craigjames

I've got a Brother CNC stem that I need to sell, it's basically a CNC TryAll K2. I bought some new Hashtagg carbon bars and they won't fit through the bar clamps due to the bars odd shape. My Jitsie bars fitted fine. I'll get some photos if you're interested.

That's pretty poor, hopefully it's a one off and not a mass manufacturing error. I was tossing up between this stem and the clean pro forged stem. Looks like my minds been made!

@Rusevelt The current scandal in the news is a Post Office issue, not Royal Mail. Post Office is government run Public Organisation, Royal Mail was privatised.

How regularly do you go through freewheels at the moment? Buy several as spares?

Some really good ideas there, be interesting to see how they hold up. Would ideal if they made a singlespeed version, looks like it could be adapted to fit a 116/120mm mod rear end too. £550 is a small stumbling block though.

There's a few on ebay for sale that would probably suit you: Adamant, GU, Echo As has been said, anything by Deng pre-08 would be the strongest option - Zoo! GU, Czar, Echo or Adamant

As has been said, if the shop you bought it from aren't helping then get into contact with Hope. Send them all the paperwork you have, emails from the shop, photos and video of the issue, and they will most likely request you send the hub back to them direct. Patience is key.

Fairly certain this wouldn't work. How would the stripped material be replaced? I think you need to wait for Hope to actually see the hub and assess it, or for the shop you bought it from to resolve the warranty issue; it's only been a week or two?

It's just plain odd.

Enjoyed that Alex, was that BFMV? Nice to see Joe and I make an appearance at the end there 😂

It might not be a through crack and is unlikely to allow light to pass through even if it is cracked all the way through. Removing the paint is the best way ahead, visual inspection and preferably LPI to confirm it is a crack in the tube.

Sounds like I9 or someone should develop a titanium axle kit. Would allow the flex without fatiguing as quickly as the aluminium axle. Does seem like an inherently flawed design though, especially so for trials. Not something i'd go for personally, but i do imagine the 690 POE feels great. Think i'd rather go for a Hope or for a mod, a Comas freehub.

Looks like Clean have made an official announcement that there was a manufacturing fault in the heat treatment of the ratchet ring leading to failures.

I did read that the Clean hub has had a few failures already, there are a few questionable design features, the Comas hub seems like a more solid design. High engagement point hubs have been readily available in the MTB world for a while now, like everything it just takes a bit of time for the technology to filter down to the trials world. I'd be interested to see if the new Hope Pro5 hub could be converted to mod sizing.

No you may be right, I thought the Limey 2 was the original in my mind; so you could very well be right. I can't even find a photo of an original Limey to compare.