Trade: Hope Titanium BB and Middleburn Chainset (road)

Hi got a very little used hope sealed bearing bottom bracket, english thread, titanium axle and buttery smooth. Also a pair of Middleburn 170mm cranks with 53/42 Middleburn rings on Middleburn spider.

The combo has been used for a few timetrials but had no regular use so is in perfect condition. No wear to chainrings etc.

I am looking to swap for a more modern bb/chainset and of a similar high quality, purely for aestetics as I'm building up a carbon fibre bike for the summer.

If anyone has anything let me know.

Hello,
the thread is a little old but..
I 've got two questions about this HOPE bottom bracket:
-it is possible to open the bb for maintenance and grease it? (on shimano, on octalink it was possible with Dura ace, but not with ultegra).
-where it's possible to find the tool? And it's necessary to a have two keys?
(in other case I had the idea to build some thing that could do the job, a question of time..)

I "hope" my english is not too bad..

A question from France, bretagne.

Thank you.

Give the guys at Hope a call/email - they're very friendly and helpful, I'm sure there will sort you out.

Hello,
the thread is a little old but..
I 've got two questions about this HOPE bottom bracket:
-it is possible to open the bb for maintenance and grease it? (on shimano, on octalink it was possible with Dura ace, but not with ultegra).
-where it's possible to find the tool? And it's necessary to a have two keys?
(in other case I had the idea to build some thing that could do the job, a question of time..)

I "hope" my english is not too bad..

A question from France, bretagne.

Thank you.

+1 Just ring hope for questions.
They can service them if you post the BB back to them (bearing replacement), they don't charge much.
Also the special tool, you only need one of them but they are VERY rare (as they are the best tool you can get for removing old BB's with the 6pins).
Its an extremely high quality BB though, worth fixing ;)

You were right.
I've send them an e-mail and they are friendly
Information I get:

• bearings are replaceable
  
• they no longer produce the six pin tool for removing the cups from the frame
  
• they suggested me seeing if it is possible to find a used one
  (- if it is on a frame that has the normal bottom bracket threads then the right hand side will be a left and thread and the left hand side will be a right hand thread.)
  
  

-I've find there than that are sealed cartdridge bearings. So I suppose than it's maybe not possible to grease them. http://www.hopefrance.com/page_mep_force_56.html

So I think I'll maybe do nothing on the BB for the moment. The BB is enough smooth don't to take any risk to damage anything. (Carbon frame with aluminium)..

I would guess most good engineering workshops would be able to replace the bearings for you (just need a small bearing press) at a low cost (or maybe even pay them for their services with Beer).

Depends how much torque the BB needs to be fitted, but you could fit the BB with a Park Tools SPA 1
Goodluck.

It looks like the same tool Royce use...

It looks like the same tool Royce use...

I was just about to say exactly the same thing!http://www.genisysconsulting.co.uk/royce-uk/

Hm. Would they fit old Mavic BB's and hubs? Anyone?

Finally I've made my own tool...
It was more funny to build it than it was useful..Because in fact the bearings of the bottom bracket are like new...:)

Excellent piece of work!

So its a nut with 6x holes drilled through it, allen bolts fitted and the ends of them turned down until small enough? Its certainly much better than the weak ass fail tool I made (ISIS BB spanner with ends of old drill bits strapped to it).

Glad to hear the bearings were OK, some say that the bearings hope used in the 90s are of higher quality than the bearings they use now.
I have a pair of 1996/7 Ti Glide hubs (not disc compatible unfortunately) that have had 10k+ off road miles put on them (3 sets of rims & spokes!!!!) and all I've had to do in that time was replace ONE freewheel spring and clean/grease the freewheel a few times. Amazing quality.

+1, nice job pesked.

I read this thread before, but didn't realise at the time that I'm pretty sure I've got a Hope BB tool, back from 1997ish when I used to have a Hope Ti BB. Oops. I'd better have a look in my toolbox.