1993 Orange Prestige

[Cheshire1980]

Re: 1993 Orange Prestige

Smashing bikes those Prestige 93’s. Made for speed. Anyway really great bike that.

 

[jimo746]

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That's some saddle to bar drop there, I'm not surprised it feels low.
That's how a lot of XC race bikes were then though, head down arse up and a long reach to skinny bars.

 

[benjabbi]

Re: 1993 Orange Prestige

I have decided to give this another make over this time to see how much weight I can drop just because I've never done a retro weenie build! I'm starting from this, stupidly I didn't weigh it before I took it apart as I thought I had photos of it on the scale, I haven't :roll: but I think it was somewhere between 23 - 23.5lbs. Not heavy at all, but I'm wondering how light I can get it by shaving little bits off everything.

 

[benjabbi]

Re: 1993 Orange Prestige

First thing I looked at was the controls, M900 Rapidfires aren't light, so decided on Gripshift X-rays and some X-lite Chicken stix in blue, saved 134g. Changed the bars from some no name polished alloy to Titec titanium saved 46g

 

[jimo746]

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When you look in the magazines the weight difference between the Prestige and Clockwork frame sets was very little, but its surprising how much weight you can lose by component choice.
I built mine up with Gripshift X-Ray, Magura brakes, X-Lite Ti bars , rigid Pace fork and some DX mechs, Mavic MA40 rims on DX hubs, and it came in around 24.5lbs i think.
Wheels and tyres would be an obvious place to drop some weight.
It'll be interesting to see what weight you can get this down to though

 

[MR OX]

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Nice, I had a very well used one of these (it'd been well maintaned but had a hard life) I must say it still remains one of my favorite bikes.

 

[benjabbi]

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Thanks Jimo and MR OX, I'm looking forward to seeing how light it comes out. Wheels and tyres should save a big chunk, I'm waiting for the nipples to arrive then I'll get them built.

Next up were the mechs and cassette. XTR is pretty light already, but I wanted a short cage mech so I took the paint off an old Shimano 600 gave it a polish and added some blue bits.
27g saved.
For the front I used an Exage ES, polished with blue bolts, swapping from bottom pull to top pull gets rid of the roller and another 11g.
For the cassette, went from 12-32 m900 to 11-28 m737 with a later XTR alloy lock ring saving 77g.

 

[prezza]

Re: 1993 Orange Prestige

Enjoying this build and interesting to see what final weight will be. You’ve got me thinking I should do same with my aluminium elite!
Gonna weigh mine in again later

 

[benjabbi]

Re: 1993 Orange Prestige

Thanks Prezza, your Elite is a lovely bike!
Next on the list were the brakes, I have a choice between XTR m900 or Dia-compe 987 at the moment, I may look for something posher eventually (always wanted some Avid Tri-align cantis/Ultimate levers, but money says no currently ).
Anyway m900 came out at 166g front 165g rear and the 987s with ti/alloy fixing bolts were 163g fr 156 r saving a whole 12g looking at them XTR pads are huge compared to the Aztecs, must be heavier! So have ended up with M900 with the ti/alloy bolts and Aztec pads come out at 150g fr 148g r saving another 33g
Grips, I could get some super light foam grips but I don't like them so have stuck with ODI Attack just trimmed for the gripshift, another 11g saved It all adds up!

 

[benjabbi]

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Pedals, just swapping from m525 to m747 spds saved a whopping 107g! I knew the 525s weren't light but wasn't expecting 505g for the pair :shock: