The punningly named Segment is Orange’s short travel 29er and it’s been around for a couple of years now, but there have been some subtle but important tweaks for 2017 to help turn it into an even more capable machine.
With 120mm up front and 110mm at the rear, you might well expect the Orange Segment to be a bike completely focused on big days in the saddle with a light bit of cross-country racing thrown in. However, if you know anything about Orange, you’ll know that it doesn’t really do bikes that sit neatly in an easy to categorise box and that’s how it is with the Segment.
The real giveaway is the chunky Maxxis rubber fitted to either end. Up front, there’s a fat 2.3” Minion DHF in a sticky 3C compound while out back there’s an equally chunky High Roller 2. Both get a tubeless ready and reinforced casing too, meaning the Segment sports some properly no-nonsense all-conditions aggressive rubber.
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Add in the sturdy chassis of a RockShox Pike RCT3 fork up front, some seriously powerful SRAM Guide R brakes and you should get the picture that this is a bike that’s not so much about riding XC trails but XXX rated ones.
Make it better, do it faster
While the outline of the frame will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with the old bike – and indeed any Orange bike ever – the single pivot monocoque aluminium chassis has seen quite a lot of tweaking.
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