All common systems are covered with this upgrade unit - making it ideal for Shimano, Race Face and others. The machined aluminium cups hold either full stainless steel cartridge bearings, or ceramic bearings in stainless races.

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Customer Reviews for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

Review 1 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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coley1

City: Edinburgh

Featured Review

Date:March 27, 2010

Engineering perfection!

Pros: Adjustable, Attractive, Durable, Good Fit, High Quality, Lightweight, Rugged

"Love Hope stuff and their bottom bracket is no exception. Its very well made and great quality. Crank now feels silky smooth on the stainless steel bearings and the cup colour, mine are blue now match my hope front and rear hubs.
If you are fed up with continuously replacing grit filled seized bottom bracket bearings then go and fit one of these. Bearings are replaceable so when they do eventually get worn out then refurbishment will be simple and swift.
Fitting the bottom bracket was very easy and the quality of the machined threads screwed perfectly into my bottom bracket shell. Comes with o rings so will fit 68 and 73 shells. Would recommend this.
Hope customer service are also 100% and great how to fit video's on their web site to show you how to put on their parts."

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Review 2 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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TheDigster

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Date:March 15, 2010

Hope BB.

Pros: Attractive, Comfortable, Durable, Good Fit, Great Value, High Quality, Lightweight, Rugged, Versatile, customer support

"I found the Hope BB (Stainless) excellent value and top Northern engineering quality that you'd expect from those awesome people in the wrong side of the Pennines !!! I've never fit a BB before never mind a Hope one. So I thought I'd treat myself to one. The instructions that came with the BB were very clear but I instead used the workshop videos via the HOPE website. I'd recommend viewing these as they are very well produced and the technician isn't one of these Tw#ts that you so often get doing these sorts of things. Excellent top class stuff form Hope - from the quality of the product to the fantastic customer support via the website. PS. I've phoned Hope before about their brakes and the phone support is the best I've ever had anywhere. A Yorkshire bloke is very happy with Lancashire things !!!!"

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Review 3 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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Intificio

Featured Review

Date:February 21, 2010

Highest tech out there

Pros: Attractive, Durable, Great Value, High Quality, Lightweight, Rugged

"Hope have cracked how to make a good bottom bracket.

They have two technical advantages:

1: the bearing is custom, so no plastic shim, and larger bearing.
2: the thing is waterproof

So stronger BBs held is a waterproof design.

Hope have won on this design."

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Review 4 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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Relfy91

City: Canterbury

Country:United Kingdom

Age:Under 18

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Regular

Gender:Male

Budget:Value for money

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Mountain Biker

Date:October 18, 2009

Pros: Attractive, Durable

"Since i bought my bike, i think i must have been through 3 or 4 bottom brackets, and thats within a year. I was sick and tired of them breaking all the time. Previously, it was cheap Truvativ b/bs and they just broke.
So, i decided to spend a little extra and got this and IT'S DEFINATELY WORTH IT. This is a fantastic b/b, I will update this review after a hard winters riding but so far, this is an ultimate holdfast component. Definately worth the buy.
[Bear in mind if you have a truvativ cranset that you also need the adapter spacers, but they are only a tenner.]"

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Review 5 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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CrankyMonkey

City: Melbourne

Country:Australia

Age:35-44

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Advanced

Gender:Male

Budget:Quality first

Mountain Biker

Date:May 21, 2012

Another Top Quality Hope Product

Pros: Durable, High Quality, Lightweight

Cons: Expensive

"I bought the Stainless Steel Hope BB to replace a Truvativ GXP BB which gave up on me after about six months. The Hope one has been fitted for over a year now and has had hard use in multiple enduro and 24hr events, some of which were muddy as. The BB has been submerged in river and bog crossings, been subjected to -5deg to +45 deg heat and still runs sweet and smooth. Remember the GXP shim which needs to be fitted to the drive side bearing if you want to continue to run Truvativ cranks. Hope make this shim also so no dramas there. It is perhaps a bit more expensive than others available, but this is yet another great Hope product and to be honest, I don't think I would buy another brand for BB after this one - it really is that good. Period."

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Review 6 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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vBullet

Date:March 19, 2012

Gran calidad

Pros: Duradero, Atractivo, Alta calidad, Resistente, Buen ajuste

Cons: Caro

"Cansado de que el eje original (Truvativ) se me estropease cada poco tiempo me he gastado el triple de dinero en estos Hope que espero me duren más del triple. Además se puede reponer cada uno de sus componentes no como los Truvativ que no había manera de encontrar rodamientos de esas medidas."

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Review 7 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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stevedm

City: sheffield

Country:United Kingdom

Age:45-54

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Advanced

Gender:Male

Mountain Biker

Date:February 8, 2012

Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

Pros: Durable, Attractive, High Quality

"Top bit of kit havE used this for over 8months and it is still working like new. Very pleased with it"

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Review 8 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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TimboNBD

Date:December 30, 2011

Great quality

Pros: Rugged, High Quality, Lightweight

"I've only had this fitted for a month or so, but based on my experience with the hope hubs, I bought this as a fit and mostly forget item. Was fed up of the Shimano ones wearing out every year or so. I'm confident it'll last for aaages, and when it starts wearing out, I'll replace the bearings and it'll continue on . . .

