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Submitted by
Mykel Johnson
a Downhiller
from uk
Date Reviewed: April 15, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | ??????? | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Rutland water cycles | | Strengths: | very good jump frame | | Weaknesses: | bottom bracket | | Similar Products Used: | urrrrrr misile | | Bike Setup: | Jump
| | Bottom Line: | very very good frame part from on the older modles they have put a normal bb and on the new ones its a heavy duty one so go out and buy a misile cus there the next best thing to da aero. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
euan crozier
a Downhiller
from fife scotland
Date Reviewed: January 10, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | innerliethen technical nightmare | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$350.00 | | Strengths: | strong, corners well inspires more confidence the bigger the air you get and generally is amazing on all aspects of the trails | | Weaknesses: | dodgy orange dealer in my area | | Similar Products Used: | ms isle | | Bike Setup: | bomber z1s, three piece crank, mavic 521 and hope wheels | | Bottom Line: | must have bike for hard aggresive riding and confidece while riding big jumps and drops | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
polo monkey
a Weekend Warrior
from petoborough
Date Reviewed: December 15, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | strong | | Weaknesses: | came with crap forks(manitou) | | Bike Setup: | jump | | Bottom Line: | exalant frame but comes with dodgy bits | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike Square
a Weekend Warrior
from uk
Date Reviewed: August 12, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | do trials not trails | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | Ga cycles (Southampton) | | Strengths: | Strong frame,8.4 miles of stand over hieght ,high bottom bracket hight,indestructable gusseting um......Handles like a leming pumped with steroids(well).Nice 4" thick Down tube not likely to break this side of the millenium. handles much better with long travel forks( Z1 mcr qr20) | | Weaknesses: | Rear gear cable rubs against brake mount (rear Mech cable)
easily fixed though,seat stays may flex with powerfull v-brake without brake booster. | | Similar Products Used: | Dr Hyde(identt) 14"
Kona Stuff 14" | | Bike Setup: | Orange Air-O frame
Deore gear set up 9spd, DDG trials Cranks taya chain
rigid cro-mo forks, 24 seven bars+stem+grips
Azonic Hot seat =Titec seat post, Sun Mum-Muff on Deore hubs
Avid sd1 levers with ad3 brakes
Tioga 2.1 factary DH with IRC DOWNHILL TUBE
Hope that got you modaratly breathless. | | Bottom Line: | Smart bike if set up to how you like it.
Good for trials(zero too short+crap),Jump,trails,maybe even xc, could be used for duel but ms-ile better for that.
great for learning how to risk your life going up and down.
You either have to be really Stupid or amazingly god like to snap the frame. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alistair Willimont
a Weekend Warrior
from Hertfordshire
Date Reviewed: April 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Thetford Forest | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$500.00 | | Purchased At: | Madgets Cycles | | Strengths: | Small flickable frame, Ideal for trials, street,and trails as long as your'e not too tall. Love it. | | Weaknesses: | If I had to think of one I'd say the weight, although its not the heaviest out their by a long way. | | Similar Products Used: | Cortina, Heavy tools, Beast of the east | | Bike Setup: | Z1 CR's Hope DH4 front, Magura Rear, White Industries Cranks with DMR ring thing Azonic shorty with chubby bars | | Bottom Line: | I have been riding this frame for just under a year now, and have never regreted choosing it, it is a great bike for, dare I say it "free-riding" (Uhg!) Its at home anywhere and instills a sense of confidence whether you are jumping over things or hopping up/off them. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mallet
a
from norfolk
Date Reviewed: February 18, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Bottom Line: | i am very pissed off with Orange. They have now had my frame for 6 weeks! 6 weeks.
I phoned orange after 2 weeks of them having it to be told that they still had not opened the box that i had sent the bike in, they said they would get it sorted straight away!
The next day i recieve a call from the shop where i bought it from to say they would replace it for me.
i was quite happy at this point as i thought i would have my bike sorted so i could ride again, later that day i recieved another call from the local bike shop saying that as it was a weld that had cracked they would weld it back up for me, i was cool with this as i was told that orange were normally quite quick, i guessed a bout 10 days (3 days welding(1 hours work), 3 days heat tretment(26 hour process), 2 days painting and 2 days gettting it to me)
So that brings the total up to 4 weeks.
By this time i was becoming quite upset (pictures of orange riders being used as a dart board on bedroom door type upset)
My local bike shop were becoming fed up with my 2 calls a day to see if it had arrived!
The shop said my best bet was to phone orange myself, so i did, the first time they siad that they would phone me back, they never did. Same story the next day, this time i made them promise that they would call me back, did they hell. The next day I phoned to inform them that i wanted to arrange a refund as i was trully pissed off, they said that i would have to arrange it with the shop. Anyway the shop phone me back saying that orange were not going to refund me but they would fix it instead. They hadn't even started, my bike had been sitting about for 4 weeks.
looking back i wish i had ridden the bike untill it had snapped then they would have had to have given me a new one!
Therefore i would just like to say orange has to be one of the worst companies ever!
