An Orange origin story

[brocklanders023]

Here's the Clockwork I recently picked up. Looking forward to seeing the Vitamin T, especially if it's one of the early ones.

 

[2manyoranges]

Blimey is that one of the hyper-rare orange ORANGE bars?

 

[brocklanders023]

Yeah, not mint but right enough. This one is better.

 

[clockwork davo]

Surly not that rare I’ve got a couple of sets of Hot Rods in orange

 

[FluffyChicken]

I've got a set too, they're not exactly rare. I do have the RamRod also, but in silver

 

[2manyoranges]

Hmmm....I thought they were....I am not surprised that clockwork aficionados have some on here...but out there I think they are pretty rare?

 

[pw_pw_la]

You guys ever think they might be rare because you have them?

 

[FluffyChicken]

I'm not a clockwork fan.
I just have one, use them as a lever extender.
Pretty common on Oranges at the time, you see old bike crop up with them. (not so much the ram rods.).
Just clockworks are bikes people dump at the tip since they're old, 'cheap' at the time and a bit naff.
But they were only around for a few years and most bikes will have been dumped way before now.

 

[Bcxbcx]

A pile of parts.

Frame is manufactured in December '92, so I guess a '93 bike.
The serial starts with an A, so does that mean it was made by A-Pro? I've seen Lynskey and Sandvick mentioned as manufacturer's before.

The seat tube comes up as 26.6mm on my calipers, which also measures a 26.8mm controltech post as 26.5mm; so I'm probably going with that.
I'd seen 27.0 and 27.2mm mentioned before.
I tried a 27.2mm post and there was no chance of it fitting.

 

[brocklanders023]

Oooooooo, lovely, a proper Vitamin T! My Clockwork's are 26.8mm so there's a decent chance that's right but I had a shimmed ti USE post on mine so can't remember now.