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Looking at a P7 on sale but would be transferring current nicer parts over. Anyone know who makes Orange’s hubs? Assuming it’s a Novatec of some kind.
Looking at a P7 on sale but would be transferring current nicer parts over. Anyone know who makes Orange’s hubs? Assuming it’s a Novatec of some kind.
Did you ever find out? Same question here..
They used Formula at some point. Sure they'll help if you contact them?
I contacted Orange at the time and was told just order the wheels complete and didn’t keep any spares. Couldn’t tell me which brand/ model they would be on a particular batch.
It was in their “difficult” patch, so may have been no-one left that actually knew.
Ended up selling the wheels straight away and putting on a better set I already had with an xd driver.
Cracking bike. Only used the frame and forks in the end, everything else was replaced with parts off my old frame and a few new spares I already had.
You could try asking Dave the yorkshire bike mechanic; he builds wheels for Orange (or at least he used to).
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheYorkshireBikeMechanic
the-yorkshire-bike-mechanic-shop@support.fourthwall.com
I would guess that he'd be building wheels for the UK bikes, not the Taiwan ones.
As Chest mentioned they used a Formula cartridge hub at one point (but you'd probably know if you had that because the pawls were crap) and Novatec at some points and also at least one weird thing that nobody seems to know what it is but that might be the same as modern ZTTOs.
If it's j pull spokes and you find the spoke lengths it's generally pretty easy to work back from that and replace the hub, if you're completely stuck. You can spend a lot on a rear hub but you don't really have to.
Mine on 2023 Stage Evo were Reynolds. Made of cheese before the freehub pawl punched through the hub shell... Lasted a couple of hundred miles tops.
I've now got a shiny XT built into that rim.
I think they use the 'strange' brand to be able to order whatever can be had cheap at the time.
I called Orange UK in the end. They said the solution was to buy a full hub off them for £90 and just swap over the freehub. I was asking because I want to upgrade the chain set, defo cheaper than a new set of wheels, and might be able to flog the hub afterwards..