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My Hope Pro II Evos are 6 years old,been rebuilt with new rims several times, have survived numerous crashes, cased jumps, including one very bad casing that cracked my fork steerer, broke my headset, nearly braking me, and there have been no problems. I really like Hope hubs.
I was more stating that many, many well known hubs have failure issues, whilst conceding that the pictures of the Hope hubs failing and cracking almost the full length of the hub shell is rather special.
But so far mine haven't failed so I'm alright Jack.
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Howard
Yes, Royce hubs come with a yellow leaflet explaining not to lace radially, clearly it was ignored. That said, if other manufacturers are happy with radial lacing on their 20 H hubs (including Hope), then what does it say about Royce shells?
Funnily enough I recall a rear DT 240 hub failing on the non drive side flange in one of their handbuild Mon Chasseral wheels, which you can't blame high tension for. Low tension is just as bad, if the spoke loses tension and the head is allowed to dig and grind in the hole at every revolution.
My comment re. Hope hubs failures and jumping is because I know Hope is very popular among downhill riders, trial and all sorts extreme bike users... I don't think you can experience such a catastrophic failure out of nowhere, "just riding along" so to speak... in the same way as carbon frames don't open up in half while you are riding, but they might do so if you crash against a bus