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Check out all the details here https://singletrackworld.com/2019/03/the-new-orange-alpine6-is-exactly-the-same-until-you-look-closer-and-realise-that-everythings-changed/
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hi this is chips from single track
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magazine and I'm here with the 2020
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orange Alpine 6 brand new for this year
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and while it may look very similar to
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Alpine sixes that have gone before it's
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completely
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different uh just about every tube has
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had a rework uh there's lots of
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different aspects going on in the
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suspension and frame design um kind of
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subtle things but a lot of stuff's been
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going on so I'll uh I'll just take you
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through it let's start with the amazing
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color this is a Wasabi nice green color
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there's uh I think six standard colors
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the decals are very different this year
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uh there's no orange logo here on the
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down tube uh before there was big orange
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logo and it always kind of interfered
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with the chalk Mount and everything and
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I think orange realized that everyone
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knows it's an orange so so you don't
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need to make it super obvious so this
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here is the only orange logo on the bike
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apart from a little made in Britain logo
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on the uh on the bottom of the down
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tube still all hand hand welded in
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Halifax uh only the seat tube remains
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from the previous Alpine everything else
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has been changed been worked the subtle
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differences in in all of the frame um
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components uh big difference this year
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is the inclusion of metric shocks uh
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which are all slightly longer and orange
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has kind of nibbled away at the shock
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mounts at either end to to fit these uh
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metric shocks in um and the metric
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shocks uh as well as just being the
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newer version of rear suspension uh they
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allow a lot more tuning and it's a the
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Next Generation in in rear shock so
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should allow a lot more uh volume tuning
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and room for all these clever piggyback
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shocks which uh suit the Alpine really
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well cable routing has changed so uh the
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holes for the cables have moved forward
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on that towards head tube which means
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that there's less of the sort of
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sticking sideways and interfering with
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your knees um moving down here we'll
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ignore this for a minute and we'll come
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back to that uh the cables exit the
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bottom of the down tube and they go
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under the swing arm now and into the
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insides of the the raay chain stay
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instead of going into the uh tube which
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probably makes the section stronger but
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also is is a bit less fiddly as well
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when you're fitting fitting your
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cables uh there is a bottle cage Orange
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has uh has finally given those who like
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to run with the bottle the option uh so
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there's one bottle cage uh pair of
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mounts down there uh Orange has supplied
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this neat little rubber capped Camelback
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Podium bottle and uh in our recent week
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of testing I think we only saw one one
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bottle eject itself and that was without
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any sort of retaining strap or or
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whatever so uh we'll see at least you
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have the option there now in terms of uh
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angles the head tube uh head tube is
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slightly shorter the head angle is half
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degree slacker 65 I think 64 sorry uh
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the effective seat tube angle is
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74° the bottom bracket is lowered by 5
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mil and the uh pivot position is lowered
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by 5 mil as well all subtle changes but
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um orange is confident that it really
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makes a difference noticeable difference
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on this on this new model we have here
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the Alpine 6 Factory spec which is the
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nearly top spec version it's got the
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hope breakes you've got Factory 36s
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you've got a float X2 BG Tech bars and
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stem hope headset Eagle uh because
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because why not stands wheels and Max's
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Tires there is one version up from this
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uh which is the xdr version if I get my
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cheat sheet here the uh the Alpine 6 Pro
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will start at 4 grand uh the factory
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that we have here is £
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5,800 there's an Alpine 6 RS for £
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4950 the XTR is going to be £6,500
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and a frame is going to be £2,100
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we've got better Tire clearance we've
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got room for I these are uh 2.4 wide
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Trails on pretty wide flow rims and
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there's tons and tons of Tire clearance
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here uh they don't say that there that
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you can fit 2.6 uh but a 2.4 uh wide
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Trail will uh will fit just fine um so
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obviously
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275 um we don't need to say that I'm
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sure the pivots are 5 mil wider each
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side so gives more stability obviously
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10 mil overall uh increase in stiffness
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there six colors of the frames uh Wasabi
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as I said there's a uh what do I see
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very nice blue there'll be an orange and
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black and there'll be a black and
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orange
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um and surprisingly they should be in
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shops as you read this so if you go to
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your local shop they'll be just whisking
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off the silk sheet and you'll be able to
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buy them this week
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so brand new bike may look similar but
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it's very different the orange Alpine 6
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so go to Orange bikes. co.uk for more
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details on that have a look at the uh
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story we've got up on single track
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world.com for all the full details with
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it all the numbers the geometry and all
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that kind of stuff and now that uh we've
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shot this we can get out and ride it
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right this has been chips from single
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track magazine
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with a new orange
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lp6 see angle is 74° which
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is wow there's someone revving a hot rod
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outside some pretty good
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