The factory floor from above...It's the complete staff of Hope Techology...A mini museum dominates the entrance area...Watch your hands...Freshly purchased test machinery - for testing cranks perhaps?They fitted in the room with a bit of fettling.
A disk brake dyno......action stations.Temperatures of disk, pad and calliper are measured along with the speed and torque. You can similate an alpine descent using this......or just make discs glow red for the camera.Shiny - but not shiny enough.Before being anodised, the hubs are hung on these and polished.....till they look like this.How? With walnuts, that's how.Ground up walnuts are eco friendly too.Other items are polished loose in these tubs.Anodising - components are hung on hooks...
...then dunked into the anodising tanks.Electrical current is passed through the work items and through the liquid, priming the surface.They're then put in temperature controlled batsh of dye to give the desire colour.If some of this looks home-made.....it's because it is. Hope created all their anodising baths themselves.The final touch - laser etching on callipersHope Hoops custom wheels are hand finished...Wheels are laced up by hand before having spokes threaded on......it's all about speed as well as efficiency.Wheels are fed into the machine to be tensioned up.An unfortunate juxaposition.The bearing press...A brew and some bearings.The many Hoops of Hope..because all the staff bikes are in here.Hope Vision LED lights are soldered up in house...The brains.That grey bulb housing is made by the design team's 3D printer...Green goodness.Individual CNC machined components are hand assembledSomeone with taste.The tool for stripping hydraulic hose before barbs are fitted - made in house, again.This makes bleeding brakes very easy.....open spanner, wait until they are no bubbles, job done.Mono calliper stands out from the crowdLeverage.Carbon fibre lever bladesWhere billet is turned into dreams...The fastest workbench ever - actually for testing warranty returns...Hope's customer service has always been excellent...A pin-up.....and a different kind of pin-up bird.Nice to see others suffer from 'riding cheeks'We're not sure what this is.Hope's new integrated cassette and freehub being ground into submission on a staff bike......as is their prototype crankset and chain device.Corridors of powerFrom paper to prototype to reality. A new Mini M4...
31 thoughts on “Hope Technology Factory – A photo tour”
Brilliant to see a UK company doing so well especially in these hard times. Good on you Hope…
hope are awesome
so glad theyre british too
Makes me very happy to have bought Hope hubs.
Makes me even happeir to be part of the team, shame about the terrible picture of me though 🙁
I’ve bought Hope stuff in the past and having experienced their customer service which is without doubt the best I have experienced anywhere, I now buy it because it works great and I trust it. And should something go wrong (that wasn’t my stupid fault!) I know that help isn’t far away. Keep on guys!
very enjoyable article, thanks ST people
I really like that hope parts are a totally different business model to anybody else. I might be wrong but most other companies are selling a product with inbuilt redundancy through parts that will break and are nearly impossible to replace. Hope though making something where most of the parts are replaceable and serviceable quite simply at home usually or they often refurbish in the factory. How cool is that and pees on anything that most other parts manufacturers offer from a great height.
Brilliant. I wants those pedals. GIVE ME A PAIR!
really interesting artical, great to see everything being made in house, speaks volumes about their ethics, ie not spreadsheet designing.
have always had hope stuff on my bikes because i trust it, but must admit, i use the big S brakes ;o)
oh, and put me down for those pedals!
As with many other STWers, I love attention to detail. This was great and added a lot of character to a revered name in mtb. I’m even more excited about my new Hoop (on it’s way in the post!). I feel my bike may develop a Hope infection soon…
Lovely cranks too!
Neil looks well happy in all the pics with him in.
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Brilliant to see a UK company doing so well especially in these hard times. Good on you Hope…
hope are awesome
so glad theyre british too
Makes me very happy to have bought Hope hubs.
Makes me even happeir to be part of the team, shame about the terrible picture of me though 🙁
I’ve bought Hope stuff in the past and having experienced their customer service which is without doubt the best I have experienced anywhere, I now buy it because it works great and I trust it. And should something go wrong (that wasn’t my stupid fault!) I know that help isn’t far away. Keep on guys!
very enjoyable article, thanks ST people
I really like that hope parts are a totally different business model to anybody else. I might be wrong but most other companies are selling a product with inbuilt redundancy through parts that will break and are nearly impossible to replace. Hope though making something where most of the parts are replaceable and serviceable quite simply at home usually or they often refurbish in the factory. How cool is that and pees on anything that most other parts manufacturers offer from a great height.
Brilliant. I wants those pedals. GIVE ME A PAIR!
really interesting artical, great to see everything being made in house, speaks volumes about their ethics, ie not spreadsheet designing.
have always had hope stuff on my bikes because i trust it, but must admit, i use the big S brakes ;o)
oh, and put me down for those pedals!
As with many other STWers, I love attention to detail. This was great and added a lot of character to a revered name in mtb. I’m even more excited about my new Hoop (on it’s way in the post!). I feel my bike may develop a Hope infection soon…
Lovely cranks too!
Neil looks well happy in all the pics with him in.