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EB13: Hope Tech Updates Hubs, Brakes, Lights & More! – UPDATED

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Hope Tech was a bit shy with their usual collection of lustworthy super trick prototypes, but they did have plenty of functional updates and improvements to a host of items.

Starting with the brakes, their new Hope Tech 3 master cylinder will replace the Evo unit. The new design is cleaner and more streamlined and offers better lever ergonomics. It’s also designed to clean up cockpit placement and help it play nicer with shifters, drop post remotes and other items that typically bump shoulders.

The new master cylinder uses a cam and roller system to push the piston, so it’s just as smooth as ever, and it’s compatible with all of their existing brake calipers. In fact, it bumps power 5% compared to the Tech Evo lever. The new clamp is directly compatible with Shimano I-Spec, and a SRAM Matchmaker direct mount is available.

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UPDATE: The M4 caliper becomes the M4 Enduro brake. They’ve moved the banjo to the backside of the caliper, facing the spokes, and the pads get a larger surface area. That doesn’t necessarily provide more power, just better wear.

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Not exactly new, but worth showing off is their dual layer rotor. It’s only for use with their V4 calipers since it’s 3mm thick, but it’s a true vented design, letting hot air and gasses escape between the braking surface much like a race car’s rotor. Sick!

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Their all-new BMX hubs are finally giving the people what they want. It’s an adapted version of their Pro 2 hubs to fit the narrower BMX axle spacing but with a few tricks of its own. It uses a new 40-tooth ratchet with four offset pawls, engaging only two at a time for 80 engagement points. Those internals were put into two different hubs: A standard version with a 9-tooth sprocket machined directly into the end cap, and a dual drive version with a direct-mounted sprocket using a standard 6-bolt brake rotor mounting pattern on one side and a similar sprocket on a freewheel on the other. That gives you both fixed and freewheel options on the same hub in a very clever design.

For mountain bikers, the Pro 2 hubs also get upgraded with the new 40-tooth engagement ring, up from 24 teeth (40% increase). They also added axle options so your hubs will work with all current standards. The Fatsno hubs also get new axle options: 142×15 front and 190mm rear.

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Their new PressFit BB provides options for pressfit frames and 30mm or 24mm spindles. The design uses two cups that thread together on the center tube for a tight, flex-and-squeak-free fit. It uses a special shop tool (which they sell separately) to install, which then reverses to press the bearings into the cups.

2014-Hope-Tech-R1-LED-bicycle-headlight

Last but not least is the new R1 Light. It fits between existing models, providing a wider beam than the entry level 1LED model but cheaper than the 1000 lumen R4. Using existing battery packs from their line (2600mAh or 5200mAh), it’ll pump out 500 lumens for a minimum of 2.5 hours. And they say that’s measured lumens, actual output is more than 600 lumens. Weight is as little as 250g depending on mounting system, of which three are included: handlebar, helmet and head.

Hopetech.com

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g
10 years ago

Any word on when the tech 3 levers will be available? …weight compared to tech evo lever? Are the race levers being updated as well? What about the new version of the m4 caliper?

MB
MB
10 years ago

Will their 6-bolt cogs be available after market?

Tony
Tony
10 years ago

The new hubs looks good, and I guess they are going to sound different. More POE, means more noise? It’s that’s even possible?? XD

Nick
Nick
10 years ago

“asfdasdf”
~????? what

Bruce
10 years ago

More POE means less noise. At least on the Hadley’s and the DT Swiss hubs that I changed the engagement on. Both got a lot more quite.

Seraph
Seraph
10 years ago

6-bolt cogs are nothing new btw. People have been adapting disc hubs to make fixed mountain bikes for years now.

g
g
10 years ago

so….tyler? ???

Tad Dickman
Tad Dickman
10 years ago

“the new 40-tooth engagement ring, up from 24 teeth (40% increase).”
Ummm… Technically… a 100% increase means double… double would be 48… so 40 puts it at more like a 90% increase 🙂

AC
AC
10 years ago

Yeah, the 40% is obviously wrong. 16/40 = 40%. Going from 40 point to 24 point would be 40% less. Going from 24 point to 40 point is 16/24 = 66.67% more than 24. Looking forward to these being available. It’d really be nice if the old hubs could be upgraded as well.

Tad Dickman
Tad Dickman
10 years ago

No-go on upgrading past hope hubs to the new 40t. From Hope themselves.

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