Re: Hope cranks
I switched over from a RF Turbine crank to Hope over a year ago.
I like direct mount chain rings and I found the RF system to be a bit fiddly and tended to creak on the NDS (might have been the RF BB).
The Hope cranks are bomber and I'm about to purchase a second set for a frame I'm building up.
One thing to note with the Hope cranks is that they come with the tools to install/remove them and that you can go a bit under the recommended torque values when installing (70+ Nm) as they can be a bear to remove if you go up that high on the torque.