Orange have some shocking news this spring*
The Cane Creek Double Barrel supershock is available now on all 224-Evolution, Alpine 160 and Blood models.
The Cane Creek Double Barrel is one of those few components that causes a genuine stir in the mountain bike world. It hasn’t been hit hard with marketing or hype, it’s quietly come onto the scene and blown everything else out of the water. That’s how it works on the bike too, no crazy graphics or showy dials, it quietly gets on with annihilating the trail and every other shock you’ve ever ridden.
The key to the success of the Double Barrel shock is Öhlins’ Twin Tube technology. This system pumps oil through a continuous circuit allowing full control of both rebound and compression movements. Circulating the oil through the valving instead of the main piston allows independent remote adjustment not possible on other shocks. External adjustment eradicates the need for expensive custom tunes and allows easy setup according to track or weather conditions. You no longer need a factory race truck to revalve your shock, you can do it yourself. Öhlins might have made a name for themselves in motorsport, but along with Cane Creek their technology has revolutionised mountain bike suspension setup.
So why upgrade your Orange to the Cane Creek Double Barrel? True versatility. It “seemingly knows what terrain you are riding over and deals with it in stealth mode” (2010 Dirt 100). The movement is stiction free creating a limitless feel to the travel allowing the damping complete control of the shock and creating unbreakable traction on the trail. If you ride flats and continually bounce off the pedals, the Double Barrel will give you more control and let you hit stutter bumps without the fear. “This is one of, if not THE best piece of mountain bike equipment you can buy. It’s impossible to put into words how good this shock is” (Dirt #87).
The Double Barrel is the only upgrade you can buy to push even more out of your Orange frame, only you know if you need that sort of performance…
Spring rates:
We offer three options per model. These have taken into consideration rider weight distribution and preload based on approximately 30% sag at two collar turns.
Availability and pricing:
The Cane Creek Double Barrel is available as an upgrade on all 224-Evolution, Alpine 160 and Blood models.
Upgrade prices:
224-Evolution (to replace Fox DHX RC4) – £250
Alpine 160 (to replace Fox RP23) – £400
Blood (to replace Fox RP23) – £400
Steel spring only.
*Punnage due to excessive amounts of caffeine, sorry.
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Lovely, but jesus on a stick its expensive.
I have one on my trail bike and would have no qualms about saying it represents value for money.
It’s no more expensive than say a factory tuned DHX 5 and it still blows that out of the water. The new Fox RC4 is not far off in terms of price either.
I’ve got one on my5 spot and it’s macca, proper swear down an everyfin.
IMO when you are spending good money on a an expensive full suss you owe it to yourself to have the best shock available and the CCDB is one of the best.
picking my 160 frame up on Sat with one fitted…can’t wait to get it built up!
i have one on my Helius AM.
For sale if anyone’s interested – 200mm x 57mm stroke.
i now need a CCDB with 216mm x 63mm………
Its so good it even works on a hardtail!
the_lecht_rocks – yes I am. How does one get i touch with you?
(sorry for the hijack!)
2010 Fox RP23 – £299 RRP
2010 Cane Creek Double Barrel – £600 RRP
Me thinks Orange are taking the mick with a £400 upgrade charge.
not taking the mick…OEM price of a mass produced shock by fox against a hand built in very small numbers shock.
i know for a fact that bike shops, cane creek, orange, and extra (the cane creek importer) are not really making much money out of the double barrel.
Orange are doing a very good thing, offering you the option to get your frame/bike with the best performing damper on the market. Expensive though
“it’s macca, proper swear down an everyfin.” is there a Google translate for this?
‘i know for a fact that bike shops, cane creek, orange, and extra (the cane creek importer) are not really making much money out of the double barrel.’
If that’s the case how come everybody who sells Double Barrels online sells them for 10% less than RRP, where as most online retailers sell RP23’s for the RRP.
If all shops are willing to knock 10% the RRP of a CCDB then they must buy them for at least 20% less than RRP. Therefore Orange will be buying CCDB for £480 (I’d hazard a guess they pay less than that). So that means that if Orange are charging £400 extra for a CCDB over a RP23 then they must get RP23’s for £80 or less.
So either Orange are ripping people off or Fox are.
I don’t think it’s fair that Orange should make any money, they should sell everything at a loss and run the company into the ground, making all the staff redundant, like most other British manufacturing companies have done.
Phil
Looking forward to seeing how they perform on the Alpine 160 as i have been thinking about upgrading my dhx 5 coil to one.I would think it will turn a truly great bike into an amazing one.
cupid stunt/Phil – Don’t be a muppet, do a bit of maths and you’ll see Orange are ripping people off.
If you bought a ‘non-upgraded’ Orange Blood you could easily sell on a brand new 2010 RP23 for £200, then buy yourself a Double Barrel for £540. Oh look at that you’ve just saved yourself £60.
I would rather just get the one i wanted and not have the hassle of trying to get rid of the Rp23
We can’t really say Orange are ripping us off if we don’t know how much they pay for either shocks.
Cant they actually design something different to single-pivot? After all their frames arent cheap anyway are they?
i am sure one would be great on an Alpine 160 or Blood, but on deciding to go a cheaper route i swopped an air can off my Patriot for a cheapo RS Vivid 5.1 coil from CRC at a fraction of the cost of the CCDB, and the change was still fantastic
RRP on a Fox RC4 = £519.
RRP on a CCDB = £535.
Trade on the RC4 is £4 less than the CCDB.
£250 on the 224 upgrade must be other reasons, eg quantity breaks, maintaining stock levels, spring options, set-up/build times etc etc etc
The frames are not cheap since every-one in the UK wants to get paid a lot. Source the same from far east and it would cost x% less due to labour….it’s not rocket science. I am happy to pay a bit more for a UK designed, and built product. Also if those CC are made by Ohlins in Sweden again expensive labour.
Hora, why do they need to change from single pivot when it works so well?
Orange don’t need to change from single pivot. Some poeple like it some don’t.
Single pivot has the massive advantage of having less bearing to pear shaped.
First proper ride on my CCDB’d Five in Wales last w/e.
The weather meant I couldn’t really put the hammer down but below are my first impressions:
– low speed damping meant almost no bobbing on the climbs whilst staying sensitive for the same bumps (plus you don’t have to remember to flick a Pro-pedal lever when you come to the downs.)
– super controlled in and out of compressions, my RP23 Boost valve used to blow through the travel on the way in (forever catching a pedal) then buckaroo me off the saddle on the way out.
– braking traction was superb, on the rough rocky chutes it never let go on the back, despite the snow
– landing drops felt really smooth which does wonders for the confidence
– I hardly lost the chain at all, which was a real bug bear when the Fox was fitted. It seemed to bounce off at the slightest provocation, but it would seem the suspension is that controlled it’s not a problem anymore.
Lastly, and this is a negative, it showed up the limitations of the fork (a Fox 32 Vanailla QR15), what the CCDB cruised through the fork took a bit of a battering.
Need to do more tweaking to see if it can be improved but first impressions are fantastic.
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