HOPE UNION CLIP PEDAL TC £150

Pretty much everything your bike wants, Hope can supply. From the headset to the bottom bracket, via lights and even the frame itself, the Barnoldswick brand has you covered.

Now it’s added something else to the line up, clipless pedals to run alongside its trusty F20 flats – machined in house from aluminium and with Hope’s in-house mechanism, there are three models to choose from, six colours, and a titanium spindle upgrade too. It’s the new clip-in technology where things get really interesting, Hope calls it Dual Mechanism and it means both the front and back sections move to make way for the cleat.

Hope says this requires less effort, lets you clip in from a wider angle than the competition and it seats your cleat and shoe closer to the pedal body for better stability. You also get two cleat options – 4° of free float with a

12° release angle, or 5° and 13° and a tighter spring for the racers out there. Either way there’s 2mm of lateral float across all the models or cleats.

If you’re an XC rider you’ll want the lightest Race Clip, it’s cageless and weighs a claimed 324g. If you’re after more platform support then the Trail Clip uses a cage and gets four pins each side for grip, totalling 437g. Then for downhill you can opt for the Gravity Clip, you get the option to run seven pins a side and it uses a bigger platform, taking the weight to

Gravity Clip employs a large platform and copious pins Race Clip has been optimised for stiff-soled shoes