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Hope Skewers

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Hope Skewers
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Average Rating: 3 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 7
RRP: £14.99
Year: 2001

Description: Wheel QR Skewers. Extra long cro-moly rods. Laser etched alloy handles. True QR cam action. Delrin low friction insert. Serrated alloy nut with Nylock. Black anodised.

REVIEWS

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Andy Henderson

Posted: 21/06/01

'Bullet Proof'

Strengths:
Lightweight, made from Titanium. Strong good colours but very nickable. Watch where you leave your bike.

Weaknesses:
Nickable. Expensive

Overall:
The bank manager will cry with despair!

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

87%

Matthew Page

Posted: 05/07/01

'Gorgeous!!'

Strengths:
Lightweight, Really easy to tighten. Colours are lush!!

Weaknesses:
Price.. and as above, very nickable, if u leave ur bike about..

Overall:
I got these to go with my hope hubs, at first i was going to go for a plain black but instead decided to get the red.. they are divine! really look classy. Finishing touch to a Hope hubbed bike! Looks mean everything!

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

87%

Anthony Lee ( soon 2 own a lovly Fox Float RL Fork)

Posted: 24/03/02

'*LOVELY*'

Strengths:
Strong (I got the steel ones),
lightish,
look great,
good price,
smooth due to a very sexy brass seat,
do their job,
made in England,
the only ones that allow my thumbs to live!

Weaknesses:
I suppose they don't look as svelte as the Salsa, the Storck, or the Tunes (see them at poshbikes.com), but that said they are only 25 nicker.

Overall:
A perfect complimentary skewer if you own Hope hubs. If you like Hope, you must buy them. If you don't like Hope, you must buy them. Even if you fall of your bike when you buy a Hope product it's still worth it.

The brass seat means that you don't need to grease them, and when you put them on they stay on (unlike the legendarily *SHITE* X-Lite Camlocks).

They look the part too, and are available in blue, black, red, and silver (chrome like, not ano.).

The ultra-light Ti ones are 50 a pair,
but the more reliable steel ones are 25 to 30 a pair.

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

100%

Rich Cardwell

Posted: 09/09/02

'LOOK GOOD, BUT DON'T HOLD THE WHEEL IN!'

Strengths:
Look good.

Weaknesses:
Fail to hold the wheel in, mine seem to undo themselves
at the worst possible moment.
Check the forum, its not an uncommon fault.

Overall:
Not an item that you really want to fail on you, and
they do. So buy at your own risk!

Performance		40%
Reliability		40%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

47%

Rich Cardwell

Posted: 23/01/03

'LOOK NICE, DON'T WORK THOUGH.'

Strengths:
Look nice.

Weaknesses:
Undo by themselves.
Have to be done up insanely tight to get them to work.

Overall:
Buy them at your own risk, they have a nasty habit of undoing themselves. So if you do buy them check they every ride or you WILL hurt yourself.

Performance		20%
Reliability		20%
Value		40%

Overall Rating

27%

Aidan Harding

Posted: 06/03/03

'NOT IN THE LEAST BIT QUICK'

Strengths:
Look nice, say Hope on them, cheap by pimpy QR standards

Weaknesses:
Need to be done up really, really tight

Overall:
These look great, but you really have to go for function over form. I have the steel version, and they feel much less secure than Shimano Deore skewers.

When I try to tighten them, part of the clamp tends to move and catch on the lips of my fork dropout, making putting the front wheel on a fiddly process. When I get past that, the cam action is poor meaning that you have to do them up really tight. So tight that I have to lie my bike on the ground to get enough leverage to get the things on/off.

Having paid £25, I'm planning to cut my losses, get some Shimano skewers, and consign these to the bin.

Performance		20%
Reliability		20%
Value		40%

Overall Rating

27%

Ian Heald

Posted: 26/06/03

'EXPENSIVE CLASS'

Strengths:
Light
Colour range
ease of use
match the other hope odds and sods scattered around the bike

Weaknesses:
None so far - normally I would say expense (Xmas pressie).

Overall:
Got the Ti ones as a Xmas pressie to go with the new wheelset (X317 with XT hubs) - I've had no problems with them coming off or having to have them incredibly tight to work. Lovely movement and a massive range of colours - just a tad expensive