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I've seen few cracks on messengers bikes. Ride it all year, never clean it sort of bikes.
Still hope honored every one of them.
Hope are still nice affordable hubs.
I used to not like their hubs for various reasons but they seemed to up the game recently.
Moral of a story is that bad batch of products can happen to any brand.
Let's not get me started on Enve :)
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Hope are still nice affordable hubs.
I still use them on other wheels and I am happy to do so. Trouble is, on this build a hub failure means several thousand pounds down the drain, a holiday ruined and potentially a few hundred miles to walk back to the airport!
At the moment, it's looking like a straight fight between White Industries and Velo Orange, if Velo Orange are able to get back to me and confirm the axle's steel not ali.
Hi sent you a pm about pictures and more detail on the tubeless carbon rims.
I have used hope for years and so have my mates and never seen cracks like them !