I have had a number of hope hubs in the past - these latest ones are a lot quieter.
My WI free hub seems to be louder. If you want loud, go Industy Nine hubs.
Iām still on my light bicycle hookless rims on my 29er hardtail. They were built with DT revs by a novice, ocassional builder (me) and havenāt been a problem. I even re-dished the front wheel a couple of weeks ago for boostage (after maybe 2 years with them? I dunno, maybe less) and they were totally happy with itā¦ I was expecting a fight, but thats kudos more to the nipples/spokes/prep than rims. Iāve hit the rear rim hard many times, and very hard once and its good. they weigh about as much as the old crests, are about 22mm internal I think, cost 180USD each. (edit, I should add that a mate has the same rims and exploded one on a side-on (POWERSLIDEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY) impact with a rock and it exploded. Not so much that the wheel caved in, but the rim had a big crack through where sealant was blowing outā¦ we were kings walking back to the carparkā¦ Maybe Ezy was there that day? On slick rock? with T2? hahaha!)
The prices that are being mentioned in this thread are bloody spine chillingly high.
Also, Iāve picked up many sets of hope hoops, theyāve been excellent, without exception. If they still do them through CRC or evans or similar, theyāre definitely worth a look. The only thing is that they use pukey black spokes instead of gleaming silver.
So specced a hope to stans arch build on CRC and it comes to $810 aud delivered. Guess thatās what buying power and scale gets you. Just the front is $330. In hindsight, perhaps i should have just bought that and sold the spare dt hub (or hung the damn wheel on my wall as a reminder not to get bent out of shape in the air).
Rim fixed. Bit more internal width. Looking forward to swinging it into some berms in anger!
- scab tax. Cat wouldnāt sit still.