Orange Four

Bike Place 2016 – NEW Orange Four and revamped Segment

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News aplenty on the Orange stand at the 2016 Bike Place – let’s look at the newness first – meet the Orange Four:

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It’s a 120mm travel bike (with a 130mm fork) designed as a shorter travel hoon machine rather than anything*shudder* XC. There’s been a lot of thought put into the design, and there are more than a few very nice touches.

DSC_0650The swingarm is composed of a ridiculous number of carefully bent aluminium sheets (there is’n’t a tube on the whole bike apart from the seat tube) all layered to generate maximum strength and stiffness. The frame is 1lb lighter than the Orange Five, with a substantial saving on the swingarm, which resembles (in looks at least) the one on the Orange Alpine.

DSC_0651Tidy dropouts resemble the ones on the Segment, and the whole thing is boosted for stiffness, which is comparable to the stiffness of the Five.

You want numbers? Okay, here are numbers. 67 degree head angle, 74 degree effective seat angle, 424mm chainstays, and the large has a 458mm reach. Not bad.

DSC_0652Orange are looking to get bikes out of the door at the end of Feb, and here’s a snazzy video:

 

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Orange have also revamped their much admired Segment short-travel 29er frame:

DSC_0656Which is now boost for stiffness, the pivot is 6mm wider for yet more stiffness and the frame now 1x specific and 400g lighter than before. Nice.

DSC_0657There’s lots of clearance too – I reckon you could get a chubby 2.8 27.5+ wheel in there if you fancied…

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Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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