The Fatso is designed to eliminate flex from wobbly suspension forks. The oversized hub body serves as support for the legs, increasing the forks tracking in corners and eliminating brake rub on sprints. The Fatso has sealed aircraft bearings, ensuring a smooth ride no mattet the conditions. To top it off, this amazing hub features Hopes' lifetime warranty.
Submitted by
Hardcore Rob
a Weekend Warrior
from Derby Date Reviewed: May 7, 2002
Favorite Trail:
secret
Duration Product Used:
6 months
Price Paid:
$80.00
Purchased At:
shop
Strengths:
Stiff, lightweight,lovely in blue with a blue bomber fork and blue allen key skewer! Cheap
Weaknesses:
Nothing yet!
Similar Products Used:
Alivio
Bike Setup:
Trailstar,Z3 flylights, maggie front, 521CD's, lx, stx rc azonic bar and stem, dmr seat, pedals etc
Bottom Line:
Tracking round corners, stiff sexy colours. Bearings super smooth- no vibrations like shimano.Nuff said!
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Submitted by
Jim
a Cross Country Rider
from Brighton, East Sussex, UK Date Reviewed: April 15, 2002
Favorite Trail:
Jersey Lane
Duration Product Used:
More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$60.00
Strengths:
strong, lightweight, maintainance free, cheap for how long it lasts.
Weaknesses:
none found yet.
Similar Products Used:
all sorts
Bike Setup:
hardtail
Bottom Line:
I've had this hub 5 years. It has had no maintainance whatsoever. It still works like it was brand new. (The rear ti-glide is just the same).
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Submitted by
James Bywater
a Cross Country Rider
from London, UK Date Reviewed: April 23, 2001
Duration Product Used:
More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$100.00
Purchased At:
Noel Craft Cycles, Lincs, UK
Strengths:
Very strong! Good looks. No maintenance
Weaknesses:
None
Similar Products Used:
LX hubs, and crappy stock ones.
Bike Setup:
Proflex 957 with XT and a few nice bits.
Bottom Line:
My mate crashed my old Proflex XP-8 off a 10ft cliff. The front rim, spokes, and fork just snapped like a twig, and the frame was a bit bent too! The hub survived and I am still using it in a new wheel!
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Submitted by
Neeek
a Weekend Warrior
from Sydney, Australia Date Reviewed: April 11, 2001
Favorite Trail:
Secret...
Duration Product Used:
2 Years
Price Paid:
$90.00
Strengths:
Light Strong Stiff Beautifully made Maintenance free
Weaknesses:
Not disc compatible
Similar Products Used:
Shimano LX/DX/XT/XTR hubs, other Hope hubs
Bike Setup:
Alma - custom built alu chassis, Judy SL, XTR, Syncros, back in 1996...
Bottom Line:
I used this hub for over 2 years. I never touched it. Never pulled it apart. It did it's job, looked great, stayed smooth as anything. Absolutely faultless. For V-brake users with suspension forks, this is the without doubt in my mind, the finest front hub ever made.
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Submitted by
Ben (ICEMAN) Estdale
a Weekend Warrior
from Dover, Kent, England. Date Reviewed: September 28, 2000
Totally solid rock hard piece of kit. nothing short of a miracle could have survived some of the stacks that I have had but the Fatso has survived and laughed at all of my mortal attempts to kill it. UNBREAKABLE, Hope Rock!!!
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Submitted by
BRANDON GOULD
a Cross Country Rider
from NEWARK, DE Date Reviewed: July 10, 2000
Favorite Trail:
CRACK HEAD BOB
Duration Product Used:
6 months
Strengths:
SIMPLE
Weaknesses:
NONE
Similar Products Used:
HOPE ULTRA LIGHT (5 YEARS NO PROBLEM)
Bike Setup:
OWL HOLLOW
Bottom Line:
LACED UP THIS HUB TO A SUN CR18 WITH MARWI TI SPOKES. THE WHEEL IS NOTCIABLY STIFFER THAN MY LAST AND IS GREAT ON 100MM TRAVEL FORKS. MAINTENANCE IS CAKE AND THE SEALS ARE GREAT. PREVIOUSLY HAD THE HOPE ULTRLIGHT AND IT IS STILL SMOOTH AS BUTTER AFTER 5 YEARS OF HARD RIDING. THIS COULD BE MY LAST FRONT HUB EVER. MIGHT NOT BE SUPER LIGHT WEIGHT BUT WHATS A FEW GRAMS FOR BEING BOMBPROOF.
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Submitted by
Rob Valentine
a Downhiller
from Banbury UK Date Reviewed: June 8, 2000
Favorite Trail:
as long as it's technical and down hill it's cool
Duration Product Used:
2 Years
Strengths:
light strong lasted for 18 ,months with out a service (although i probably should service it) and it is still going strong. lasts a life time (probably,and hopefully (sorry about the pun)
Weaknesses:
pirce £60 sterling in real money, it's alot for a hub, but if it lasts for ever, who cares, no disc mounts
Similar Products Used:
specialized crap
Bike Setup:
'99 orange airo, marzocchi z3 long travel forks, built on to mavic d521 rims with DT spokes, (donno what gauge)
Bottom Line:
this hub rules, the only time i'll replace it is when i will get the equally good hope disc brakes. i liked this hub so much i even went and got a bulb hub on the rear, (havn't got it yet, reveiw when i have ridden it though a british winter), these hubs can suvive a british winter unlike most hubs which are designed and tested in california. (listen hib manufaturers, test your hubs in a british winter, 'cause then you'll have a decent well sealed hub, with california it's dry all the time) it also stiffened up the manitou spyders i had before this hub (which is quite a feat)
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