[Closed] its not new but it kinda looks it... (ton look away now)

I'm such a sucker for polished bikes.

Ace lookin bike

Those bars are so wide your left hand must be in a different time zone to your right! Have you got the world's widest shoulders? 😕

Very nice though all the same...

Realy nice but the car style orange badge is chavtastic!

i've never seen brakes so far from the grips before 😯 needs chrome bars.

Not really into it - especially the lettering - sorry!

How wide are those bars btw?

thanks for the usual stw comments, guess id better mtfu and take them on the chin cos ive dished out my own fair share.

mboy, they are quite wide i guess, they are the first bars ive had that i dont have my little finger hanging off the end though so im happy.

duggie, its uberchav aint it? individual letters from halfrauds, i was going to get a slikgraphics made up but they never got back to me so when i was buyingsome copper grease i spotted them and acted on impulse. you dont really see them cos they match the frame pretty well. they may come off though!

rs, one finger braking all the way! think a chrome bar might be a bit much, white lg1 would look nice though...

grumm, no need to apologise! it was white before so IMHO its an improvement (and saved a quarter of a pound, woop!). the bars are 750mm.

Sort of defines "gopping"

That's the only 5 I've ever gone "WOW!" over

Chrome bars

Silver spokes

I like it - the raised lettering compliments the headbadge 8)

sob

I like that (apart from the lettering). Who did the polishing for you?

I wouldn't normally comment on bike photos but I think that looks awesome! Did you polish it yourself? I actually quite like the logo. Almost looks like its stamped into the frame. Does that make me a chav?

a place called blumax in nottingham. i wouldnt say i wholeheartedly recommend them but you could do a lot worse. apparently it was hard to polish cos of the other metals in the alloy but theres some less than pretty patches here and there (or all over, depending on your taste!). you only see them close up and it will look scuffed and tatty soon anyway so im not fussed.

it would appear i own a marmite bike. oooh, i feel so niche right now... 8)

I think that's about the best 5 I've seen. Are those 2010 150mm travel Revs? A really nice, well thought about, spec. Everything fit for purpose. Bars are a bit wide for my taste (skinny git, so 715s do me), but other than that really neat, really clean.

Must be truly, truly, caneable DH for such a light bike- perfect Mega ride in fact. Question is can you climb on it as well as it descends?

Just out of interest - how much weight did you save by ditching the paint?

its.. its beautiful... 😯

Just watch those letters don't fall off..

cheers jon, yep 2010 150mm revs.
it climbs better now than it did with my 36's on! first ride out last week with the single ring and revs i went lookng for nasty sharp inclines to see if it was too slack and its all good so far. still descends well but does up and along with less protest.

i saved a quarter of a pound with the polishing. not much when you think i saved over a pound off forks, a pound off seatpost and seat, a pound off the rear tyre and a pound off the drivetrain.

very nice. love the lettering!

Has it been lacquered? - if not how much time do you think it'll take to keep it from visibly oxidising?

I wouldn't fancy trying to keep on top of it

Bling! but how the hell did you shave 4.25lbs off the weight?

uplink, yep lacquered, same day it was polished to avoid any oxidising.

orang, it was a bit porky before, had talas 36's, dual ply rear tyre, gravity dropper seatpost and twice as many gears.

and some paint.

Very nice, apart from the lettering I'm afraid.

Would look much better with nothing or normal decals imo.

Good to see a bike mod that isn't simply bolting shiny bits on 🙂

Nice bike (and I like the lettering)

Found you some body armour to go with it..

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lmao chunky, you are too kind!

ChunkyMTB 😆

slowrider -Nice bike!

Nothing wrong with a bit of chavness, fit some green neons on the downtube, it would look hilarious on night rides.

i could try and find a burberry saddle too, i bet sdg do one!

Not keen on the lettering. But I think it looks pretty cool. Some dark grey stickers would look good.

I'm liking your super wide bars - for those of us with big chests and shoulders 8)

you should draw a kind of distorted window on it somewhere.

thanks for the usual stw comments, guess id better mtfu and take them on the chin cos ive dished out my own fair share.

mboy, they are quite wide i guess, they are the first bars ive had that i dont have my little finger hanging off the end though so im happy.

I was just jesting anyway mate... I'm not that big a guy myself, so I get away fine with my 685mm bars, but can defo see the benefit of wide bars. Those are HUGE though to be fair!

