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Thats that knackered then!
Anyone got a Hope Pro2 freehub spare?
Hope this isn't the one I'm buying 0_0
Order the stainless steel one if you're not going to use a better cassette.
What cassette you using?
That was a SRAM 980. I think its a fitting issue (its been run loose i'd imagine)
Bet the lockring was loose as well 🙂
Seen that before with a 980. Supposedly worst on the alu hope freehubs.
Will an SLX be ok on a Pro 2?
You need to go XT or SRAM 990
SLX is fine on a Pro 2- Hope's advice "XT or higher" is from before the SLX existed.
But don't worry rockthreegozy, the info that came with my hope hubs says that the marks that develop are only cosmetic 😉
i ran an SLX on my pro2... it ended up wedged stuck.. I had to beat it of with blocks and a mallet....
popped a new slx on my pro II the other day, it was starting to get chewed up a little by the sram one that was on prior..... nothing like that epic gouging though!
ah.. all this will be irrelevant when we all get those cool looking cassette freehub combination jobs they're making..
I'm running an XT and an SLX on Pro 2s just now, they both get stuck- it's the smaller rings which cause the problem though and they're essentially the same on both.
It might be ok if you get an alloy carrier cassette. Just had the same problem from using a SRAM 970 and I just popped a 990 on there which has the wider splined carrier. No problems since.
File down the gouged bits and pop on an XT cassette or SRAM 990 - it'll be fine.
Hope'll give you a new one
I run SLX on mine, prior to that an XT - The SLX is fine.
My mate has had a bogo Deore one on his Five and only suffered minor marks after over 12 months, just make sure the lock-nut is done up correctly.
Out of interest what is "done up correctly"
tight as ****
Expensive cassettes wouldn't have saved that, they only protect the freehub towards the center of the wheel, the smaller sprockets are always 'loose'.
I'm guessing either 1 or 2x9 and too much time hammering it in the smaller gears?
The ally freehub is soft as.. no other answer.
Why they would'nt just sell them with steel body like xc used to be i don't know.
Quite a lot of people would not be bothered about the weight difference.
Why did they give up on the Ti freehub body? Light and strong. Maybe not cheap, but far more appropriate material than alubloodyminium.
Actually why did they have to go and ditch the XC design? One of the best hubs ever made.
Silly Hope....
Yeah I'm gutted I sold my xc set with ti freehub to upgrade 🙁
And yes fred I do feel a bulbend for doin so lol
production costs/the drive for "progress" in a marketing driven speort where standards change over night.
hence the new hub complete with cross discipline compatibility... 150 etc. etc.
Thats why we got the pro2.
Posted this before, I think the best solution would be for Hope to make a freehub body like American Classic with a steel insert:
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No scoring then and would still be lighter than the steel freehub body.
And yes fred I do feel a bulbend for doin so lol
😀
You know it by now, don't you??
Thats blatantly been run loose, the marks that appear through normal use will make it harder to remove the cassette, but are basically cosmetic, as Hope says. This isn't a new problem, it was just brought to the masses with Pro 2s! I've been removing cassettes with a screwdriver for years on DT240s, Kings and Tunes.
The only cassette that will totally solve it is an XX or XG999, any other cassette still has loose sprockets at the bottom which will always dig in.
I have an sram 980 cassette on a hope pro2 hub,and it worked loose a couple of months ago, so thought I'd better take a look at it after seeing those pictures.
The cassette slid off fine with no extra force required, there were a few dents in the aluminium similar to the 3 small ones in the first pictures on this thread, but that was about it.
Will probably change it for a 990 when I replace the chain, I've tried an XT cassette, but I just bent the larger cogs through normal use, so I wont use one of those again.
Never ever had a stuck cassette. Put me off Pro 2's this has
Posted this before, I think the best solution would be for Hope to make a freehub body like American Classic with a steel insert:
Patented innit.
Still cheap-ish to replace the freehub body for the stainless steel one when needed. XT/XTR cassettes are silly expensive.
I still have my hope Ti xc hub.............. not a mark on it. 😀
brant - Member
Posted this before, I think the best solution would be for Hope to make a freehub body like American Classic with a steel insert:
Patented innit.
Makes sense that they're not doing it then 🙂
Over on Weight Weenies forum, some people have bodged in some carpenters staples to protect the edge of the splines:
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=497672#p497672
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