new wheel set for a while. Now to look for rims…

@ads678 here you go! https://www.biketart.com/collections/rims?pf_v_brand=DT+Swiss

481 rims for £50 is a bargain!

Fortunately for my bank balance, the size spec I need isn’t available. Great PSA though.

Thanks for this PSA (I think), got the HG steel freehub version with a view to a future Linkglide setup (or going back to 10 speed).

And picked up an EX471 27.5 rim for £50 from Biketart to get it built into a rear wheel for my mullet setups.

🙂

All those variations yet no torque caps one, come on Merlin.
Actually that goes for most other stores as well.

If the Pro 5 Torque Caps are the same as the Pro 4 ones – I’ll swap you mine for the standard 15mm jobbies

🙂

Bought a couple of 481 rims from the Biketart eBay page as well. Strangely if you buy from there you get them cheaper for buying 2 or 3, so paid £46 each and free delivery as well!

Anyone got any recommendations for spokes?

Superb PSA, thanks (I think).

Managed to get pair in silver: front 110 x 20 ‘Superboost’ which I’m hoping I can swap in 15mm end caps, and a 148×12 XD rear. Combined with XM481s from Biketart – thanks @submarined! – that’s a great set of wheels for £300ish (I already have a stash of spokes, so I don’t count their cost, right?)

I hoverd over the 11 x 5 QR black hub. Which of you buggers snaffled it?

Good PSA.

Mrs-t-r sunset orange salsa Vaya is getting some purple pro 5s in 100*12 and 135quick release.

Been looking for a decent replacement for the many times cobbled together awful sealed wtb hubs that are on their last legs.

I’ve been thinking about a 27.5 boost rear wheel to mullet my Levo for ages – hub ordered, thanks!

I’m now debating getting an EX511 or EX471 rim for it, or reusing the rims (and spokes if they fit?) from the set of non-boost Flow EX / Pro 2 Evo wheels that have been lurking in the “things to sell” metaphorical corner for an eternity. Of course then I’ll have some old Hope hubs kicking around to sell…

WWSTWD?

@chiefgrooveguru No reason not to go for a EX511 really, especially on an ebike.