Orange Clockwork Prototype

[elite504]

I'm just curious as to what happened to the Astra SRi !

 

[adyifauk]

Whatever, ....Looking forward to the first ride pics.

In other news I have a frame ready for powder coating but until now have been unable to settle on a colour. Now that I've seen yours it's going to be yellow all the way.

The first ride will be pretty brief, seeing the bike next to a modern mountain bike has made want a new one - so as a nod to the past I've ordered a Orange Clockwork Evo 29 for when the weather is crap. The wife was delighted...

 

[adyifauk]

Whatever, ....Looking forward to the first ride pics.

In other news I have a frame ready for powder coating but until now have been unable to settle on a colour. Now that I've seen yours it's going to be yellow all the way.

That's brilliant!!

Is yellow an unusual colour for Clockworks?

 

[adyifauk]

I'm just curious as to what happened to the Astra SRi !

I sold it to a local chap (in Elland), it took him a few hours to get it running and he's going to be running around in it as his daily driver.

I also have a 1988 Honda VFR that's been sat in the garage, I'll probably sell that to make space for my new mountain bike.

 

[markoc]

Interesting thread and a nice bike. Something doesn’t add up though.

My thoughts would be on it possibly being an orange employee, or associated person who had their frame resprayed at the factory. That colour features on later models though I can’t remember which one - from memory one of the aluminium ones.

Would fit with the newer kit, which I don’t think is limited to the rear mech. Would also fit with someone having a story that it is a “special” bike. If it was properly “special” then I’d have expected the frame to be stamped as such.

Pretty sure orange moved from a rear facing seatpost slot to front facing around 1997.

Either way it’s in lovely nick.

 

[brocklanders023]

Great thread! As has been, everything points to a 97 Clockwork, the first after dropping the c16 name. Could well be pre-production and that colour was standard on another frame around the time. Mech points to someone using it without your knowledge, busting the original and replacing it on the quiet.

 

[brocklanders023]

1998 Orange Catalogue

Sep 11, 2024

• john
• Orange Catalogues

Possibly a 98 actually. 97/8 for those deacal. See Gil_M on here for replacements.

 

[markoc]

1996 catalogue in the archive has that yellow on an E3 RS as one of the "Race Specials"

96/97 looks to be the breakpoint for changing rear facing to front facing slot.

96/7 frame that was knocking around painted up as a limited colour RS - put in a corner and then kitted out later and sold? From what I've read, it wasn't unusual to get a bit of a different build once in a while.

 

[Takingabreak]

 

[adyifauk]

Interesting thread and a nice bike. Something doesn’t add up though.

My thoughts would be on it possibly being an orange employee, or associated person who had their frame resprayed at the factory. That colour features on later models though I can’t remember which one - from memory one of the aluminium ones.

Would fit with the newer kit, which I don’t think is limited to the rear mech. Would also fit with someone having a story that it is a “special” bike. If it was properly “special” then I’d have expected the frame to be stamped as such.

Pretty sure orange moved from a rear facing seatpost slot to front facing around 1997.

Either way it’s in lovely nick.

You're not wrong on that markcoc, I cannot understand what's gone on with that rear mech. Daft thing is... I showed my wife these posts about it having a new rear mech fitted and her reply was 'Well they're wrong!' I said 'that's what I thought' but then explained I'd looked into it too and the mech does appear to be around 2004 and she said 'that's impossible, it's been locked in a garage since you moved down here'.

Not only was it locked in a garage, it had also been locked to the frame of my 1988 Honda VFR 750 (to make it harder to pinch) and I brought both the keys for my motorbike, my 1989 Astra SRI and the bike lock down south with me when I moved (in February 1999) because I didnt want to risk my mum chucking them in the bin.

I took these pictures when we gained access to the garage because I was undecided as to what do with the bike, so my original intention was to google the components etc.