Fort William 2015: New Orange 324 Launched

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Orange has chosen the classic 2015 Fort William World Cup to launch its new downhill bike, the 324. Never one for model years as such, the company has used previous versions of the event to launch other bikes.

The bike uses an Orange Bikes’ trademark single pivot: the semi-pierced downtube shock-mount first seen on the 322 and a new, lighter, stiffer swingarm that apes that on the Alpine 160. Details are very vague at the moment, but we’re going to be seeing the bike in person tomorrow. In the mean time, we hope you’ll be OK with a studio shot of the new bike and a list of the spec.

324 RS

(shown in custom colour Atomic Orange)

RRP £4,200.00
Sizes M,L,XL
Standard Colour Jet Black
Tubeset 6061-T6 Monocoque/Reynolds Custom Butted Aluminium Tube
Rear Shock RochShox Vivid R2c
Swing Arm 150x12mm Bolt Thru
Forks RockShox Boxxer Team
Front Mech Gamut P30s Black
Rear Mech Shimano Zee Shadow +
Shifters Shimano SLX
Brakes SRAM Guide RS 200mm/180mm
Bottom Bracket GXP 83mm
Crankset Truvativ Descendant 165mm 36t
Cassette SRAM PG1070 11-26T 10spd
Wheelset Halo Chaos 27.5″
Tyres Schwalbe Magic Mary 27.5 x 2.35 Super Gravity Vert
Headset Cane Creek Headset
Stem Kore Direct Mount 50mm M35
Handlebars Kore OCD M35 800mm
Grips 2016 Strange Lock-On
Saddle Kore Fazer EX
Seat Post KORE Torsion
Seat Clamp Strange Bolted
Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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