#hopetech #sameclickonlybetter #pro4Since the first days of business back in 1989, Hope Technology co-owners Ian Weatherill and Simon Sharp have maintained the same ethos behind the business – high quality products, no sales waffle. Let the products do the talking. For nearly 25 years, Hope Technology has been pushing the industry forward through designing, testing and manufacturing virtually all products in-house at the factory in Barnoldswick, United Kingdom.
From the very first Ti-glide hubs launched back in 1993 Hope have had a reputation for producing some of the most durable and high quality hubs on the market. This attention to detail has been carried into the new
Pro 4 hub range as they are a direct development of the successful Pro 2 EVO.
Hope are one of those companies where people are key. Steel City Media visited the Hope Factory to meet the people involved in designing and developing the hubs. This short film, "Behind the Hub" highlights the key stages of manufacturing and assembly involved to bring you that infamous click....
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Now I realise they are vastly underpriced for the level of quality. If I paid a engineer to make me a one-off set of hubs, ensuring none of the usual comprimises to the design and manufaturing process that (usually) come with mass production, using the best materials and processes, then the result would be the same as a Hope hub.
My next hubs will be Hope. I Hope. Hubba Hubba.
- Me
Can't find it in the Oxford English...
IMO, a loud noise is ANTI RAW ! and I'm not in the case but more than one friend of mine told me that yeah, they were becoming fool with the constant noise, and that the couldn't stand it anymore !!! just riding behind someone with Hope is "weird" .. your hear the noise more than you're tires on the soil.
Keep pedaling.
As far as others hearing me I installed a bell. I randomly ring it while riding so the local bears can hear me as well as the occasional hiker or fellow rider.
i wanna ride the damn thing, wash it once or twice a year, service the suspension once or twice a year, put Stans in the tires and put new brake pads in when they're toasted. i don't wanna be repacking bearings and re-greasing everything under the sun and re-pressing bearings all over the bike... that shit is for the birds. here's the key to success:
1) over-build wheelsets
2) use Hope stuff and never service any of your shit
3) go ride all the time then come home and take naps
4) eat/sleep/sex/tattoos/whiskey/motorbikes in some various amounts throughout the month
5) profit
I have a set or pro 2 evos and some DT 240S. Different price point but again, the difference in performance on the trail is obvious even to a hacker like me. I'll need a £100 kit to service them though.
Downvote away boys, the truth is hope hubs are draggy.
I've had stacks of Hope hubs for mountain bikes and road bikes, and they make a good product with legendary customer service.
they do have drag compared to other hubs, which is much more noticeable on the road bike wheel than the mountain bike wheel.
I found the Pro 2 and Pro 2 Evo tended to eat bearings quite quickly, I've had issues in the past with the pawl springs snapping, and the soft aluminium alloy freehub became easily gouged by even high end Shimano cassettes, leading to creaking under power and noisy gears (as the cog shifting pattern becomes out of synch)
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Hope were great though and replaced my alloy body twice, free of charge. On the third time they gave me a steel body, free of charge. This made the rear hub super heavy, but certainly addressed the issue. They also sent me free pawl springs.
Its a shame they no longer make their titanium body as this would be the best option for weight/toughness
The new Pro 4 looks like it addresses the bearing issue with larger bearings and everything beefed up internally, I'm currently riding on DT Swiss 240s and 350s which are fantastic but would try Hope again in the future as I know they stand behind their products like no other brand.
I love watching informative vids on how things are designed and made and Hope's are some of the best. I also love ALL the Hope components I run on my bikes and have experienced nothing but great customer service from them as well. Top company!
I don´t care if it´s more expensive, not using all that space on a 150 hub with a 7 speed cassette is stupid, and i know Hope design department is not stupid so I am blaming accounting and sales. Prove me wrong Hope!
Downhill rear hub – Available Jan 2016
With many DH riders using short 7 speed cassettes, we saw a potentially missed opportunity to improve the strength of rear wheels. Our new DH rear hub moves the drive-side spoke flange out to the shortened cassettes, allowing a far wider flange spacing over a standard hub, leading to a stiffer wheel build.
The hub will accept either our 7 speed cassette, a custom 7 speed cassette built up from individual sprockets, or a Sram 7 speed DH cassette. It’s also supplied in either 150/157 or 135 (demo 8 ) widths.
You got your wish!
My hope hubs are awesome. Four years old, never miss a beat. Definitely worth the money.
Thing is, why dont they just let people put xd drivers on their standard 150hubs, like every other company out there, and then produce a proper 7spd specific hub for everyone else?
www.hopetech.com/product/pro-4-dh-rear-hub
The high-tech part are the tight tolerances for the components: axle, hub body, ratchet mechanism, cassette body
Come one knuckleheads, decide what you want!
Might have missed it, but will the front take the new rockshox torque caps (i'm guessing not..)?
The new Boost hubs front and rear have only moved the Flanges out by 5mm overall, thus missing half of the benefit of having 10mm more Boost spacing!!!!!
I got a boost pro 2 evo front hub and went with a boost sun ringle hub instead for this reason. The new Pro 4 suffer from the same thing?? Why?
Hope makes a great hub, but Hadley, King, and of course DT are the top dogs.
Thanks for posting! Great to see how they’re made.