Hope Technology Factory Tour - Video

 makes me proud to be british see all that kit being so well made

 It's about time that hope made a boss crown, and also coloured the cottom crowns for all double/triple crown forks

 I've never seen a "triple" crown.... sounds interesting.

 Tbh i have no idea as to the difference between a double and triple crown fork. The old monster T's flash into my head but other than that I have only heard the name

 there's no such thing as triple crown, only triple tree = double crown.

btw lol @ Keep it civil! Be constructive and on-topic.

 James, there's only two kinds of forks: Dual crown and single crown. The crown being the chunk of aluminum(or aluminium if you work at Hope, apparently) that holds the stanchion tubes and steerer tube. A dual crown would also have one above the frame as well. A DH fork.
And that's as civil as I can be while biting my tongue...

 Its a triple clamp if you wish. Its what all the motocrossers call their fork crowns. one clamp for each stanchion and one for the steerer. Although the steerer is pressed into the lower crown just like a mountain bike lower crown.

 www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

 Nicely put TommyT712 nicely put mate.

 you could technically call the bridge between the lowers of a fork a crown too, and then you could have triple crowns. But then you couldn't have single crowns, b'c those would be double crowns

 you don't want to know what we think of you lot then

 ugh bitch fights annoy me

 @ dirteveryday, we dont really drink that much tea, I'm a coffe guy anywho. Also you may think we're snobby tarts but at least we didn't vote an imbecile like George Bush to run our country...

 Barn, we voted for Gordon Brown instead XD haha

 @ jamesrusby, I thought that too but I was hoping no one would think of that...

 Both are good within their own specific areas, just not at being world leaders

 Haha, made me laugh

 Couldn't have hit the nail more on the head buddy!

 So true, its not as though Canada is short of these kinds of companies though

 Generally goes to Advertising, Sponsorships, and paying the much larger employee base. It didn't say in the film, but Hope seemed to be pretty small when compared to larger companies like Mavic, SRAM, Shimano, etc.. So in short.. smaller overhead allows for an equally profitable percentage without having to cut costs in production.

 The cool reality is that the CNC machine cost the same all round the globe, so the only real difference is in setting up a factory is rent and staffing costs. But once you've developed a manufacturing process that is robotised the staffing cost come down and your products can be competitively priced. Also with all the staff being passionate cyclist lots of creative ideas will come from in house and people are willing to work for longer as they are passionate about the final product.

 But what about standard running costs like electricity, routine maintenance, or taxes. I wonder if there's a significant enough difference between countries, or access to parts and what not that factors into whether a company can stay in house or has to outsource. I've always like Hope parts, but having worked in a bike shop and seen some of the profit margins, alot of Companies like Race Face, Truvativ, Sunline, Avid, Shimano etc... are more profitable for bike shops to sell in America because they don't have to pay as much in overseas shipping. But after coming to Europe I've seen alot more products like POC, Hope,etc.. because these companies are more local to the European market.

 My granddad had a set of hope hubs on mavic rims. He had them for 15 years and know I have them. They've never had a bearing change and they still run perfect. Like new. They are an awesome brand!

 www.mpora.com/gear/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Hope-Pedals.jpg


Coming soon with cranks !!!

 yep dude, this is really sick. Hope is definetly one of the greatest component company for me. Good job guys