My new Orange 5

[missing the VR6]

As the title say's my new bike, just whoring the pics about as I love it!

[Engineer1]

Awesomely manly colour

[missing the VR6]

Oh yes, absolutely nothing gay about it at all!!!!

[MadDad]

Love it, but you'd better be good!!!!

[missing the VR6]

MadDad said:

Love it, but you'd better be good!!!!

Yeah that's the only thing troubling me, I'm fairly competent on singletrack happy to do any red and most black runs in the UK but need to improve my jumps and drops, now I've got a more AM type bike I'm going to do a jumps and drops skills day with UK bike skills.

[anonymous-user]

Nice bike! just try not to "match" all your gear and accessories to the colour too........... ;-)

[Gizmo!]

Max_Torque said:

Nice bike! just try not to "match" all your gear and accessories to the colour too........... ;-)

Tell people it's for tit-cancer awareness?

[rhinochopig]

Gizmo! said:

Tell people it's for tit-cancer awareness?

I think people will be well aware that the rider is a tit

[missing the VR6]

rhinochopig said:

I think people will be well aware that the rider is a tit

You don't even know the half of it! Text book Audi/BMW Oakleys check, neon pink and black Nike Air Max check, quite frankly tit is putting it nicely, I've been refering to it as my c@nt spec Orange 5!

[996 sps]

Lovely, I had my heart set on one but not the right bike for what I needed.

I'm jealous.

[anonymous-user]

Are you going to go the whole hog and get the fork colour coded? (at least take off the silly Fox stickers...... ;-)

[missing the VR6]

Max_Torque said:

Are you going to go the whole hog and get the fork colour coded? (at least take off the silly Fox stickers...... ;-)

I quite like the contrast of the white fork, and the Kashima coating give it enough bling!!!!

[missing the VR6]

996 sps said:

Lovely, I had my heart set on one but not the right bike for what I needed.

I'm jealous.

Remember reading a post you made ref them a few months ago I think, they really are amazing, took it round Bedgebury yesterday and it just hammers it, off to Wales next week for 3 days riding, I cant wait! It just makes you smile and totally enjoy yurself, and it's a pretty good skill compensator!!!

[996 sps]

Max_Torque said:

Are you going to go the whole hog and get the fork colour coded? (at least take off the silly Fox stickers...... ;-)

The forks look lovely end of imo.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

996 sps said:

Lovely, I had my heart set on one but not the right bike for what I needed.

I'm jealous.

Same here...



...although i still ended up getting one, and love it.

[MadDad]

missing the VR6 said:

Yeah that's the only thing troubling me, I'm fairly competent on singletrack happy to do any red and most black runs in the UK but need to improve my jumps and drops, now I've got a more AM type bike I'm going to do a jumps and drops skills day with UK bike skills.

You won't regret it, I invested in a advanced course last year - really improved the small aspects of my riding that made a really big difference! Like you I was more than happy at red and black runs, big drops etc but knew I could be better. One tip though, for the first few weeks after the course I found that I was over-thinking things too much when in the saddle, if you spend too much time thinking about your technique you will crash - I did!!!!!

Loving the bike...........I hit 40 this year and a Five is up there on the present list!

[996 sps]

Obiwonkeyblokey said:

Same here...



...although i still ended up getting one, and love it.

I'll still get one think they are lovely but need to get this racing bug out of my system first.

[missing the VR6]

MadDad said:

You won't regret it, I invested in a advanced course last year - really improved the small aspects of my riding that made a really big difference! Like you I was more than happy at red and black runs, big drops etc but knew I could be better. One tip though, for the first few weeks after the course I found that I was over-thinking things too much when in the saddle, if you spend too much time thinking about your technique you will crash - I did!!!!!

Loving the bike...........I hit 40 this year and a Five is up there on the present list!

I did a skills course in Scotland last year which was great and has really helped my riding, but now I want to really improve my drops and jumps.

I have to say it really it a fantastic bit of kit, think you need to treat yourself!

[a11y_m]

I can't see the photos at work but from the comments I'm guessing it's bright pink?! That's in good company - look at the colour of the likes of Joe Barnes' bikes (MTB Cut rider): they ride Oranges and their signature colour is pink, I think it suits the Orange perfectly...


2011-06-06 FWWC (47) Joe Barnes by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

[rhinochopig]

a11y_m said:

I can't see the photos at work but from the comments I'm guessing it's bright pink?! That's in good company - look at the colour of the likes of Joe Barnes' bikes (MTB Cut rider): they ride Oranges and their signature colour is pink, I think it suits the Orange perfectly...


2011-06-06 FWWC (47) Joe Barnes by Ally Mitchell, on Flickr

There's the rub though. You've GOT to be good to ride a pink bike - like gold football boots.

I quite like the colour but am nowhere near good enough to pull it off. In fact I could do with a bike painted in camouflage.