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We've assembled a small team for 2012 of riders who are all co-sponsered - as you can't get far on just a pair of wheels, its our first year to do something more formal so something we hope can grow. We have 5 mtb riders from a mixture of categories.
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Tom  Bell
Category - Elite men, ranked 9th in 2011.
Tom is riding for MSC bikes and Just Riding Along.
Wheels : Tom has gone for the instock racers favorite of American Classic Hubs on NoTubes Podium rims.
Tom was ranked 9th in Elite Men last year and riding full time in 2012.  With plans to race in the UK National Points series and in Europe this season as well as regional UK races.
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Melanie Alexander
Category - Elite women
Melanie is riding for Cyclopedia and Just Riding Along
Wheels:  Mel is riding a 29er this year and we've built up the American Classic hubs on NoTubes Crest rims with Sapim CX-Ray spokes and purple nipples.
Mel finished 3rd overall Elite in British Mountain Bike Series 2011 and is racing in 2012 as well as writing her blog on XC Racer website.
Mels first ride on her new wheels:
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We've had some nice feedback recently so we thought we'd add some to our blog, normally we're the modest type but here are some recent happy customers.

This post was posted in Just Riding Along, wheelsets, new articles and was tagged with NoTubes, Hope, gold, customer

Q: I'm after a set of light weight road wheels for summer use I'm 65Kg and have been looking at stans alpha 340 rims but not sure on spoke count or type i.e. sapim or DT's for my weight. Also not exactly sure on hub type I have looked at hope pro 3 & american classic appear light. I'm hoping for  around 1300g for the set. My budget is £600 Can you advise from the details provided and help point me in the right direction, I ride about 4/5 sportive's a year and ride in europe. I only need wheels for summer better weather.
A: To get the weight under 1300g and keep the price to £600, it would definitely need to be the Alpha 340 rims. Hope Pro 3 hubs are not particularly light; you would not get the wheels under 1300, more like 1350g with 28h front and rear (the lowest drilling the Pro 3 go to). American Classic road front hubs come in two flavours, the Micro 58 which is just about the lightest hub you can get at 58g, or the 105g "105" (a large flange hub similar to the mountain bike ones). At 65kg and using...[ continue reading >> ]

We took some of our newest and latest wheels to the Bespoked hand made bicycle show in Bristol. The Enve carbon wheelsets (both mountain bike and road) were predictably the main attraction for a lot of people, but the second most popular wheels were at the other end of the price scale - Miche road hubs on Ambrosio road rims for £244. Other MTB highlights were cherry red Crests, 650b's, triplet spoke lacing and Alfine 11spds. On the road side, Chris King R45 hubs built on Alpha 340 rims were looking good.

We have recreated the show in our own yard, some of the wheels are now for sale at a small discount, but all are available as custom builds to your own specification. There will be a part 2 coming soon with the rest.

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Pro 2 Evo wheel builds are now available here with selected rims at reduced prices, or you can spec a fully custom build in the custom wheelbuilder.

NEW INSTOCK BUILD
Our new instock Hope ProII hub on NoTubes ZTR Arch EX rim offers great value with the Super Comp spokes at the same price as our Competition spokes prices from £353 here > with the ZTR ArchEX 29er for just £356. All hub/ rim colour and axle combinations available for no extra charge.

Hope's Pro 2 hub hasn't changed a whole lot in many years so the new EVO (for Evolution) which replaced the standard Pro 2 last week has been generating a lot of interest. There's not a lot of definitive information out there about the changes, so we've been finding out about them.

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