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Looks like Orange have finally done it.  After a lot of speculation they have finally added a 29er to their ever growing product line. This takes the guise of a 120mm full suspension bike called “Gyro”.

Orange have stuck with their traditional aluminium box section tubing and their single pivot which has always been a winner with most of their other full suspension bikes.

It’s good to see a Maxle swingarm and a Fox RP23 Kashima shock as standard. This Maxle swingarm is a £100 upgrade for the Five and really helps to stiffen up that Swingarm. Especially for a 29er.

It’s also good to see Orange using less of it’s own branded Products. The only Orange Branded component that I can see is the handlebars. Everything else that you see is from recognizable manufacturers; Race Face Stem and seatpost and Cane Creek headset are a welcome sight.

The rest of the bike is made up of Fox 32 Float 29er 120mm RLC Kashima suspension forks, Avid Elixir 5 disk brakes, Race Face Evolve XC 10sp crankset and a mixture of Deore SLX/XT for the Shifters and Mechs.

This looks like quite a good setup for this bike. However, this really does push the price of the bike high.  At a price of £2,799.99 it’s certainly not cheap, but when you consider that the forks and shocks alone would cost you nearly £1000 and the frame would probably have cost at least £1400. It’s actually not bad value.

Visit Orange Bikes for more info at http://www.Orangebikes.com

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