You've definitely paid a fair amount of attention to detail to it, I'm assuming its intended purpose is riding events like the Megavalanche? IMO, the only other thing you need to do (aside from ditch the raised downtube lettering, not my cup of tea to be fair) is put a short cage mech on it now its got a single ring and chain device... It's not just an aesthetics thing, they do make a difference if you're running less than 3 chainrings to be fair.

the swingarm needs some stickers (go-faster stripes) to break it up a bit - looks a bit too filing cabinet at the moment

SICK!
(in a good way, not I have been sick cos it's so bad)

nonk, i dont know what that means...

mboy, no megas for me. i need this much skill compensation for the peak! ill probably pick up a short cage mech if i decide to stick with the single ring, just testing for now really.

brakes, i know what you mean.

think you should of painted the 'O' on the main frame Orange to make it stand out a bit and not look to 'halfords'

s'alright s'uppose....................for a sheep bike........... 😉

sorry. yknow in cartoons they do it to show comedy reflection.

thats right ton, bought it cos mbr and dirt told me to, polished it cos steve jones did then fitted silly wide bars cos doody told me they were cool.

baa!

nonk, aha!

slowrider, i was not taing the pis5, i posted one of these....... 😉
i ride with a group of 20 or so lads, 15 or 16 of them ride fives...........................i wonder why.............

cos they a ****ing good.

How the hell did it weigh 33 lbs ?
Nice finished, weight added by the letters.
You have had the frame clear lacquered or sealed?

mboy, no megas for me. i need this much skill compensation for the peak! ill probably pick up a short cage mech if i decide to stick with the single ring, just testing for now really.

A single ring for XC riding in the Peaks! Respect to you mate... I wouldn't manage it for sure...

i know ton, i wasnt taking offence, just taking the p1ss out of myself.

clear powder coated grantway

What bars and stem are they? They look bloody good.

You've done well there lad. Nice one :O)

Awesome! Apart from those car letters - they're the single most stupid/chavvy/awful/cheap/disgusting thing I've ever seen on this forum (and this forum contains images and discussions about CX and road bikes sometimes!).

Other than that though, its beautiful. My other slight bug bear is the dropping of the front rings... not my thing (I'd rather run double/bash) and there doesn't seem to be that much point other than a slight weight saving (which you then put back on due to the need for a chain device) and a myth that its less maintenance which I don't believe. On a SS, yes. On a 1x9, really?

But it looks more gnar!

andy m, straitline stem, burgtec bar.

dbw, i feel like my lettering deserves an award for provoking such a reaction!
the front ring thing wasnt really a weight saving thing to begin with, i never use my granny ring after riding a blur 4x for so long which pedalled so bad in granny i just got out the habit. now when i use it i kind of mentally psyche myself out by doing so. i also drop my chain with annoying frequency on anything rocky despite running it as short as poss, i tried using a blackspire stinger plus a few failed bodge attempts but nothing really worked. once i had decided to go single ring i thought i may as well get a decent lightweight one. i didnt even know about the maintenance myth.

andy m, that too. rad to the power of sick!

Tom, your a mentalist
I need to see it in the flesh before I comment. Agree with the nasty letters though...get em off.

What about polished fork lowers? mmmm

if you dont like em then they stay! whether i like them or not theres no way im caving to peer pressure now. seeing it in the flesh might mean you have to ride in the mud though fella!

Wow!
Have to ask - was the paint just polished off or is some sort of chemical stripping involved?
And, just to be vulgar, what was the cost?

the paint was removed by a company called prostrip in notts. they used a caustic somethingorother specifically for aluminium alloys, cost £40, it was then polished by blumax in notts for £60 and then lacquered by thornix for a further £60. it was a bit more than i had expected but im happy with it.

Great looking bike, any possibilty of putting a line of moving LEDs on the front and getting the bike to make Cylon noises, would be a laugh for night rides! 😀

IMHO that's a horrible looking bike, but then that's pretty much true of all Orange full-sussers (although not usually try of their hardtails). Not that it'd stop me buying one though, as I know they're great bikes.

i have to admit epicsteve, that, like yourself, i would never choose a five as contender for best looking bike. i test rode half a dozen that fitted what i wanted and looks wise i was torn between a roscoe and a lapierre but just had so much fun on the 5 so went for that instead. never liked the colour but i was off ot the alps 2 weeks after i bought it and it was the only colour they had in stock, i could have waited less than a week for a red one but wanted to get some miles in on it before my hols and TBH wasnt that fussed on the red either.

it really does ride nice though.