Hope was showing its usual large array of products, many of which we’ve featured here already but there was still newness if you had a poke around. Oh, and the pedals are REALLY going to be out this spring.
Quietly sitting on an Orange Five was a chain keeper and a combined chainring/bashguard, ready for the 1×10 revolution that’s going to be sweeping the nation at some point. The chainring fits four-bolt chainsets and works well with Hope’s new keeper… There’s a couple of different ones in the works, but currently, they’re working on this seat tube mounted one first.
Loving the integrated cassette… But why oh why in ten speed 🙁
Why not in nine, it would have more success, specially in 9/36
They have shown nine-speed versions in the past too. 🙂
Ar they Mavic style zirkal spokes on the cross bike? On a hope hoop? Very interesting…..
They look more like bladed steel I reckon.
move with the times, grandad juan
Sapim CX-Rays I reckon
defo CX-Rays and I know the picture angle is not perfect but it looks like the cassette in the photo only has 9 gears but of course I could be wrong and left searching out my reading specs 😉 btw neat idea from Hope
The chain is hiding the 10th spocket, pb2 🙂
Who could afford the cassette though? I read somewhere that 4 of the sprockets are Ti. It will make an XX look like a bargain surely (though it’s a great idea and piece of engineering). A 9-36 spread would surely make 1×10 totally useble though for a lot of folks, n’est pas?
Here’s the original story (from 2010!) on the Hope cassette (in nine speed then too!)
http://singletrackmag.com/2010/09/eurobike-hopes-new-xx-beater/
*dribbles*
Hope make such nice stuff and im so glad we have a brittish engineering company that we can be proud of and holds back on the product untill its fit for purpose , If that bash and ring were a 2 ten it would be perfect for me the hills are a killer here in North Devon. I only really use 2×10 on exmoor the big ring is just a spikey bash guard.