Nina seems to have fitted them in OK, which is good news 
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Orange St4 Opinions?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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2.25 Advantages on the one i looked at before ordering had
decent clearance.Should get mine in a week and starting to
get rather impatient!Posted 2 years ago # -
I'll find out Sunday week (28th March), as my LBS (Buck Bikes) has an Orange demo day organised in Wendover Woods.
20" booked out already for the first session
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Had a test ride on an 18" ST4-S last sunday. Great suspension feeling, good position. Lots of trail feedback so you know whats going on. Good climber, decent downhill too. The Rockshox fork felt a bit overwhelmed by the rest of the bike, probably worth an upgrade. 4 or 5 pedal strikes in a short ride though (rooty woodland mostly), not sure if I could teach myself to keep the pedals level! The Five I rode afterwards seemed more capable, a bit slower, but did have massive tyres fitted!
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You know that the Fox RL 15's make sense...
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Not ridden an ST4, but to get back to trances, I do like mine. And in contrast to the above I feel I can properly cane it, even on DH courses. Took it on an uplift day at inners as it was paid for already but my socom was waiting on a new front end, kept up with everyone fine*. Only issues were occasionally getting a bit out of depth on big holes out of steep corners where more than 100mm up front would've helped.
*however it's fair to say you get a high "mince quotient" on the average inners uplift, and I do know the trails well, plus it's not that rough there, but still. It's a bike you can rag.
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