Fitted it myself (following the Hope instructional video on youtube) and it was very simple."

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Review 9 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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kevj

City: Queanbeyan

Country:Australia

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Regular

Mountain Biker

Date:December 21, 2011

Super quality

"This is beautifully made and so easy to fit. Having a choice of colours adds a little bling to the bike. Had it on for a while now and not a murmur from it. Way better than the original Shimano bottom bracket."

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Review 10 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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Nigel753

Date:October 29, 2011

Hope BB

Pros: High Quality, Good Fit

"Bought this because wanted something that was going to last and could replace bearings.The Shimano XT BB I had previously developed quite a bit of play after 5200 miles, this was with 99% road use + bike looked after. Done about 200 miles on Hope BB at moment - very smooth, one or 2 clicks from it and clears quickly, nothing to be concerned about. May need adjustment on crank arm. Overall would recommend on Hope reputation."

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Review 11 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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WaitForPete2

City: Reading

Date:October 14, 2011

Lasts very well

Pros: Durable, Great Value, Attractive, High Quality, Rugged, Lightweight

"I have had one of these on my hack bike for FOUR YEARS. It gets ridden HARD around twice a week all year round.
The bearings are still PERFECT, you can still spin the crank with your little finger and it will keep going.

The difference is that Hope do not use plastic spacers and do use real bearings rather than bearing-shaped objects."

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Review 12 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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robysam

Country:United Kingdom

Age:35-44

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Regular

Gender:Male

Budget:Quality first

Mountain Biker

Date:October 14, 2011

easy to fit - great Hope quality

Pros: Durable, High Quality, Rugged, Lightweight, Good Fit

"Early days so far - got this as replacement for Shimano XT BB which to be fair lasted around 4 years of hard but infrequent riding. Have other Hope components which have maintained performance over time so am hoping for the same with the BB."

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Review 13 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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Skog

City: Wakefield, UK

Date:October 11, 2011

A new Hope

Pros: Durable

"Ordered as a replacement for the old shimano external BB which only lasted a winter and 2500 miles.

Hopefully, the quality and robustness of Hope products will ensure this outlasts it's replacement, and cost less in the long run, as external BBs don't tend to last that long for me.

Fitting was easy with the right tools, although the chainline was slightly different to the old product, requiring a slight tweak of the front mech."

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Review 14 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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maxwell

City: bucks

Country:United Kingdom

Age:35-44

Interest:Road Cyclist

Level:Advanced

Gender:Male

Budget:Value for money

Road Cyclist

Date:October 7, 2011

Excellent SRAM alternative with GXP inserts

Pros: Durable, Rugged, High Quality, Versatile

"I have been using this with the gxp converter inserts for the past year on SRAM chainsets including my Quarq powermeter. Great alternative to the SRAM bottom bracket as the one I had only lasted a couple of months.

After a year of use it has needed the bearings replacing which was a 5 minute job.

Great example of British Engineering."

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Review 15 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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SparkySparky

Date:October 4, 2011

Good, reliable product

Pros: Durable, High Quality, Rugged

"Has lasted much longer than my original XTR bottom bracket. Was going to purchase the Hope ceramic version or a Chris King but thought I would take a gamble on the 'cheaper' option.
Still running smoothly after 18 months and bearings are replaceable so it should be cheap to keep running for years to come."

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Review 16 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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OrangeAddict

City: Oxford

Country:United Kingdom

Age:45-54

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Advanced

Gender:Male

Mountain Biker

Date:September 2, 2011

Great Product

Pros: Durable, Attractive, High Quality, Lightweight, Good Fit

Cons: Expensive

"Light, robust, (relatively) easy to install. Only thing to bear in mind is to pull it out and re-grease regularly if you're putting Aluminium in contact with steel"

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Review 17 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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NottsPaul

City: Nottingham

Country:United Kingdom

Age:35-44

Interest:Cross Country MTB

Level:Regular

Gender:Male

Budget:Quality first

Mountain Biker

Date:June 30, 2011

Great Product

Pros: Durable, Attractive, High Quality, Rugged, Good Fit

"I have had two of these on bikes for over 2 years, out twice a week in all weathers, lasted far better than the Raceface BB's they replaced (4 months and 6 months), this one is going on my wife's bike...."

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Review 18 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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tweek

Date:June 17, 2011

A beauty of a bracket

Pros: Durable, Great Value, Attractive, High Quality, Rugged, Adjustable

"Easy to fit with a Hollowtech II tool. One thing to note is that there is a bit of a copy-paste error in the instructions. It says to "fit spacers as needed (see below)" but there's no diagram "below" as there is on the mountain bike brackets. The solution is to fit all the spacers (one on each side)."

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Review 19 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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fury

Date:May 5, 2011

Hope Bottom Bracket

Pros: Great Value, High Quality, Lightweight, Good Fit

"Excellent item.
Easy to fit, very well finished and made."

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Review 20 for Hope Stainless Steel Bottom Bracket

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newmandiver

Date:May 3, 2011

Money Well Spent

Pros: Durable, Great Value, Attractive, High Quality, Good Fit

"Replacement for my short lived RaceFace BB. Couldn't have asked for better. Price was right and the quality worth every penny."

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