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OK, so I am wondering what a couple of the colours look like on the 5 - normal and custom, and the new ones.
I have the usual silver / orange / blue colours.
Anyone got any other colours? Post the pics!
Its an insurance cost limited option - So speccing up a 5 'S' but with Float R's, Hope hubs n hope headset - and I have option of custom colour or the Maxle rear or UST...any thoughts?
oh, and 6' ers - what size did you go for? I was 18" on my old Sub5, and fall 'in between' sizes....Smaller n big seatpost I think...
'Original' orange here :
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'Striker orange' - 5'11" - 16": 36 vans, v2's, tubeless; would have got maxle but didn't want to wait the few weeks this would have entailed.
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Not sure how you post images.
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/1883003/
Currently has a broken rear hub.......
*puts sunglasses on*
niiice orange leeph - not an Orange paint job though...?
Any greens, gold, red or the light blue (like the ST4 on the front page)?
"niiice orange leeph - not an Orange paint job though...?"
it's the old Orange Clockwork paint job innit? maybe if you ask Orange Nicely 😉
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Passion red for me;-)
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Two in one..........
Passion red and Chrome grey
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nice, but not sure i could live with it.
Chrome grey with a matt black rear end
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Going for a custom gangreen powder colour scheme with a specially stensiled back end!
Powder Blue
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Fools Gold
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White, pure!
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Damn, damn, damn!
Matt, I'm very disappointed right now. I'd love to contribute to your thread, I really would. However, I can't for these reasons:
a) I haven't yet told my partner that I bought a new bike, so it is stored in a safe, neutral location.
b) I haven't yet taken a picture of my bike (due to storage conditions, it's not used as regular as it should really be)
c) Due to new forum setup, and my technological ignorance, I would not be sure just how to get any photos of mine transferred for viewing on this forum.
However, what I can tell you is this:- it sat in a shop window back in June, and as I passed the shop my eyes were drawn straight to it. I fell in love immediately. I felt like Garth from Wayne's World when 'foxy lady' walked through the diner. I swore to myself that "One day, she will be mine. Oh Yes, she will be mine"
Fast fwd to new year's eve, and I'm in the shop with a cash deposit ready to sign away a certain amount of my income every month for two years. The ex-demo model had been used, but certainly not abused. Her unique (for a Five I'm told) coat shimmered and glimmered as it did that first day we met.
My girl was away for a few days, so I brought the bike home and cared for her, fed her, washed her, and rode her twice - both times on a cold frosty day, under clear ice-blue skies. These conditions showed up her Apple-green covering like a dream, and the sparkly lacquer mesmerised all who saw her.
God-damn, I wanna show you the lot, and I mean everything. The gentle curve of her top-tube, the firmness of her bottom-bracket, even the rear-facing split in her seat-tube. Oooh, I am awful.
I tell you what - if you, or any others can advise me on the best way to take, store and then display pictures on this forum, you shall have a peek at perfection by this time on Tuesday. If the snow lies and the sun shines tomorrow, it will create the perfect canvas on which to expose her beauty.
MikeT-23
This colour? I like this one...
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MikeT-23,
You've got issues mate..... 😉
Some great colours.....but one great bike.
Fools gold - gets my vote.
New neon green is where its at! My frame is currently at Orange getting redone as we speak, will post some pictures when its back.
8) << will be needing these
neon green n rims?
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nnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woohoo...Yeah baby!!! Greentastic!!!
wheres the pink ones =,(
that green one looks like its glowing!
Like Mike Ts green one. I do assume it isn't just the pic quality that makes it look different to the neon green further on.
Would like to see the fools gold in the flesh. Not sure picture does the subtle colour justice.
The first green one is apple green i think.
That neon green one with the green rims is vile! Ill be running mine with ex1750s which (in my head) i think will look ok!
Weve done 2 custom 5s (1 pro and 1 SE) in the neon green and they look fantastic. The P7s look superb in the new bright colours too.
Matt
That first green 5 - that's it. Same colour exactly. I was gonna say I'll sleep comfortably this evening, but then I saw her......that hussy in the neon green. She's just trying too hard to be noticed. And you know what - it kinda works - nightmares instead.
thanks for that though
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(in camo mode)
Liking the white (but being a tart it feels sooo 2008... 😉 )
Mike T-23: I thought it was just me who feels like that with my bikes....! Brilliant! Thanks for cheering up my Monday morning!
i thought you got rid of an orange 5 matt?, you know the saying "never go back"
RD, I got rid of it with a tear in my eye after 7.5 wonderful and reliable years....It went as it was really starting to wear out (shock mounts had started ovalising, cable rub was deep in places, headtube had started ovalising etc - and my 13.5st pounding it down the Beast etc was liable to bust it at some point... 🙁
The Niner was a wonderful bike - much better than expected, but a mid travel/all day FS would be good. Tempted by a Prophet or 5 (and) Rize or ST4. 5 looks like the winner at the moment - ST4 you can only get with RLC upgrade, not Float R's, so making it even pricier...
