Orange Go At It With Both Barrels

Orange have some shocking news this spring*

The Cane Creek Double Barrel supershock is available now on all 224-Evolution, Alpine 160 and Blood models.

The Cane Creek Double Barrel is one of those few components that causes a genuine stir in the mountain bike world. It hasn’t been hit hard with marketing or hype, it’s quietly come onto the scene and blown everything else out of the water. That’s how it works on the bike too, no crazy graphics or showy dials, it quietly gets on with annihilating the trail and every other shock you’ve ever ridden.

The key to the success of the Double Barrel shock is Öhlins’ Twin Tube technology. This system pumps oil through a continuous circuit allowing full control of both rebound and compression movements. Circulating the oil through the valving instead of the main piston allows independent remote adjustment not possible on other shocks. External adjustment eradicates the need for expensive custom tunes and allows easy setup according to track or weather conditions. You no longer need a factory race truck to revalve your shock, you can do it yourself. Öhlins might have made a name for themselves in motorsport, but along with Cane Creek their technology has revolutionised mountain bike suspension setup.

So why upgrade your Orange to the Cane Creek Double Barrel? True versatility. It “seemingly knows what terrain you are riding over and deals with it in stealth mode” (2010 Dirt 100). The movement is stiction free creating a limitless feel to the travel allowing the damping complete control of the shock and creating unbreakable traction on the trail. If you ride flats and continually bounce off the pedals, the Double Barrel will give you more control and let you hit stutter bumps without the fear. “This is one of, if not THE best piece of mountain bike equipment you can buy. It’s impossible to put into words how good this shock is” (Dirt #87).

The Double Barrel is the only upgrade you can buy to push even more out of your Orange frame, only you know if you need that sort of performance…

Spring rates:
We offer three options per model. These have taken into consideration rider weight distribution and preload based on approximately 30% sag at two collar turns.

Availability and pricing:
The Cane Creek Double Barrel is available as an upgrade on all 224-Evolution, Alpine 160 and Blood models.

Upgrade prices:
224-Evolution (to replace Fox DHX RC4) – £250

Alpine 160 (to replace Fox RP23) – £400

Blood (to replace Fox RP23) – £400

Steel spring only.

www.orangebikes.co.uk

www.canecreek.com

*Punnage due to excessive amounts of caffeine, sorry.

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24 thoughts on “Orange Go At It With Both Barrels

  1. I have one on my trail bike and would have no qualms about saying it represents value for money.

    It’s no more expensive than say a factory tuned DHX 5 and it still blows that out of the water. The new Fox RC4 is not far off in terms of price either.

  2. not taking the mick…OEM price of a mass produced shock by fox against a hand built in very small numbers shock.

    i know for a fact that bike shops, cane creek, orange, and extra (the cane creek importer) are not really making much money out of the double barrel.

    Orange are doing a very good thing, offering you the option to get your frame/bike with the best performing damper on the market. Expensive though

  3. ‘i know for a fact that bike shops, cane creek, orange, and extra (the cane creek importer) are not really making much money out of the double barrel.’

    If that’s the case how come everybody who sells Double Barrels online sells them for 10% less than RRP, where as most online retailers sell RP23’s for the RRP.

    If all shops are willing to knock 10% the RRP of a CCDB then they must buy them for at least 20% less than RRP. Therefore Orange will be buying CCDB for £480 (I’d hazard a guess they pay less than that). So that means that if Orange are charging £400 extra for a CCDB over a RP23 then they must get RP23’s for £80 or less.

    So either Orange are ripping people off or Fox are.

  4. I don’t think it’s fair that Orange should make any money, they should sell everything at a loss and run the company into the ground, making all the staff redundant, like most other British manufacturing companies have done.
    Phil

  5. Looking forward to seeing how they perform on the Alpine 160 as i have been thinking about upgrading my dhx 5 coil to one.I would think it will turn a truly great bike into an amazing one.

  6. cupid stunt/Phil – Don’t be a muppet, do a bit of maths and you’ll see Orange are ripping people off.

    If you bought a ‘non-upgraded’ Orange Blood you could easily sell on a brand new 2010 RP23 for £200, then buy yourself a Double Barrel for £540. Oh look at that you’ve just saved yourself £60.

  7. i am sure one would be great on an Alpine 160 or Blood, but on deciding to go a cheaper route i swopped an air can off my Patriot for a cheapo RS Vivid 5.1 coil from CRC at a fraction of the cost of the CCDB, and the change was still fantastic

  8. RRP on a Fox RC4 = £519.
    RRP on a CCDB = £535.

    Trade on the RC4 is £4 less than the CCDB.

    £250 on the 224 upgrade must be other reasons, eg quantity breaks, maintaining stock levels, spring options, set-up/build times etc etc etc

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