Sold Orange Vitamin T 1993

[Tomac23]

I’ve decided to sell my Orange Vitamin T. It’s a lovely bike but I am building my old race bike so I need to make room.

I believe the frame is a 1993. The frame number is A2124580. It might have been previously owned by a member on here. It looks similar to one posted on the Vit T owners thread.

18 inch frame
Top tube 22.5 c-c
Seat tube 18 c-c 19 c-t

1 1/8 head tube

Decals are really sharp apart from partial letter loss on top tube non drive side

Spec:
Orange Vitamin T frame Gen 1
Pace RC35 MXD forks
XTR M900 group set
Avid brakes with boosters
XTR/Mavic x517 wheel set
Panaracer tyres
Hope skewers
X-lite pro titanium handlebars
Pace quill stem
ODI grips
USE titanium seatpost
Flite titanium saddle
Pace chain rings
CQP 176mm cranks

£1,200 collection from SK12

Any questions please let me know

 

[baron von greenback]

Very nice mate

 

[Srv72]

Lovely

 

[bikeworkshop]

Amazingly similar to my 94 when I got it, jan95 over 30 years ago.
I paid 1200 back then
I'm still using it now,

Here's my 1994 orange vitamin t
- I bought this off the original owner in Jan 95.View attachment 816593
This photo predates digital, and almost the term "bikepacking". Taken somewhere in the middle of the Scottish Highlands may '95.

The original build spec, from Dave Baters Downend, Bristol (rip):

Stronglight 1" threaded taper roller bearing headset.
Control tech inch quill stem
Pace RC35 Forks, rear mounted brake bosses.
diacompe 987 cantis with a rocker on the fork brace
Pace bars, x-lite bar ends
Ritchey foam grips.

Ringle front hub,
white industries rear hub,
hope ti-dye spokes
mavic 230 tib rims.

I can't remember the original tyres, but didn't anyone spending money have the smoke/dart combo?

Topline crankset
with Pace 48/36/26 rings
XTR gears (inc cassette) and STIs
Selle Italia Flite Evo carbon saddle - 99g & totally unpadded.

Ringle ti stix qrs, black.
The seatpost was a USE copy made by someone's dad at rolls royce/aerospace out of (no doubt aircraft grade) ti and aluminium.
The whole bike was built to be light, like under 20 lb, and fairly British. I remember after a very muddy race I threw it into a cattle pond and it floated!
Funnily enough apart from the seatpost qr the post is the only original component!
Everything else broke, wore out or became obsolete

It came with a 1" threaded headset, but luckily Sandvik the manufacturer had seen the sense of using a larger diameter for the headtube, to avoid that horrible mitre where a larger tube is cut to fit around a smaller one, so I could move forward with fork technology, as long as it's about 80mm travel.
View attachment 816590

In its current guise it has custom shortened sids (tft) running 8speed xtr/xt with IS hydro tabs fitted by Vernon Barker about 20 years ago.
All other ongoing changes have been made at my place of work - Bikeworkshop in Bristol
(est 197)
mostly using second hand parts.
No cracks yet.
Still riding where I live in the wye valley and black mountains. Still fits me like a glove and rides like a magic carpet

O
fantastic bike.
The 1&1/8 head tube fit makes fork choice a lot easier, as well as looking better.

 

[Retrobike93]

I have owned it in the past. A lovely bike. GLWS

 

[7Speed]

That is really nice.

 

[nobby the sheep]

Wanted one of these for sooooooooo looooooong ,guess I’m going to have to keep wanting. GLWS

 

[bikeworkshop]

Think of it as an investment!
I've ridden 10s of 1000s of miles on mine, so a few pence a mile.
Probably been cheaper than walking. And it's still great

 

[Srv72]

Think of it as an investment!
I've ridden 10s of 1000s of miles on mine, so a few pence a mile.
Probably been cheaper than walking. And it's still great

100%, mine hasn’t quite so many miles but still worth every penny.

 

[Minifreak]

Was mine prior to the last 2/3 owners, a beautiful bike. New owner won’t be disappointed.

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