The Orange bikes stand was well worth visiting at this year’s The Bike Place trade show. Not only did the British brand have a new bike on display, but it also showed the thoroughly revised Segment model and confirmed the return of its legendary P7 hardtail for 2016.
What’s the score with the Four?
The swingarm strongly resembles that of Orange's longer-travel Alpine 160
Anyone scanning can certainly be excused for thinking this is the current Five. It’s not, by the way – what you’re actually looking at is an all-new model, the Four. The Four plugs a short-travel, 650b sized gap in Orange’s range and by doing so slots itself nicely below the 140mm Five. Specifically, there’s 120mm of suspension at the rear and the Four has been optimised around a 130mm fork.
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Should you get a protractor out then you’d be confronted by a 67 degree head angle figure for the Four, that’s a single degree steeper than the longer travel Five, yet half a degree slacker than that of the 110mm Segment 29er. A 74-degree effective seat angle is shared across all three of these bikes.The Four also gets a (6mm) shorter swingarm than the Five and a bottom bracket that sits 1cm closer to the ground at 330mm - the same as the Segment 29er.
With 120mm of travel, the Orange Four is a touch steeper and lighter than the company's popular Five trail bike
A lighter, wider Segment
P7 makes a comeback
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