[EDIT - I sold this some time ago but leaving it up if of interest!]
Hi everyone, recently joined the forum here - pleased to find so many like-minded people nostalgic for the old days, thought I would share a few pics and words.
Like many here I guess, I came from BMX - converted Grifter in ‘79, then a Diamond Back Silver Streak, PK Ripper etc - my last, a Haro Freestyler is still in the garden - fully built and rusting away - and as I left it in the mid 80’s. BMX was our life then - endless summers, ROM skate park every Sunday - very happy days.
MTB’s followed, first was a crackle finish Muddy Fox Courier Comp in ‘89 closely followed by probably my favourite bike ever - an ‘89 Stumpjumper in pink/green with Deore DX components(and 150mm stem...) Great times then, riding lots, the inaugural Cheddar Challenge, Eastway Summer series etc. Revolution MTB’s in Romford was the centre of bike exotica for us - Seeing the very first Pace, Cannondales and Konas. Revolution started out as a Windsurfing business and they even had an old Tushingham (pre Orange). Anyway, a succession of bikes were bought and sold but never anything too exotic - an Orange Prestige in pink/white with early Campag Centaur MTB components and matching pink Pace RC30s - gorgeous; a Stumpjumper front suspension and SJ Comp with the lovely made in Japan Prestige frame, Proflex (850 perhaps? - grey and green), a custom ‘RFD’ (rumour was these were built by Fuquay?) with the very flexy Mavic MTB cranks, an Alpinestars Cro-Mega DX (still owned by a friend), a Giant carbon fibre with the just launched XTR, Marin Eldridge etc. I have built up a few newer frames since - a couple of Gary Fisher Sugars, another Stumpy M4 and a Stumpy FSR, a Cannondale and a Cove Handjob but all have gone and the one bike I have always kept and never changed much is the Clockwork I built up in ‘92.
Still with most of it’s original parts (and period stickers...) as pictured below: These were the last Orange frames before they updated the decals and style quite a lot - for the ‘92 Clockworks they also increased the mud clearance a great deal over earlier Oranges but kept with the 1â€
Hi everyone, recently joined the forum here - pleased to find so many like-minded people nostalgic for the old days, thought I would share a few pics and words.
Like many here I guess, I came from BMX - converted Grifter in ‘79, then a Diamond Back Silver Streak, PK Ripper etc - my last, a Haro Freestyler is still in the garden - fully built and rusting away - and as I left it in the mid 80’s. BMX was our life then - endless summers, ROM skate park every Sunday - very happy days.
MTB’s followed, first was a crackle finish Muddy Fox Courier Comp in ‘89 closely followed by probably my favourite bike ever - an ‘89 Stumpjumper in pink/green with Deore DX components(and 150mm stem...) Great times then, riding lots, the inaugural Cheddar Challenge, Eastway Summer series etc. Revolution MTB’s in Romford was the centre of bike exotica for us - Seeing the very first Pace, Cannondales and Konas. Revolution started out as a Windsurfing business and they even had an old Tushingham (pre Orange). Anyway, a succession of bikes were bought and sold but never anything too exotic - an Orange Prestige in pink/white with early Campag Centaur MTB components and matching pink Pace RC30s - gorgeous; a Stumpjumper front suspension and SJ Comp with the lovely made in Japan Prestige frame, Proflex (850 perhaps? - grey and green), a custom ‘RFD’ (rumour was these were built by Fuquay?) with the very flexy Mavic MTB cranks, an Alpinestars Cro-Mega DX (still owned by a friend), a Giant carbon fibre with the just launched XTR, Marin Eldridge etc. I have built up a few newer frames since - a couple of Gary Fisher Sugars, another Stumpy M4 and a Stumpy FSR, a Cannondale and a Cove Handjob but all have gone and the one bike I have always kept and never changed much is the Clockwork I built up in ‘92.
Still with most of it’s original parts (and period stickers...) as pictured below: These were the last Orange frames before they updated the decals and style quite a lot - for the ‘92 Clockworks they also increased the mud clearance a great deal over earlier Oranges but kept with the 1â€