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I'm going to either build (or have some wheel(s) built*) on rims I have.
Currently everything we (family) own (except DJ and BMX) is 27.5 non-boost, pre metric but I'm realising at some point I will get dragged into this decade. This might come sooner rather than later as I may have wrecked a fork last crash... (at least economically)
Current wheels get swapped about, mixed and matched etc. all the time but I'd like most of them to be wider and I managed to pick up some decent wide (Spank) rims.
BASICALLY
I can't decide if its worth buying a Hope front hub that can then be converted with the Hope kit or not or just stick something like a Novatec on and if the rim survives rebuild later or some generic conversion kit and whether to just get 2 wheels though I'm less happy about a converted rear?
*My last set of professionally built wheels (Dan from Handcrafted) have been fantastic and despite abuse hardly needed a spoke touching in nearly 5 years so I'd probably get them built if I buy a more expensive hub vs do it myself on a cheap hub.
It would to be fair be useful to still be able to still swap wheels over... is that a possibility with the Hope front conversion kit? (Obviously need to swap rotor)
Hope's rear kit doesnt require dishing just longer end caps and rotor spacers, so swapping wheel between boost and non boost frames involves just swapping endcaps and adding or removing rotor spacers, the front needs dishing over 5mm with no rotor spacers just a 10mm longer right hand side endcap but swapping the wheel back to a non boost fork would leave the wheel 5mm off centre.
It you use a kit like the MRP better boost then yes the front can be swapped without a re-dish (swap spacers to non boost and remove disc spacer). The hope kit requires the wheel to be dished.
If you want to swap between boost and non boost the proper hope end caps require the wheel to be re dish so hope might not be what you are after. But I’ve got a standard Hope hub and converted it to torque cap boost and it’s really stiff. There is also a train of thought that the re dish actually centralises the rim and makes the wheel stronger.
HTH
Tim
Edit: slow typing means I got beat.
Ah, that MRP one looks good and I could build onto a DT350 and it would also fit one of my current front wheels.
350 is what I have it on. Had no problems at all with it.
Duplicate post
Re hub choice I had a hope bearing failure this week in a hub that has only been in use for 13 years without being touched. Bearings swapped so I have pencilled in a service for June 2033. Hope rear boost conversion easy. Re dishing front is pretty easy and leads to a stronger (more centered) wheel but obviously no good if swapping between boost and non boost.
Re dishing front is pretty easy and leads to a stronger (more centered) wheel but obviously no good if swapping between boost and non boost.
It would be good to be able to swap and a front non-boost is most pressing.
I can live with a few bearing changes.
Timoth, how did you manage boost and torque cap? I didn’t think hope did boostifying torque caps.
I’ve used both a cheap and cheerful ‘5mm each side and 5mm under the rotor’ kit and the propEr hope asymmetric boost cap on a dedicated boost wheel build. Both fine. The asymmetric approach builds a lovely even wheel though- spoke tension nearly balanced side to side.
If you go with the 5mm spacers approach you can save losing them by wrapping some leccy tape around the spacer and end cap. Functional boosting spacers for hope.