Went to fill and bleed the tech m4's on the latest build.
My ever trusty piece of aquarium tubing with the thicker rubber end that i stole of the LBS 20 years ago and used to bleed every Hope brake ive ever had, which is all of them.
Problem YET A-BLOODY-GAIN they has changed something to make it harder to work with without buying something they coincidentally happen to make.
The bleed nipple is bloody tiny, considerably smaller that any before and the whole reason for it as far as I can see, as it adds no design improvement, is purely so you need to buy a Hope bleed kit, which is now an 'easy bleed' kit which now costs more.
This appears to now be Hopes ethos, though the real reason I reckon is all those fking CNC machines they seem to keep buying and retooling every damn week
Everything up to the bulb utilized chunky bearings. Bearings that would last years. Replaced with what can only be described as flimsier, and certainly only last a matter of months.
£140-150 for a rear hub. Replacement bearings are now £45, and you need to buy a little set of drifts that cost another 20 quid.
Tiny changes, massive repercussions. Cant use previous drifts.
Look at the brakes. How many bloody bore cape tools are they going to produce ??? :? again the tiny differences mean a different cap, and its own special tool.
Freehubs went from being Titanium...... TITANIUM FOR FK SAKE :shock: :shock: to soft alloy that has been getting ripped to pieces by something they've long known about, but decided to replace the freehubs with alloy so they wear out quicker.
And dear lord dont start my on freehubs. 6 is it now ? standard fittings are totally indistinguishable from one another. Pro 2 ,pro 2 evo and no pro 4 are all minutely different so arent interchangeable.
Personally again i cannot see how increasing the diameter of the ratchet ring by a tiny amount is going to make any difference whatsoever in the real world.
Maybe they're all relying on nasa grade computer design and have lost sight of what it is they're actually producing and what its getting used for in its main part. No rider is going to notice any different from a 0.12mm increase in the ratchet diameter, especially as its meant a whole new design, more of that retooling they revel in, different bearings and therefore yet another specially only fitting that specific model tool or bearing drift kit.
Hope are out of control.
£70 for a stem :? £120 for a pair of friggin pedals :shock:
I think it's the Rolls Royce background. Were they MOD everything would work with everything else and one tool would service everything
My ever trusty piece of aquarium tubing with the thicker rubber end that i stole of the LBS 20 years ago and used to bleed every Hope brake ive ever had, which is all of them.
Problem YET A-BLOODY-GAIN they has changed something to make it harder to work with without buying something they coincidentally happen to make.
The bleed nipple is bloody tiny, considerably smaller that any before and the whole reason for it as far as I can see, as it adds no design improvement, is purely so you need to buy a Hope bleed kit, which is now an 'easy bleed' kit which now costs more.
This appears to now be Hopes ethos, though the real reason I reckon is all those fking CNC machines they seem to keep buying and retooling every damn week
Everything up to the bulb utilized chunky bearings. Bearings that would last years. Replaced with what can only be described as flimsier, and certainly only last a matter of months.
£140-150 for a rear hub. Replacement bearings are now £45, and you need to buy a little set of drifts that cost another 20 quid.
Tiny changes, massive repercussions. Cant use previous drifts.
Look at the brakes. How many bloody bore cape tools are they going to produce ??? :? again the tiny differences mean a different cap, and its own special tool.
Freehubs went from being Titanium...... TITANIUM FOR FK SAKE :shock: :shock: to soft alloy that has been getting ripped to pieces by something they've long known about, but decided to replace the freehubs with alloy so they wear out quicker.
And dear lord dont start my on freehubs. 6 is it now ? standard fittings are totally indistinguishable from one another. Pro 2 ,pro 2 evo and no pro 4 are all minutely different so arent interchangeable.
Personally again i cannot see how increasing the diameter of the ratchet ring by a tiny amount is going to make any difference whatsoever in the real world.
Maybe they're all relying on nasa grade computer design and have lost sight of what it is they're actually producing and what its getting used for in its main part. No rider is going to notice any different from a 0.12mm increase in the ratchet diameter, especially as its meant a whole new design, more of that retooling they revel in, different bearings and therefore yet another specially only fitting that specific model tool or bearing drift kit.
Hope are out of control.
£70 for a stem :? £120 for a pair of friggin pedals :shock:
I think it's the Rolls Royce background. Were they MOD everything would work with everything else and one tool would service everything
