[Closed] orange 5

Oh go on then.....
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heres mine, just after a wash. yes it does get very dirty!

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Rickit yours is lovely and I considered the Crome finish as well, very smart.

Cheers for that, yeah it does look nice when clean!!

Some further great photos above too - thanks - keep them coming.

Couple more photos here:-

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Also, how are people finding the Fox rear CTD shock ? (i have a ongoing thread about mine)

Cheers

Bought this frame from the classifieds and used everything from my HT after wanting a Five for years. 1 ride in and i love it! (also shortened the cables since taking this pic :-))

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@rickt--The guard on the forks is a Muckynutz best £5 I've invested in bike bits..

Is that the most excellent Ullswater singletrack @clareymorris? Certainly looks like it.

Note to self: Clean bike and take photos. 2008 Five over here in proper Mandarin Orange, love it.

Not been riding much lately though and nothing too massive so do feel a little over biked sometimes. Been daydreaming a bit lately about chopping it in and get an ASR5c to run at 120mm. Daydreaming is all it'll be mind, no funds!

@cardo - thanks for that - going to get one ordered today i think... not that its currently needed !!

i don't get why people hate on the poor five so much

Two reasons - firstly, because they can't get their heads round the fact that something so simple and functional can possibly be any good; secondly, plain old green-eyed jealousy.

Yes, Oranges are overpriced for what they are, they always have been - but there's a good reason for this - they're well engineered and they aren't produced in their thousands in a factory in Taiwan (well, the tubular frames are but that's a different story).

I own four Oranges (an Alpine 160, a Sub Zero, a G4 and a Carb-O road bike) and I can't fault any of them.

Two reasons - firstly, because they can't get their heads round the fact that something so simple and functional can possibly be any good; secondly, plain old green-eyed jealousy.

I own four Oranges

Not biased at all then 🙂

Does anyone want to buy a battered but sound 2007 Orange 5, 18"?

I'm mulling over whether or not it's worth selling to build up my TDR bike.

i don't get why people hate on the poor five so much

johnellison - Member

Two reasons - firstly, because they can't get their heads round the fact that something so simple and functional can possibly be any good; secondly, plain old green-eyed jealousy.

Just for the record- it's comments like this that make people rag on Orange- It's not the bike, it's the owners 😉

A couple from me ....

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