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Hope Prototype cranks spotted!
- Thread starter Trekrules
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black. i know, not the coolest color they ever put out
Quite true. We saw trucks loaded with aluminum ingots rolling through Spokane every day from the Kaiser smelter to their nearby rolling mill for decades. It all starts as molten material poured into molds.
A short explanation of forging vs. extruding that I found helpful:
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36415
Kooka, I had a pair.
I miss the days when there was people that could do good anodize.
I miss the days when there was people that could do good anodize.
Tyler at Twenty6 does a great job.
had an old team issue Fat Chance come in the shop with these on it
had a matching King 1" headset
had a matching King 1" headset
^^^ that's awesome. got any more pics?
just a couple more, he brought the frame in to swap the crapped out Manitou fork for a rigid. The rigid fork was still in the plastic wrapping and never used.
I would have taken more but the guy was rushing me to get the fork swapped and I ran into issues with the brake.
The fork had 1991 on it.
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^^^THAT is awesome.
I remember those old press-fit BB bearings, gawddamn they were a pain the butt when they seized.
And they sure had some fugly paint jobs back then. Good quality work but so many tragic color choices and combo's.
I remember those old press-fit BB bearings, gawddamn they were a pain the butt when they seized.
And they sure had some fugly paint jobs back then. Good quality work but so many tragic color choices and combo's.
tragic? try awesome. This has given me ideas for my trail bike.
It's a fine line man. I was rocking '80's freestyle colors and I still thought some of those custom Yo Eddy! jobs were horrible.
Anyway, uh yeah, Hope cranks...
I used to work at the aerospace company that made the raw forgings for raceface. They were not cheap. On a crank that sees every surface machined again, it is cheaper to make it from extruded block.
When you do the math, turning block into chips is pretty damn cheap.
Looks like one to me.
i want my next kit to be 80's anti-freeze green
I thought it was a RS but the guy swore the team issue forks were a Manitou something.
That pink thing is a Rock Shox fork, Manitou looks completly different.
A guy had the green Yo eddy back in the day and dropped it off at the bike shop every winter for a full rebuild, I wanted that bike so bad.
I tried to buy it from him but he said it was his wife's and she would never part with it.
my '90 Klein (kids trailer puller currently) w/ cook bros cranks:
I counted 30 teeth on the silver chainring, despite what the captions say. Not sure what I think about a new BCD for a single ring crank, maybe make the cranks compatible with existing BMX style chainrings. Does anyone know if that would work? I've never used BMX cranks.
It is just a prototype after all so can't complain too much about questionable new standards.
Remember, Manitou's from that era were all machined. Not a cast piece on them.
When you squease the brakes does that turn off the light?
Looks like the brakes open when you tug the chain.
Fun to see these cool old bikes. This was before I could afford a mountain bike, but I had a fred meyer mountain bike with aluminum rims, three peice cranks and cantilever brakes. I thought it was sooo cool. I special ordered some of these and it was pimp:
I love how a thread about a new product from Hope has turned into a thread about cool old products! I wonder if that means Hope cranks are destined to become classics!?!