My Orange Alpine 160

MacAndCheese

I know I'm going to be open to abuse for this one, but I like it. Had it a while but just added the orange wheels so gave it a clean up:








Full spec:

Frame: Orange Alpine 160 2012 -Disco black
Forks: 2011 55 Bombers RC3 ti purple
Shock: CCDB
Wheels: Superstar AM
Bars/stem: Easton Havoc
Cranks: Raceface Atlas AM
Pedals: Spank Spike
Chain guide: E-thirteen SRS
Shifter/rear mech/cassette: XT ten speed
Brakes: Shimano XT
Headset & BB: Hope
Seatpost: CB Joplin 4
Saddle: WTB pure V
Tyres: Maxxis Minion Front, Highroller Rear

chez_m356

interesting colour combo you have going on there, no doubt when it is it's usual colour (mud) it all comes together

very nice

5tew ST

Top looking bike like it a lot

rockmonkeysc

What is it with Orange owners and their multi coloured bikes?
Nice build, not sure about the black / orange / purple colours though.

pesky_jones

RockmonkeySC wrote:

What is it with Orange owners and their multi coloured bikes?

We're all descendants of Joseph, and dreamcoats are old fashioned

rockmonkeysc

Pesky Jones wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

What is it with Orange owners and their multi coloured bikes?

We're all descendants of Joseph, and dreamcoats are old fashioned

Im not, I'm an athiest and therefore a descendant of primordial slime.

MacAndCheese

thanks for the replies, I know the purple/orange combo isn't to everyone's taste! To be honest its the little bits of gold that really annoy me (on the shock, seatpost and chain guide) If there was a way to get them changed to orange or purple I reckon it would pull the whole bike together.

pesky_jones

Personally I think the only thing throwing it out are the purple lowers. If they were black it would look better - in my opinion obviously

DodgeT

Pesky Jones wrote:

Personally I think the only thing throwing it out are the purple lowers. If they were black it would look better - in my opinion obviously

Apart from the above.. it actually... looks.... OK.

MacAndCheese

To be honest the forks are unlikely to change (apart from being purple they're great forks!)
although I am tempted to send the frame back to orange and get it resprayed in "deep purple" like this one:

Team515

Very nice 8)

EH_Rob

MacAndCheese wrote:

To be honest the forks are unlikely to change (apart from being purple they're great forks!)
although I am tempted to send the frame back to orange and get it resprayed in "deep purple" like this one:

I guess they'll only charge you about 1300 for a respray so you might as well.

I actually quite like this, nice work.

DanDax1990

DIY fork re-spray?...

pesky_jones

DanDax1990 wrote:

DIY fork re-spray?...

Thats what I was thinking I don't think it would be that hard either. You could wait untill they need a service then do it all in one. Or you could just leave them purple if you like em purple!

junglist_matty

Nice bike.... BTW, it's a bike, don't waste your money respraying it FFS.... It'd be cheaper to buy brand new decent black forks and far more beneficial, especially considering your's are shitazocchi!

EH_Rob

junglist_matty wrote:

Nice bike.... BTW, it's a bike, don't waste your money respraying it FFS.... It'd be cheaper to buy brand new decent black forks and far more beneficial, especially considering your's are shitazocchi!

Marzocchi make good forks so I've got no idea what you're talking about.

Although I'm not familiar with these.

MacAndCheese

"Shitzocchi" someone clearly hasn't ridden their higher end forks for a while. These are the 2011 titanium sprung range topping RC3 55s that are generally considered pretty good, very plush fork with minimal servicing required.

Thewaylander

junglist_matty wrote:

Nice bike.... BTW, it's a bike, don't waste your money respraying it FFS.... It'd be cheaper to buy brand new decent black forks and far more beneficial, especially considering your's are shitazocchi!

In fact i'd say this fork is the best one in its class, And been lookng for them for my bike for ages at a decent price as they really don't get sold on and hold there value.

AlexJCook

I think it's really nice.

That Orange Deep Purple looks amazing in the flesh, but as has been pointed out, at the end of the day it's a bike!

It looks sick as it is, and no amount of colour changing/matching will make it better/faster/whatever.

Good work.

rockmonkeysc

The latest 55's & 888's are the best forks I have ridden, better than anything Rockshox or Fox are making. The 888 rc3 evo ti is absolutely brilliant, makes my Boxxer R2C2 feel a bit rubbish.

Biggus86

Like it bar the forks... good colour combo, then you notice the forks... no lol

Ashweee

Really like your alpine and if I'm honest quite like the purple forks!

cj11

You could spray the frame a hideous shade of yellow..........oh wait someones already done that.

cubedean

Sorry to pull this back up.

How do you find the wheels?