[Closed] OK You Hate The Orange 5 But What Do You Actually Ride

ljs1977 - Member
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GEOFF1 - Member
Rew thats Black Mountains, far to much grass for my liking but stunning views

Cheers chaps

I used to dislike the 5, I'm actually warming to it. I really enjoyed the Orange article in Privateer, maybe that influenced me. I really like the Orange Rowan Sorrell rides in Find, is it an alpine? It as a metallic finish.

The Five looks much better in the flesh than it usually does in photos IMO.

five .. if its that bad why can people not stop buying them. for me it was an emotional pull had a clockwork in 89/90 p7 in 91 so when i came home from exile it had to be.. and Halifax is only 5 minutes away and its in YARKSHIRE!

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I love all bikes, aren't they just great?

I ride one of these in the winter. (Orange P7)

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I ride a newer version of this (my old Five snapped, so I got the new style frame with swoopy toptube), in the summer.

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Once I get a fork sorted out, I'll get this back on the trail, even though she has pretty much the same amount of travel as my other full susser, there's just a bit more 'fun' involved! (2002 Patriot)

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They are, respectively, Victoria, Josephine and Ermintrude, and I love em' all.

Beagy xx

A sub5...

Beagleboy - it looks like you are going to fall!

So the 5 is overpriced and ugly, eh?
A mere pretender to the crown, I reckon. Ladles and gentlespoons, I give you my "big" bike:
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Ah

The Jewish bris ceremony 'on the fly' 😆

OK You Hate The Orange 5 But What Do You Actually Ride

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Giant Trance X. I've done the niche British manufacturer thing. Loving being on mainstream stuff (which actually works!)

Used to have a sub 5 and I thought it was the dogs do da's. However when the bike was in getting some warranty work done on the rear shock the lbs lent me a intense tracer. I was blown away on how well it tracked the ground, I didn't want to give it back. Always hankered after a multi pivot since but captain cash always said no. Saved up enough cash two years ago to get this:
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I had a Nomad (Mk1 in white) having been blown away by the look and it being my dream bike. Climbed like a total sack of ---- in the granny ring (compressed the lower link every pedal stroke effectively shortening the chain stay by nearly an inch). Biggest disappointment in my MTBing life (I understand the link position and geom was tweaked for later models which eliminated the interaction).

Now have an overweight, overblown version of the ugly, overpriced 5, the Alpine 160 (which Rowan Sorrel rides as asked earlier), and it climbs far better than the Nomad I had, and descends as well .

My current "dream" bike is the Mojo HD in white, having seen Vinneyh's bikes on here before I hate him with a passion 😀

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Pics when ive washed them...but i ride a Cube Fritzz and a Trek Fuel Ex 9. In the middle of building on Orange Crush as well. As for the 5, very expensive for what you get, but i do like them in real life..and the low maintenance single pivot must be handy in the winter.

Heckler here and a Giant Anthem 29er for going a long way. Had Oranges and they all broke, 2 * Sub 5s, 1* Patriot rear, 1* Patriot front. But it was a long time ago.

Please! No more Mavericks! They look like they belong in the era of Proflex's and Girvin flex stem!

Best looking bike above? Prob the Giant, transition of lapierre - but wouldn't buy any of them!

IMO of course!

Ride this but actually looking to get an orange 5 😯

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I know I posted earlier but I ride a (seemingly common as muck) Nicolai Helius CC, it's 140mm up front and 129mm out back, so it's even got funky new style different travel at both ends 😆

I don't dislike the Five as a bike, my mate loves his, I just wouldn't buy one as I don't like the way it looks or sounds when being ridden 😯

Here's a photo of it up a mountain some where in Wales.
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And here it is again, somewhere in the Dark Peak
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My Bitch!

Foes FXR with curnutt XTD 🙂

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Actually would cheerfully, ride an Orange too...defo not hate anyway!

i'd like to add that i don't hate any bike 😉 sorry to repeat what others have said,but it is the price of the orange 5 that puts me off.if i had the money though,i would definitely consider one 🙂

Do you know perversely now that everyone officially hates them 🙂

I want one!

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Here She is! My Lovely. BTW dont hate 5's.

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Went to a demo day at Laggan to specifically test the 5, ended up falling for a tracer and love it

Please! No more Mavericks! They look like they belong in the era of Proflex's and Girvin flex stem!

Hahaha, nothing like a bit of prejudice based entirely on how something looks is there! 😉

For the record, I don't hate the 5 either. I think it's a well refined version of a proven design, it's just bloody expensive for what it is, it's not particularly light, and it has a very poor warranty. All of which could probably be forgiven if it looked the mutts nuts, but it doesn't, it's "functional" at best.

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ellsworth epiphany, out of the many fs bikes I've owned or ridden it's the best by miles. The only thing I've ridden that climbs technical stuff as well as it is a Maverick, but elli is more fun (for me) in the mental bits on the downs.

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EDIT and yes I know it's a bit marmite on the looks department but it's still the best

everyone seems to be riding flats..........

i don't hate the 5, i just think it's too expensive for a bike which boasts about it's simplicity and minimal RnD.

the orange RnD office must be an exciting place:

(... years roll by, dust gathers on dust, the air is still - having been undisturbed in centuries...)

someone coughs.

"er, bigger headtube?"

"ok"

(...and once again, stillness returns...)

i've got a blue pig, i'd like a bouncy 29er, but gosh they're expensive.

I quite like the look of the Five.
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As a first foray into riding a full sus it's taken me all over the place.

As with the five it is a functional machine with little attempt to disguise the simplicity of the suspension.
Apart from the fannying around with drivetrain arrangements i've not had bother with the frame, only the stuff bolted to it.

Aestetics? Questionable. I like the it from certain directions. Side on it looks slightly short and awkward.

My big bike

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And my everything else bike. Only difference is that it now has a reverb fitted

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Ventana!!

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🙂

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