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If you just want a cheap silver MTB hub, why not Shimano? 525s are under £20 if you want 6-bolt, or there are various iterations of XT centrelock still in the shops for under £40 and you get a steel freehub with any of them.
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I think the reasoning is that I'm a bit of a Hope fanboy and wanted 'nice' (read vanity/boutique/poncy) parts for this (which does go against the idea of keeping it as cheap as possible thing). So my first thought was Hope must do a singlespeed hub and I'll be able to get one second hand easy as pie. Then when I saw they didn't really have a single speed, just the trials, I looked to other manufacturers for a singlespeed solution. When I didn't really find anything there that suited, I ended up considering Hope geard hubs with spacers. But that was more getting back onto Hope, than accepting that a regular geared hub would be the solution. 6-bolt Shimano would be the sensible move though. But then again, if that's the way my mind worked, all my bikes would have Kalloy posts and Novatec hubs.
Sanddancer
Thanks all.
I hadn't thought of Middleburn cranks. They've gone to the top of the list, just need to find some going cheap now.
If those German Formulas had been silver, they'd have been perfect! Will have a look to see if I can see them elsewhere. Else it looks like a hunt for a second hand Hope trials hub. Though, for my purposes a dished Pro would be strong enough and given how easily the can be had second hand...I wonder how many freehub you would need to eat/replace before the Trials would make economic sense.