Hope has an all-new RX stem designed to drop your gravel dropbars or decrease your XC cockpit. And naturally, it comes within the colourful Hope anodized vary, plus a brand new bronze so as to add a bit extra flash to your experience. Plus, they’ve added one other lacing choice to their gentle & huge alloy gravel wheels. And any more, tubeless setup of their carbon street & gravel wheels will likely be one step faster and cheaper…
Hope RX -15° machined alloy gravel & XC stem
Think about a light-weight machined alloy Hope XC stem, however slammed all the way down to get your bars decrease. That’s precisely what you get with the brand new RX, designing it for “a extra aggressive, race-focused geometry”.
Splitting the size distinction of the 0° XC stem, the brand new Hope RX stem is accessible in 80mm solely, and -15° rise, and designed for gravel or cross-country. Hope CNC-machines the 2014-T6 aluminium stem in-house in Barnoldswick, UK.
Pricing is identical because the cross-country model, as are the bolt choices. Choose up a RX stem with chrome steel bolts for £105 / $133 / 130€ beginning October 1st. Or for about £30 / 35€ further you’ll have the ability to improve to titanium bolts. Weights ought to be ~143g with metal bolts, 131g with ti {hardware}. The brand new Hope RX gravel stem is available in black, silver, crimson, blue, orange & purple ano, plus the newer bronze to match your Hope gravel hubs, headset, and upgraded brake calipers & rotors.
And in actuality, in case your XC bike wants a little bit of rise, you may at all times run the brand new RX the wrong way up for a +15° angle so long as you don’t thoughts it saying “adoy” on the aspect of your stem.
Extra Hope RX24 gravel wheel choices
The replace to Hope’s “lightest and widest” 700c alloy gravel wheel is a delicate one which’d be straightforward to overlook. Until you begin counting spokes in your buddies’ wheels. Sure, the innovation right here is 28 spokes – the proper compromise between 24 or 32 spokes. All false exaggeration apart…
Hope constructed a fairly gentle (from 1780g full with 24 spokes) 24mm inside x 23mm deep alloy wheelset for gravel riders with their glorious Professional 5 hubs, and initially supplied it this previous spring additionally with 32 spokes for heavier riders and loaded bikepacking.
However then, they realized that one thing within the center would supply the most effective of each worlds when it comes to lighter weight and added sturdiness.
Enter 28 spokes.
Additionally accessible from Oct 1 by way of Hope sellers, the RX24 gravel wheels now allow you to select 24, 28 & 32 double-butted black Sapim Race spokes and straight-pull or conventional J-bend. Then, choose your favourite shade for the Professional 5 hubs (similar colours as the brand new RX stem, and even Increase spacing when you want it), your freehub of alternative, and Hope laces them up with brass nipples.
The up to date RX24 wheels value the identical as earlier than – £230 / 300€ entrance & £350 / 450€ rear for J-bend, £270 / 360€ entrance & £390 / 515€ rear for straight-pull. They usually come pre-taped for tubeless and with Hope’s newest tubeless valves in matching colours.
RD40 carbon wheel tubeless replace too
OK, this one is tremendous minor, actually.
However the nonetheless tremendous slim at 19mm inside x 40mm deep RD40 is Hope’s solely carbon wheelset authorized for gravel. It was already designed for tubeless. However now while you purchase a RD40 wheelset it would include Hope’s newest tubeless tape and tubeless valves at no further value.
Right here constructed with sturdy carbon hubs, centerlock Professional 5 straight pull hubs, and 24 black aero bladed Sapim CX-Ray spokes – all from begin to end by hand in Barnoldswick. RD40 wheels promote for £650 / $820 / 825€ entrance & £725 / $915 / 925€ rear within the hub shade & freehub physique of your alternative by means of your native Hope sellers from October 1, 2024.
