Hope TechHope always has something on display at Eurobike to grab your attention, whether that be a teaser for something some way in the distance, or something that's ready for market. Their trademark of sharp machining and bright anodizing always catches your eye and leads you into their booth to see what's been knocked up on their CNC machines in the run to the show.
Tech Evo V4 Flat Pedals SRAM Compatible XD Freehub Body & Integrated Cassette Integrated Bash Rings & Chain Device Eternity Layback Post
e*ThirteenPrototype Carbon Fibre Chain DeviceSteve Peat Signature GuideRevised Bottom BracketSRS is no more, but don’t worryUpdated TRS Crank range
Danny Hart's 'Help for Heroes' Giant Glory Reign SX
KTMWe recently featured KTM's press launch which covered the new for 2013 29" wheeled Scarp and the 650B Lycan. There were two bikes of note for the PB crowd which we didn't cover in much detail, the Bark and the Aphex/Ratchet, but here they are.
Bark Aphex & Ratchet
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Chris KingChris King needs no introduction, their headsets and hubs having been the top-drawer go to for years. In recent years the introduction of multiple standards for hubs, headsets and now bottom brackets has led to an explosion in the number of products they now offer.
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Top left Disc specific road/cyclocross hub. Yeah, it's for narrow tyres but real brakes are finally beginning to take hold in their world
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Top right How nice? This Levi's/Chris King collaboration commuter jacket was pretty trick with Chris King details throughout
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Middle Have a Chris King BB? Well then you'll need this tool replace the grease in those bearings and keep them running sweet
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Bottom left An obligatory cut away shot of the famous Chris King Ring Drive showing the finely engineered internals
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Bottom right If you like your tools then we're pretty sure you'll appreciate this, a Chris King workshop tool for BB servicing
*Until a new standard comes out.
Works even better on roadies on their way for training, especially under bridges and in tunnels under roads, I love to do it on my Hope hub, but it is not as loud as CK, you just constantly sneak up to the guy and coast letting the freewheel make some noise! again and again
What's even better is when you're following a guy (or in a group) and one of you stops pedalling, then everyone else stops pedaling and you get a little screaming Hope symphony.
The Hope DH cassette will be a game changer for the sport in ways that think many people don't fully grasp yet.
I know the benefits of a low BB , my scalp is very low and I appreciate the cornering , but it's pretty much the oppossite of what most off road vehilces have , ground clearance is normally high on the agenda and we are going the opposite way , surely we have already reached the optimal limit of BB hights ?( or lows more to the point )
Its good to see big companys like this in the sport I, and many others love doing, something to help a cause that matters!!!
So like I say... It's hats off to giant for giving a sh*t!
As for saying "You don't see any other manufacturer doing anything like this do u?", there are other companies that also do good stuff aswell as Giant. Secialized do their Sam Hill breast cancer bike auctions to raise money for charity, Kona have their Africabike charity which donates bikes to healthcare workers and others who help their communities in Africa.
But you need to sort out what's Close to home, before you can sort out the rest of the world!?
This probably means abit more to me though as I am an ex-serving soldier myself with 2 tours under my belt, and I did lose a couple of my friends and had a couple of them go onto the help for Heros program! So like I say just brings it abit close to home for me.
E-Thirteen seems to pick up some good wind as well, sweet stuff, cranks are drool-triggers. Anybody knows where E13 manufactures their stuff?
Yet these vented Saw rotors are cool. I saw them at the Megavalanche, wondered what they was but the Hope guy was pretty busy and decided not to bother him with that
Now need to know what that increase from V2 to V4 is, see if it's worth it. Cheers.
How do they manage to build the best MX bikes in the world and improve on them each season...
And at the same time build something as mediocre as the Aphex and just make it a little worse each year?
Throw away that pre-2010 frame and start over. I KNOW that they have the potential to create one hell of a DH bike if they REALLY want to!
Love the headset press looks an awful lot like my chris king hub service tool though... just sayin.
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I have one of those CK Hub service...I mean headset presses in my tool box. Funny I have never pressed a headset with it but it works great on hub services.