Matt, if you were buying an ST4 I'm sure whatever shop you approached they would be willing to provide Rs instead of RLCs and adjust the price accordingly. Although Orange offer decent option packages with their bikes most shops are willing to tailor to suit. Buyers market mate!
get an st4, to be just like moi matty boy
You have ST4? pics? Just been working out that Bikeactive do an ST4 Pro, and with an upgrade to RLC's is only £10 over 'budget'.....
And for the pink request...
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orange is very much a STW punters brand, not unlike my Trek......bugger
a) I haven't yet told my partner that I bought a new bike, so it is stored in a safe, neutral location.
😆 brilliant
lol
Experience of Orange is they are great - both for bikes and sails....
[i]You have ST4? pics? Just been working out that Bikeactive do an ST4 Pro, and with an upgrade to RLC's is only £10 over 'budget'.....[/i]
aye, just got the frame on friday, powder blue looks well tasty, wound down pikeys on the front, XT, blah blah. Pics later in the week when all built up
Wonder if they could be persuaded to do a 'raw' Alpine160, like Intense do their frames?
Fools gold does need to be seen in the flesh - I personally like it because it's a nice match for the stanchion colour but also because it tends to take on the colour of the ambient light - almost silver in midday sun but very bronzy in sunset light, quite cold and bluey in early morning. It doesn't seem to suffer from top tube clouding as much.
Plus I've never passed another one on the trail so it's good for vanity sake.
Wonder if they could be persuaded to do a 'raw' Alpine160, like Intense do their frames?
My brother has just gone half way through this process, he got the raw frame from Orange and then had it shot blasted, but was then struggling to find someone to polish it for him so just had it built up like that. Haven't got any pictures but it looks nice, not disimilar to fools gold but more matt silver looking. He got the idea as Rowan Sorrel rides a polished one, [img] 
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Oh sweet jesus, colour coded rims are now an option - fools gold rims - lursh!
Mike-outandabout's Apple Green is my fave so far
Dirt have a '5' article this month, with the frame and swingarm polished by a local metal polishers..........reminds me of my old chrome finsh san andreas..............(drifts off dreaming...........)
Nightride stealth colours
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Cheers all - order placed.
Pics will be posted when it arrives 😉
wah did you get matty?
Colour???
Not telling.
*now has to sit out 7-10 days of anticipation*
boring grey.....
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Here's mine 2005 painted recently and my pop's 2006 black one.
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I want one of these now.
Buggers.
Steve Jones' one from this months Dirt weighs in at 25.2 pounds. Looks great in the polished finish too.
Hmm, those pics make me feel like I want those longer forks after all...
funny, looking at all the pics made me wonder if 140mm was too much 90% of the time.... 😕
Na, I always feel like I'm on a 120mm bike until I cock things up and that 20mm in the bank is there to save you...
I have to admit, naturally I like my Five the most in this thread but ChunkyPaul's in chrome grey certainly comes close!
That and Richy's powder blue but it really needs those Fox lowers in white!
When I grow up, I've promised myself that I'm finally going to get an orange with a matching swingarm, they are so much nicer. Here's mine anyway (if the picture posting mechanism is still the same), the colour is Laser Blue. It's a really lovely anodised looking colour. Unfortunately, it's also paper thin 😥 and has been the only source of dissapointment I've had in nearly 10yrs as an Orange fan spanning five bikes now.
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Orange 5's are overrated
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O go on then....here's mine in default '07 Pro colour of Silver.
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I took this photo many moons ago when it was brand spankin' new, never been ridden and just collected from the shop. Nearly two years on I still love the thing but I'm seriously tempted to send it back to Halifax and have it painted Cloud White.
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goog, what size is yours?
Looks like an 18"
Can anyone tell what size Richyb's is?
freeform5spot, are you asking about googs bike (the black 5) or my bike (silver 5)? goog posted the image for me because I'm a dumbass?
If mine, then its an 18". Seatpost was exceptionally high as I'd not set it up for me at that point as it was striaght from the shop. Still haven't creosoted that fence panel.
Can anyone tell what size Richyb's is?
It's a 16"...
cheers.
funny, looking at all the pics made me wonder if 140mm was too much 90% of the time.... [:?]
What have you got? Swap?
molgrips - MemberWhat have you got? Swap?
Its on its way, and I am not telling...shhhh
Hollywell Green with no stickers - being a belfast man I thought it was best not to have the word "ORANGE" down the side of me bike...
Sorry to offend all you's orange riders but .. they are seriously ugly looking bikes 🙁
show us a pretty one mrmojo
Sorry to offend all you's orange riders but .. they are seriously ugly looking bikes [:(]
Post your bike or GTFO! 😛
I love it when people start with things like "Sorry to offend" or "No offence but" - it's like a polite way of announcing you're about to be c**t...
Take mrmojo outside for the stoning ceremony. With oranges
I had a quick go on an 18" Five Pro. I gave it back really quickly otherwise I would have decided that I 'needed' one.