Orange Five with a 150 fork. Your experience?

mattbibbings

Hello,
Quick query. Is anyone out there running a Five with 150mm forks instead of 140mm? if so, whats your thoughts on this?

I'm thinking of buying Five frame and hanging all my bits off my Zesty on it. I swapped out the fork on the Zesty to a Rockshox revelation. The change from 140 to 150mm on the zesty seemed to be all good (slackened things up a bit) so I hope it will be the same story with a Five.

Thanks for helping. Matt

supersonic

Many people run 160 - but why swap to the orange 5?

The Northern Monkey

Aye, whats wrong with the Zesty?

tom_howard

The Northern Monkey wrote:

Aye, whats wrong with the Zesty?

Indeed, what's right with a 5?

*takes cover*

mattbibbings

Nowt really wrong with the Zesty. I have loved mine. Had it two years now and time for a change. I really fancy the simplicity of the Five. Simple as that really. Plus, god knows how many satisfied five owners surly cant be wrong! (Takes cover himself!)

supersonic

Test one first - the suspension is indeed very simple and will feel different from the zesty.

delcol

my experience or should that be friends experience is they crack,, i seen 4 2011 5s crack this year.....
so dont bother... buy a bike that wont crack...


ducks and crawls for cover...

ftwizard

delcol wrote:

buy a bike that wont crack...

Good luck with that then.......

angry_bird

1) Orange fives are the bestest bikes ever and you shouldn't say bad things about them. MBR says so :roll:

2) I've seen a few cracked this year too, but to be fair on Orange, the people I know who's frames did crack managed to get them replaced very quickly and easily. Then again with so many of them about (see point 1 for the reason why) there are bound to be a few faulty.

mattbibbings

Cracked Fives? I'd have to agree with Angry Bird here. It's a numbers thing. A certain percentage of everything will break.

Back to back demo of Five and Heckler in the very near future.

delcol

had my heckler 4 years it had a hard life to being thrashed in whistler did 6 trips. with that bike.. was an amazing bike.. especially with a fox 36 160 fork,,

miss notax

I run 140 forks on my 5 - it can 'apparently' run 150, but as it's only a 14" frame I think that would be ridiculous - but Notax has 150 on his and is really pleased with it.

And no, neither frame has cracked

angry_bird

miss notax wrote:

I run 140 forks on my 5 - it can 'apparently' run 150, but as it's only a 14" frame I think that would be ridiculous - but Notax has 150 on his and is really pleased with it.

Strangely neither frame has cracked yet... :?

FTFY

Matt 24k

I run a Revelation 120-150mm U turn on my 5. Usually run at 140mm but use 150mm for steeper downhill runs and the slacker angle, longer travel feels less twitchy and give me more confidence . Feels a little front end light at 150mm climbing for me but it all depends on your riding style, amount of sag etc etc.
I love the simplicity of the single pivot design and really don't understand all the haters. All bikes have their plus and minus points eg a few Lapierre bikes have cracking issues and dodgy BB30.

DodgeT

Matt 24k wrote:

really don't understand all the haters. All bikes have their plus and minus points eg a few Lapierre bikes have cracking issues and dodgy BB30.

Don't get me wrong, I don't "hate" them, but to follow on from your comment... at least Lapierre's don't look like they've been cobbled together with all the left overs out of the scrap metal bin.

delcol

at least snapierre sorted the cracking issues out.. and i guess they will sort the bb30 thing out to..

really don't understand all the haters

guess it's like man utd you either love em or you hate um,,, (depends if you a cockney or asian) :roll: :P

styxd

Simple single pivot frames for simpletons.

cooldad

Don't think it's got as much to do with the bikes (although a bit overpriced) as the owners on some fora who think they are gods gift to bikers, so they get a bit of stick here - bit of a forum thing.
I blame Wiggle.

.blitz

dont forget you will need an Audi to go with the Five

miss notax

Phew, i've escaped then! Riding a 5 AND obviously being gods gift to bikers I was starting to worry.... :?

DodgeT

.blitz wrote:

dont forget you will need an Audi to go with the Five

Oi, i've got an Audi and its the besterest ever :evil: :evil:

1mancity2

DodgeT wrote:

.blitz wrote:

dont forget you will need an Audi to go with the Five

Oi, i've got an Audi and its the besterest ever :evil: :evil:

Yours isn't a real Audi, you don't have blacked out windows!!!

DodgeT

Knew I was missing something

delcol

bet he got 19 inch rims on it though.

.blitz

DodgeT wrote:

Oi, i've got an Audi and its the besterest ever

Yes but is it an S4 Avant?

DodgeT

18" and it is an avant.. not an S4 though unfortunately, although have been looking at them
Great for chucking the bikes in.

delcol

especially a orange 5..

.blitz

DodgeT wrote:

18" and it is an avant.. not an S4 though unfortunately

Close enough

Did it come with a Five?

DodgeT

Fortunately not Would of got a few quid for it on ebay though, as thats straight where it would have gone..

.blitz

Lucky escape

cooldad

miss notax wrote:

Phew, i've escaped then! Riding a 5 AND obviously being gods gift to bikers I was starting to worry.... :?

I'd accept the gift but notax might get miffed.