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Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £84.99 on Hope Tapered Integral ZS44, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.7/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 159 products in the Headsets category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.4

Price

8.5

Reviews

9.3

Overall

8.7

 

Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 reviews

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Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 Specification

Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 specs

Hope Tapered Integral ZS44
Feature 1

Cups: Machined Aluminium

Other Headsets found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Steerer Size: 1 1/8″ – 1.5″ tapered

Other Headsets found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Headtube Type/Internal Size – Top: Integral (43.95mm)

Other Headsets found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

Headtube Type/Internal Size – Bottom: 1.5″ Integral (55.9mm)

Other Headsets found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

Bearings: Custom made Stainless Steel, sealed cartridge bearings

Other Headsets found with this feature: 1

Feature 6

Extra Features: Hed Doctor included

Other Headsets found with this feature: 1

Feature 7

Weight: 105g

Other Headsets found with this feature: 2

Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Headsets found with this spec: 1

Spec 2

Steerer Diameter: 1.1/8″ – 1.5″ Tapered

Other Headsets found with this spec: 1

Spec 3

Headset Type: Semi-Integrated Tapered

Other Headsets found with this spec: 1

Price

£84.99

Number of Reviews

20

Review Score

4.4 / 5

Average score in category: 4.3

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  • . The Hope Tapered Headset is designed to fit frames which are sized to accept integral 1 1/8″ top cup and 1. They include replaceable custom made stainless steel bearings The cups, taper ring and crown race, which is split for east installation and removal, are all machined from 2014 T6 Aluminium. As you might have worked out by now, headsets are a bit of a minefield! Integrated, integral, reducers, dimensions and types all contribute to confusing the situation. Don‚Äôt panic! We now have top and bottom cups available separately allowing Hope headsets to fit almost any frame and fork combination. Features: Cups: Machined AluminiumSteerer Size: 1 1/8″ ‚Äì 1.5″ taperedHeadtube Type/Internal Size – Top: Integral (43 95mm)Headtube Type/Internal Size – Bottom: 1.5″ Integral (55 9mm)Bearings: Custom made Stainless Steel, sealed cartridge bearingsExtra Features: Hed Doctor includedWeight: 105gBuy Hope Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 5055168027906
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No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Headsets.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 159 different products in the Headsets category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 242 products from Hope (although only 12 of the 242 are in the Headsets category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Headsets. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Hope. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Headsets. There are 159 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 159, the average price is £29.40. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £0.99 and most expensive was £160.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Hope. The average price was £70.75 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £0.01 up to £999.99 with Hope products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Hope products that appear specifically in the Headsets category. So you can see that the price of Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 at £84.99 is great value considering the average price of Hope Headsets is £36.70 and the price varies from £2.49.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £84.99 which represents a £5.00 or 6% saving against RRP. If you think Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Headsets too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 20 reviews scoring it 4.4 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Hope. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Headsets category is 4.3 and the average score of products from Hope is 4.6 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Hope in the Headsets category the average review score is 4.6.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 such a high overall score of 8.7 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 20 reviews for Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 which score it 4.4, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Hope Tapered Integral ZS44 or in fact any of the other Headsets, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.