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Hope Factory Tour June 4th


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Perfect summary from Dan although the rim brake isn't dot fluid he said remember as he said someone was using water in it.

Yeah he said it had been designed for use with dot fluid, but Kenny water bled his

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That looks like an insane pump track!

Surprised you got that many pics to be fair. Also what makes you think the parts aren't expensive anymore?

Because when you see the setup and what goes into making the parts you understand why it costs more money, one example was some oil they used in the cnc machines, a 1000L tank was 4 or 6 grand each, he said they can get some stuff for less than a quarter of the price but it gave off more fumes and was more toxic or something like that and he didn't want his staff to have to handle such products. Half a million pound machines and around £10 million in cnc's alone.

As Bing said they have 250 staff bikes all kitted out in hope gear and a full time mechanic just for staff bikes.

That pic of those forgings would make an epic computer background.

Funnily enough its now my phone wallpaper

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So do we

Because of the quality, and absolutely zero callbacks. If you have an issue with a part they have made, they will sort it out. There was an old mono trial brake on the bench that had come in for a refurb, it was like new. Try that with shimano stuff. Shimano stuff is cheap because it's massed produced in a factory in Taiwan by soulless machines. This stuff is lovingly hand built by proper northerners. Good enough for me

So you're giving up your saints now? ;)

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