This whole experience has left me feeling bitter and i intend on making everyone aware of this incredably poor 'service' they 'provide'.
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Submitted by
Rich
a Weekend Warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: February 16, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Very strong and excellent ride..makes you go for it!! | | Weaknesses: | A little small for me maybe. 6'1" Though not a real problem. | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | Z1 Bombers XT/XTR Race face seat pin..custom build. | | Bottom Line: | If they did an 18" it would have been perfect. As it is it is still a brilliant fun missile.I would have scored it 5/5 but for the lack of sizes.. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mallet
a
from norfolk, uk
Date Reviewed: January 31, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Strengths: | made in the uk, thick tubing, disc mount, 5 year warranty- | | Weaknesses: | made in the uk, disc mount weld very weak, 2 other cracks. orange have had it now for three weeks, 6 phone calls, still no delivery date! | | Similar Products Used: | dmr, cortina, pashley, santa cruz, azonic | | Bike Setup: | many nice trials bits sitting in my local shop waiting for a frame! | | Bottom Line: | it is a nice frame that rides well and is worth buying if you can put up with dodgy welds and can also do a bit of home welding when it brakes as orange certainly don't want to. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
DAVID C
a Weekend Warrior
from READING BERKSHIRE ENGLAND
Date Reviewed: November 20, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | TILEHURST SULOUGM WOODS | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Purchased At: | SECOND HAND | | Strengths: | SIZE STRENGTH OVERALL CLASS OF THE BIKE EASY TO JUMP AND PROFORM STUNTS ON | | Weaknesses: | COULD HAVE HAD A BETTER COULOUR THAN BLACK LIKE THE COLOUR OF THE ARMY JACK FLASH | | Similar Products Used: | JACKFLASH NOT HALF AS GOOD BUT IT HAD THE UPPERHAND ON THE COLOUR | | Bike Setup: | ZZYZX BULLET BROS I THINK THATS RIGHT 6" TRAVEL FORKS HYDROLIC BRAKES FRONT AND REAR,AZONIC HANDLE BARS AND AZONIC STEM WITH BONTRAGER RACE DISK WHEELSET,DMR RING THING,MIDDLEBURN RS7 TRIALS CRANK,ELITE SKEWERS FRONT AND REAR,S-5 HEADSET AND PANARACER FIRE XCPRO TYRES | | Bottom Line: | BRILLIANT FRAME A MUST HAVE SO GO AND GET ONE NOW!!!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nic
a Weekend Warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: April 22, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Good price, great size and geometry | | Weaknesses: | weight i suppose but its a jump frame so who cares | | Bike Setup: | duel bike: hopes, azonic | | Bottom Line: | I reccon this is one of the strongest frames around, hand built in the UK (always good) from top grade aluminium (DT, ie same as good spokes) 3mm wall thickness, 8mm thick dropouts.
Not totally indestructable, I know some one who has broken 2 ( and 2 missiles) but that was with triple clamps off a 12 foot drop to concrete, with a 15 foot flight. however, it was only the headtube that stretched out, the bike was still rideable. This does not make me give it a lower rating as any hard tail would self destruct with this type of riding. The best you can get!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark Quinton-Tulloch
a Weekend Warrior
from Somerset, England
Date Reviewed: March 12, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Bradley Hollow | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Nice and small, incredibly strong, looks great, nice and stiff yet doesn't give a harsh ride. | | Weaknesses: | None that I can find | | Bike Setup: | Marzocchi Bomber Z1BAMs, Hope Pro System disc brakes, MRP Duel Slalom chain device, XT/XTR, X-Lite stem, saddle + seatpsot, Roox Bomber 4.0 bars, Hope Bulb hubs, Mavic D321CD rims, IRC Kujo DH tyres. | | Bottom Line: | The ultimate duel slalom/dirt jumping frame - strong yet fairly light, easy to chuck about, stable in the air and encourages you to go faster and harder. If you're after long trail rides then it may be too small (although they do a medium sized version as well now) but if you're into street riding, dirt jumping or duel slalom then this could be the perfect bike for you. The short frame handles tight, twisty singletrack with ease and the low top-tube allows you to bring the bike up underneath you when jumping, and also allows you to bail more easily when things get a bit out of shape! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rob
a Downhiller
from banbury, uk
Date Reviewed: January 20, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | new bottle | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | strong, well built, british made, same rear end as msisle, cheaper then msisle, laodsa standover, alright price, £400 not £350, although i got it for £360 in the lesure lakes sale. encourages you to push your limits | | Weaknesses: | uuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm............................ encourages you to push your limits too far | | Similar Products Used: | specialized rockhopper A1 FS | | Bike Setup: | maz bomber z3 lt's single chainring | | Bottom Line: | awesome frame awesome bike, as for the lack of bottle mounts, this is a jump bike not a xc bike, so if you want bottle mounts buy a xc bike instead. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Gallagher
a Downhiller
from England
Date Reviewed: January 12, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Iford BMX Track | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Nice size very strong. | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | DMR Trailstar Azonic DS-1 | | Bike Setup: | None | | Bottom Line: | Nice bike, good price | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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