This is a Hope Pro4 on my favorite bicycle. Was I climbing a huge hill? Landing from a huge drop? None of that.
I was exercising my dog. We stopped for him to pee. While stopped, my bars turned hard right. I started to pedal and only had one hand on the bars. The other had the leash. I was turning right to start leading him back home. There was a lot of resistance pushing the pedal into the hard turn. Suddenly I hear a bad sound and the cranks were moving without the bike moving forward.
I’m told this happens to Hopes. This hub was about five years old. I’m glad it didn’t happen this past Sunday. I did a ride with lots of technical climbing. That would have been bad if it failed then.