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Been offered a Orange st4 pro for £1400 its in immaculate condition seems a very good price but cant find any reviews for the 2010 model. Anybody ridden or have one what do you think
Fair review. I wouldn't say its a great climber. Its a good technical climber (with pedaling finesse), but it needs a bit of shock tweaking and saddle (fore -aft ) adjustment to make it 1/2 decent at long fireroad type climbs. It pretty much demands that you maintain a fairly attacking position and riding style to get the most out of it + that seems to be the point of the bike. Its definitely not a skill compensator. Its good fun + great if you like long low bikes that corner well. feels really balanced in the air + over smaller jumps (I wouldn't know about big jumps...) somewhere like Brechfa + Afan its a blast + on the descents on the Dyfi properly flew. With tyres that are sticky enough, wide bars + short stem, Reba maxles on, you can corner at stupid angles + push it hard. This seems to bring the best out in the bike. I'm sure it could be set up for grinding out fireroad miles, but there are other bikes that do that better + you'd be missing the point IMHO.
It prob'ly took me 3-4 rides to totally get it set up right + recently moving the saddle forward 10mm made a big difference to its sitting climbing ability. The trick seems to be to encourage it to be the bike its designed to be: an ace singletrack carving funmonkey.
Lots of threads on here if you do a search over the last couple of years.
The original Raceface cranks on mine chainsucked like a biyatch. Swapped for XT and not had an issue since, but not before I ragged a fair chunk of paint and metal off the chainstay. Check this bit of the bike for damage if it's already been ridden.
Apart from that, it seems to work for me. I wouldn't buy one if you're a racer wanting Anthem levels of efficiency, but it is lots of fun.
The thinking singletrack-riders bike IMO. If you're all about just hammering little twisty ribbons of dirt as fast as possible, great bike!
It should have the square section chain stays if it's a 2010. Interesting that the Shimano crankset solved the chainsuck!
The thinking singletrack-riders bike IMO.
Eh?
It was a joke, obviously lost...
Clearly.