The impressive Hope debuts double 3D seatpost

The most spectacular bike among those rolling in track tests, the Hope used by British Cycling cyclists is updated for the 2023 Cycling World Championships in Glasgow with an impressive 3D printed seatpost that promises to further improve its already outstanding aerodynamic performance.

British Cycling's Hope HB.T evolves with an eye on Paris 2024

With this short Olympic cycle coming to an end, the Track Cycling World Championships, which will be part of the Glasgow superworlds starting in just a few days, is shaping up as a kind of rehearsal for the Olympic event, which is undoubtedly the most important event in this discipline.

That is why in Glasgow we will see the latest evolution of the Hope HB.T, the bike that broke all known conventions to date with its incredible design of a double-plated fork with widely spaced legs to avoid airflow interaction with the front wheel, a design that is repeated in the rear end with very vertical and distant seat stays from the rear wheel.

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Now the engineers at Hope are taking it a step further and have repeated this same design in a seatpost, manufactured through 3D printing, and divided into two leaving a gap in the center for air flow in a concept that has reminded us of the one used by Trek in its Madone, the aerodynamic road model of the American brand.

The idea behind this seatpost design is to leave the circulation of air through the cyclist's legs as free as possible, so that they do not encounter the seatpost in their way, thus avoiding another point of turbulence generation so that now the seatpost integrates into the airflow coming out of the legs.

These Glasgow World Championships are the last opportunity for the different teams to present new equipment to be approved by the UCI so what we see on the Scottish track will be the same as what cyclists will use in Paris 2023.

In any case, this split seatpost is only the most visible of the multiple modifications that the Hope HB.T has received, which has received tweaks in practically all frame profiles, from the narrower steering tube, to the fork legs whose exit edge has a curious sawtooth profile.

British Cycling has presented two versions of this bike, one used for timed tests with handlebar extensions and one for endurance tests, equipped with a curved handlebar and without the innovative seatpost.