I’m saying that while it might be the bike for some, it isnt up to the hype that surrounds it and it is certainly not worth £4400

The £4.4k doesn’t relate to Orange though does it (the frame price is fairly average), any xc/trail bike with XTR etc is surely going to be around that price? Just find it interesting why people are so against a home grown brand/bike that despite your claims of it being the MTB version of a European supermini, is consistently highly rated time and time again.

Orange have only just got the frame stiffness of the 5 sorted out though….according to MBR.

Furry muff… 😆 You have the right to your opinion same as me……This mountain bike lark is such a subjective thing

Orange have only just got the frame stiffness of the 5 sorted out though….according to MBR.

I have heard this as well from a mate who develops prototypes for orange and another mate came across it in a forum. They have had a problem with the rear maxle causing frame failures on their prototypes…

Rockhopper, did you read this online if so have you got the link?

I wouldnt know the difference between a £4400 bike and a £1000 quid bike if I rode it

There. I’ve said it

No link…it was in the MBR update on the long term test a few months ago. I started a thread on here about the update that stated the five had an achilles heel in frame stiffness yet had won bike if the year for a few years.

Probably easily led by the popular MTB press……followed the hype 2008,2009,2010… 😈

So we will see loads of MTBers trading their Fives in for trek ex’s in the next few months as its just won what mountain bikes trail bike of the year. 😆

I will keep my eye on ebay for some five bargains 😆

Jesus

I just bought, taxed, insured and remaped a 56 plate seat ibiza Sport for about the same amount as that. A few years ago I had a 224 and a meta 5.5 and combined they didn’t cost me £4400.

I love Orange but I have to say 4.4k does seem rather alot for a Five but for myself, XTR doesn’t seem that exciting.

My Alpine 160 with Talas fork, branded b/b, headset, stem, bars, seatpost, chain guide and CCDB has cost me less than 4k with careful after market purchases. I think I’d get a Five Pro and spec it up myself, lots more fun.

I think for £4400 they should have some blingy wheels and maxle rear at the least. I’d be a bit upset to fork out another £100 for maxle, then £100 for custom paint, and those hope race brakes aren’t really suited to a bike like this IMO. The pro and the AM look fair buys though.

FFS, here we go again. If youv’e got the dosh & you want as British a FS bike as you can get, get a 5. Mine was £3800.00 for parts only (list) but I paid £3300.00 for it built up, so it was more of a ‘customy’ type.
It suits me, I paid cash (robbed a bank) & after 21 years of riding all sorts…It’s fooking awesome. IN MY OPINION.
All this ‘it’s not suited for this, it’s not suited for that,’ bollox, is just that, IE, bollox. If it suits you (sir) it’s suits you.

Read the singletrack review (this months mag) of the hope race brakes mate. And calm down FFS.

Trek Remedy 9.8 = 5k
Trek Remedy 9.9 = 6.5k

I’m sure lots of other manufacturers are the same. Giant Trance is close to 7k for instance:
http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Giant-Trance-X-Advanced-SL-0-Mountain-Bike-2011-Full-Suspension-MTB_39475.htm

Orange offering the Five with XTR and top end kit makes sense to me.

That’s nothing – I managed to up-spec that five to £5178!

🙂

I haven’t really looked into it, but isn’t this epxensive 5, just like their ‘top of the range’ one?
It fills a need in that it competes with other manufacturer’s in the ‘blingy’ bike competition and enables them to say “our mega-trail bike weighs only 25lbs” – or whatever the expensive kit gets it down to, even though that weight only applies to the top model??

It’s also the bike for people with a load of cash to spank and have to buy the ‘best’ even if they won’t benefit from it.

All the other companies do it; not sure what the big deal is.

SLX would be better on that bike..

The £4,400 price tag is irrelevant to me as I’ll not be speccing a bike with XTR, etc in the forseeable future. £1,400 for the frame is of interest as I’ll likely be getting a new frame in the next couple of years. Seems a lot when, for example, a Heckler is £900 but horses for courses and it is UK built which is a definate bonus.

I’ve yet to destroy an 819, and I’m a heavy old sod who tends to plough through stuff and land drops with all the finesse of an arthritic hippo.

They’re fine for anything short of full DH, I’d say; if you’re regularly breaking them then your wheel build might be the issue rather than the rim.

£4400 is a lot of money, but there are plenty of options to get one cheaper.
I’ve got a 2010 five pro which I upgraded to the 819s, they died. One flattened rim and the other a pretty hefty wobble within one month of purchase. Currently run a pair of cheap as chips Superstar Evo wheels on their own brand DH rims and it’s great (although a little heavier!). I wouldn’t have said I was a bull-in-a-china-shop kind of rider but do take the five down things my old patriot used to revel in.

Neil