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Submitted by
lee black
a Weekend Warrior
from lake district
Date Reviewed: 12/20/2007 10:11:05 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | all over grizedale |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | lbs |
| Strengths: | none, originals were good |
| Weaknesses: | don't have any bite/don't lock-up and no stopping power |
| Similar Products Tried: | ebc |
| Bike Setup: | orange patriot |
| Bottom Line: | too expensive and not safe!! Hope should really swap your crap pads for better ones but hey like that'll happen???????? |
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Submitted by
Al
a Cross Country Rider
from U.K
Date Reviewed: 1/28/2006 3:57:59 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Glentress |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | None |
| Weaknesses: | Lousey pads. Really bad grip. Like No real power. |
| Bottom Line: | Sad pads these are! I made the mistake of getting 2 sets for front and back. Front were just passable but the back were pathetic! Another change of pad supplier from Hope and it gets me worried because it means that Hope change the supplier on price and not quality issues. Very not impresses! I run Fibrax now and the original performance is back. |
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Submitted by
Nathan
a Cross Country Rider
from B.C Canada
Date Reviewed: 10/27/2005 6:22:07 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | I thinking |
| Weaknesses: | No stopping power. Almost No grip at all. White knuckle braking to get them to stop me. |
| Similar Products Tried: | EBC, Fibrax and previous Hope pads. |
| Bottom Line: | Awesome!!.....Truely rubbish. These new pads from Hope....I can't even lock up the wheels!!! My "V" brakes in the wet were better than these. Come on Hope! |
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Submitted by
Jimmy Dolan
a Cross Country Rider
from Manchester U.K
Date Reviewed: 10/19/2005 3:16:29 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Karrimore |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Strengths: | Difficult to see any. |
| Weaknesses: | No real grip to these pads. Lousey braking, like a bad set of V brakes with these on. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Oldaer Hope pads, EBC and Fibrax. |
| Bike Setup: | Spec Enduro |
| Bottom Line: | These latest offerings from Hope are one lousey set of pads. No grip to these at all and in the wet....what a joke. I tried everything to make them work. I'm stunned that a company can supply replacement pads that is so much worse than the pads that came with the brakes. Expensive and trash!!! |
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Submitted by
Mark Flanagan
a Cross Country Rider
from Lakewood CO USA
Date Reviewed: 8/22/2005 11:09:57 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Strengths: | N.A. |
| Weaknesses: | Put a black film on my rotor. Made the brakes howl. |
| Similar Products Tried: | EBC Green and Gold |
| Bike Setup: | uzzisl |
| Bottom Line: | Wow, these might be the worst pads I have used to date. I knew the Hope has been getting pads from a bunch of different supliers. I thought I would give their newest pads a try. My old ebc green or gold pads had been working great. I installed these pads my rotors turned black and the noise volume was just crazy. I spoke to hope. They told me that the pads and rotors must have gotten oil on them. This is my third year on discs and I keep my rotors and pads clean. Anyway, I followed their technical fix. Run the rotors in the discwasher I mean dishwasher and sand down the pads. Believe it or not the noise came back almost imediatly. |
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Submitted by
Joel
a Cross Country Rider
from Nantes Francais
Date Reviewed: 2/5/2005 11:07:49 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Weaknesses: | They are very bad at strong braking. No friction on the pad gives weak brakes. |
| Bottom Line: | The pad is not good fro strong brakes and the friction is bad so you get no power. The pads are expensive and so you think will be good and give power at the brakes but they do not, they cost a lot and are no good. |
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Submitted by
Dave Barrow
a Weekend Warrior
from Yorkshire U.K
Date Reviewed: 1/29/2005 2:17:04 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | The next challenge |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | They are better ont the front than the back where you get no stopping power. |
| Weaknesses: | Lousey pads.Stunningly bad grip. This is another one of Hope's messing about and choosing different pad makers. |
| Bottom Line: | Don't buy unless you want to turn good brakes into bad. |
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Submitted by
Nigel
a Racer
from Montreal
Date Reviewed: 1/27/2005 9:46:11 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | Not a thing |
| Weaknesses: | No braking ability in these pads. |
| Similar Products Tried: | EBC, original Hope pads, Fibrax |
| Bottom Line: | Consign these pads to the bin, they are dross. It must be true that Hope have a new pad supplier because I never remember them being this bad. Do not buy these pads if you want good performance from your brakes. |
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Submitted by
Dirtboy
a Cross Country Rider
from U.K
Date Reviewed: 1/27/2005 3:44:47 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Coed-y-Brenin |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | lbs |
| Strengths: | These Hope pads are really poor. |
| Weaknesses: | They do not give enough grip at all and you just grab the levers harder and harder with no increase in braking power. I've tried 2 sets of these thinking that my first set might be contaminated....absolute trash! |
| Bottom Line: | Do not buy these pads if you want descent braking power. Come on Hope...What is going on!!! |
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Submitted by
J Twist
a Weekend Warrior
from England
Date Reviewed: 1/26/2005 9:40:59 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Glenntress |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | None |
| Weaknesses: | Lousey grip. Expensive and just don't do the job! |
| Similar Products Tried: | Fibrax, Aztec, EBC and original Hope. |
| Bottom Line: | These pads are garbage!! I complained to Hope and they said that they have changed their Disc pad supplier. Oh so that makes it alright. The pads before this were very good but theses just don't bite on the disc they are quite annoyingly pathetic and dangerously underpower the system. |
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Submitted by
Carlos Sparenberg
a Cross Country Rider
from Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Date Reviewed: 6/17/2004 12:14:20 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Waller Mill |
| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Price Paid: | $18 |
| Purchased At: | HDKCycles |
| Strengths: | Good balance of braking power and durability |
| Weaknesses: | -Much pricier than aftermarket pads -Squeaky front brake |
| Similar Products Tried: | Rim brakes only |
| Bike Setup: | Seven Sola Ti SS frame w/Rohloff hub |
| Bottom Line: | Compared to reviews for other pads, these are not excessively grabby nor do they fall apart after a couple of rides. Probably worth the extra money. |
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