2021 Orange Five Evo review

Andi gives us the low down of the latest creation from Orange Bikes. The Orange Five Evo is a new model for 2021 and features a new shorter travel chassis with long and slack geometry. Orange has released this 27.5in bike along with a 29er model both focusing on progressive geometry rather than long travel and the recipe works! A few years ago I reviewed the Orange Four and I concluded that the short travel, single-pivot Orange was probably the bike most riders should be on. Its lightweight frame, decent geometry and progressive short travel made the Orange Four a playful bike in most trail situations, and even when the terrain became seriously technical and chunky the plucky little Orange dived right in. The Orange Four is no longer part of the Orange line-up, but its spirit lives on in the all-new Orange Five Evo, a short travel suspension bike that can tackle way more than its fork length might suggest. But to say that the new Orange Five Evo is just a new Orange Four wouldn’t be doing Halifax’s latest justice, after all, there’s a reason that the new bike is a Five. The Five Evo makes up 50% of the new range of Evo bikes designed, tested and handmade in the UK. Also released today is the Stage Evo, a short travel 29er with new school geometry, but it’s the smaller wheeled Five Evo which blurs the lines between big travel bruisers and sorted short travel trail whippets. Read the full review here https://singletrackworld.com/2020/06/review-2021-orange-five-evo-le-short-travel-big-hitter/