Bike Check: Guy Martin’s Custom Orange Five Evo

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Bike Check: Guy Martin’s Custom Orange Five Evo

He could do with a good scrub 😉

Team Green cranks! Oh my…I’m all of a fluster!

Lovely brushed finish, good luck keeping it looking like that though. Not that Guy will likely GAF about how it looks.

Speaking as the owner of 2 x raw alu bikes who – for better or worse – does GAF about how they look, and has thus spent far too long with Scotchbrite pads bringing back a nice brushed finish 😀

Team green! Lucky bugger.
I’m slightly envious.

@a11y – are you sure it hasn’t got a clear coat over the top?

The forks need matching Team Gweeen decals, not the orange clash at the moment.

And no pedals, so he couldn’t even ride it.

Internal cable routing. Can you imagine how much noise that makes?

are you sure it hasn’t got a clear coat over the top?

@AlexSimon, no mention of Guy’s one being clear coated but that’d be the my choice. The likes of Bird and Airdrop’s anniversary frame are (I believe) clear coated.

Mine certainly aren’t clear coated. I had issues with sweat dripping and staining the previously polished finish on my Geometron. I’ve refinished it in a duller, brushed style then acid etched it, hopefully prevent further oxidisation and staining:

I have a Bird raw and am a bit jealous of the weathering on the Geometron. I have considered stripping the Bird (ooeer).
In the vid they go straight from putting the decals on to dropping in the shock, so maybe it’s not coated.

Geometron is a different alloy to most alu frames, so itbweathers differently, so e alloys need the clearcoat.

Something doesn’t add up to me. In the other press release guff on FB it said he’d ridden 35,000 miles commuting on his old Orange. Why in God’s name is he commuting to Grimsby on an FS bike? There’s barely a bump let alone a hill.

Think he might have a Vitamin O as well, so possibly slight truth economy.

Or maybe he did ride to work on his 5, logic does not necessarily apply to Mr Martin’s decisions!

I guess both are possible. The 35,000 miles does add up right over 7 years though 🙂

I might be wrong but I understand from some of his books that for the most part he did commute on the Five. I guess he probably took to offroad / long-way-round most days!

He could do with a good scrub

Then how would we know he’s a truck mechanic? He’s a truck mechanic you know, didn’t he mention it?

Lovely bike but I agree that internal cable routing is a big mistake on modern MTBs. I think it came from the aerodynamic requirements of road bikes. I also avoid “stealth” cable routing on dropper posts which is also fairly pointless and creates extra servicing and installation faff.

The forks need matching Team Gweeen decals

Personally would go for black stanchions and seat post and stealth or silver decals on the forks and shock, but he semmed happy with it!

I’ve got a Spitfire engine, well, a Lancaster one but it’s still a Merlin. Can I turn the logic round and assume that means I can get that finish too??

Looks bloody lovely

My Orange is internal routed and doesn’t make any more noise than anything else.

Not sure how he’s got the bars slammed like that on an orange though, the headtubes are quite short.

bloody hell bloody hell, its got no pedals :0)

lovely looking.

Internal cable routing. Can you imagine how much noise that makes?

None really. I’ve got two of them.

I’d rather have external routing still. I’ve asked Orange and they seem set on keeping internal though.

I’ve been riding my new Five Evo (Matt finish bright blue) for a few weeks and with a rockshox ultimate deluxe rear shock it rides very differently to the Five’s I’ve had before. Very progressive rear travel. Although nice I’d take Guy’s blinged up version over mine!

I also avoid “stealth” cable routing on dropper posts which is also fairly pointless and creates extra servicing and installation faff.

That’s completely opposite to my experience. My first dropper post was external and got through cables at an alarming rate. It takes slightly longer to fit them, but once fitted my internal droppers go thousands of kms without cable replacement.

get in the bin. nowt worse than custom ‘matching’ fork decals!

The forks need matching Team Gweeen decals, not the orange clash at the moment.

Hope headset spacer was upside down. Wonder if that will ever get put right.

All that Hope team green kit but no pedals. Seems odd.

a custom Five Evo with a one-of-a-kind brushed alloy effect that isn’t available to people that don’t own their own Spitfire engine.

Guy doesn’t own one either… he sold it.

how many truck mechanics have a Aston Martin ?? agree with reeksy, I know he´s popular but something to me doesn´t add up

His commuting isn’t always a straight there and back, he’ll often take huge detours to help with his multi day bike race (Tour Divide etc) training. I’m sure Terrahawk on here can vouch for how quickly such miles add up (and has probably accompanied Guy on a good percentage of his miles). The figures quoted above are only 430-ish miles a month on average, so even if he only rode straight to work and back, say 10 miles there and 10 back, that’s 400 odd a month

how many truck mechanics have a Aston Martin ?

Eh? You do know he has another job?

“Eh? You do know he has another job?”
really!!
and there was innocent me thinking he was a down to earth mechanic on minimum wage rather than a media celebrity on big bucks 😉🚴‍♂️😎🍷🍺🌞

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