I’m on the precipice of putting an order in for one…..push me!! 😀

Here you go, Neon Orange.

GRAEMEJONES – did you buy that from Lucy and Phil?

Plasma Blue:

Hi Edd, yes thats the one, thanks for the Guiding last year :-).I’ve had the Floats converted to Vanilla’s,and changed the bars and stem to Renthal ones, and thats it, but not going to be out there this year. 🙁

plasma blue too 🙂
but with quite warn tyres now.

IMG_2534 by Mike Clark, on Flickr

edd, (if I am right in thinking, it looks like the right bike!) are you guiding for Lucy and Phil again this summer??

Ed Chumly Bingly!

Why did they change it from the Patriot? Going by the if it aint broke don’t fix it theory.

So the suckers who get absorbed by the marketing BS spend more money! Simple!

Having actually ridden both in the Alps, I can say that the 160 is a far more accomplished bike for that terrain/riding, so all the R&D that Steve Wade does certainly is worth my money. 🙂

There’s mine.

anto, looks similar to the Orange 5’s I posted here

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/orange-5-owners-help-me-choose-show-me-your-green-and-orange-frames/page/2

😀

Liking the blue frames, was thinking maybe powder blue for mine. Opinions?

Nope, sadly I’m not guiding this summer. I’ve had to rejoin the real world. 🙁

Tomorrow I’m off to Canada for two weeks riding though, so it’s not all bad, and I’ll be back out in Switzerland for 8 days riding at the start of September. 🙂

GRAEMEJONES – Member
Having actually ridden both in the Alps, I can say that the 160 is a far more accomplished bike for that terrain/riding, so all the R&D that Steve Wade does certainly is worth my money.

Maybe so (Ive only ridden the Patriot), but the name doesn’t do it for me. I always wanted a Patriot 🙁 .

Well I ordered the frame & finally built it up today.
Built with a fair bit of stuff from STW classifieds. Currently got 185mm front & rear discs, just waiting for a 203 rotor to swap on the front. 1st ride tomorrow night, can’t wait.

What’s the verdict?

Cheers,
Sean

the brown saddle mings

+1 for minging brown saddle, handlebars are bit early 90’s too .. should get some black ones, silver all wrong! Loving the powder blue, pimpy white cables and blue gear thingy.