Calling All Orange C16R Owners

Here's my Orange C16R I've finished restoring!

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Frame: 21" Orange C16R recently resprayed in metallic green
Forks: F7 (1" unthreaded)
Stem: Orange
Saddle: Orangegel
Handlebars: Orange Hotrod
Headset: Ritchey Fuzzy logic
Groupset: 9spd Shimano Deore XT M739 except...
Chainset: Shimano Deore XT M760 (because getting old chainrings got expensive and I rate Hollowtech ii highly)
Wheelset: Shimano Deore XT FM-M760 hubs on Mavic x517
Tyre: Panaracer Mach SS

Sadly having finished it, I realise this thing is a good size or two too small for me. So it's up for sale if anyone's interested.
 
Hi fellow Orange fans,

I’ve just pulled the trigger on what is (I hope!) a mid/late 90s Orange C16-R. I haven’t been able to find any images online of the same model with this exact paintwork. The spec looks very similar to that shown in the ā€˜97 catalogue, but it doesn’t specify in the catalogue what the alternative colourways were, and I can’t tell if the canti bridge had been done away with by that point.

It looks like there was a Slime Clockwork in ā€˜98 and I can see there’s another build thread with a similar-looking C16-R from ā€˜97 but no canti bridge and black decals (Thread '1997 Orange C16R, Slime Green' https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1997-orange-c16r-slime-green.413392/).

Anyone able to lend me a hand figuring out what I’ve just acquired?

Cheers!
 

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