HOPE PRO 5 FRONT CENTERLOCK DISC HUB

Design and construction

The shell is machined from aluminum bar in Barnoldswick with J-bend flanges and anodized in Hope's colors: black, silver, red, blue, orange and purple among them.

This is the front hub, and a front hub has no freehub. What matters here is the part of the hub that carries the wheel: the bearings, the seals, the axle and the two flanges, and the front Pro 5 shares all of them with its rear partner. It is the simpler half of the pair and the one that runs longest between services. The driver and engagement story belongs on the rear hub's page; this page is about a front wheel that spins freely, stays sealed and builds stiff.

How it rides

The bearings roll for years, the seals keep British-grade mud out, and the hub takes trail, enduro, downhill and e-bike use; Hope rates the Pro 5 for e-MTBs.

For road and gravel Hope makes the RS4; for fat bikes the Fatsno.

On the road or the trail the front hub's job is to disappear: spin freely, keep water out, and hold the flanges still so the wheel tracks where you point it. The front Pro 5 does that with the same bearings and seals as the rear and none of the rear's complexity, and because a front wheel carries less load and no torque it stays true longer than the rear on the same rim. When the rear finally needs a look, the front usually does not.

Specifications

Which version this is

Version notes. Centerlock rotor mount, QR 5x100mm, Thru Axle 9x100mm, Thru Axle 12x100mm, Thru Axle 15x100mm and more, 24h, 28h, 32h, 36h, about 180g, in black, blue, orange, purple, red, silver, smoke. If your frame or fork uses a different standard, the other versions of the Pro 5 on this site cover it.

Centerlock is the lighter, quicker rotor mount: a splined rotor drops onto the hub and a single lockring holds it, so a rotor swap takes a minute with a lockring tool and there are no six small bolts to torque or lose. Shimano and most current road and gravel rotors are centerlock; 6-bolt rotors fit with an adapter.

Sizes, fit and compatibility

J-bend spokes in any gauge; we build most Pro 5 wheels with Sapim Race, D-Light or CX-Sprint spokes or DT Competition and brass nipples.

It pairs naturally with DT Swiss, Stan's, WTB, Race Face, Reserve, We Are One, Nox and ENVE rims that match its drilling. Tell the configurator your bike type and weight and it suggests a spoke count and lacing pattern to suit.

Put it in a custom wheel

Build a custom wheel around the Hope Pro 5 Front Centerlock Disc Hub — the link drops you into our Custom Wheel Program with this hub pinned, ready for you to choose the rest. It is set up for gravel and road disc, track and road single-speed, mountain bike, MTB single-speed and fat bike builds.

Building it at ProWheelBuilder

Hope makes the Pro 5 in Barnoldswick, England; ProWheelBuilder is an independent custom wheel builder in Georgia and not the manufacturer. The build is the same every time: measured ERD, spokes cut to the half millimeter, staged tensioning with a gauge, stress relief, a final true, and tubeless tape and a valve on request.

The configurator shows only rims and spokes that fit the Pro 5's drilling and color, strikes through combinations that are not made, and prices the wheel live.