Orange Mountain Bikes’ All Round Range
With its base in Halifax, Yorkshire, Orange mountain bikes are a well known English bike company. Despite the recession’s negative effect on the leisure industry, Orange mountain bikes have remained thanks to their commitment to creating the perfect bike for everyone and to ensuring the bike is quality. The recession has placed a bigger than usual emphasis on choosing British brands over foreign ones. From an environmental point of view, buying from within Britain is obviously better too.
As well as Orange mountain bikes’ long history, the brand is well known for its high profile sponsorship of big name riders Steve Peat and Greg Minaar. The Patriot was the model that really confirmed Orange mountain bikes’ status as fans’ favourite, because it was incredibly popular on British downhill courses. What followed it, the 222 was the bike that attracted international attention for the brand. And today the Orange Five is the bike for everyone. Today, orange mountain bikes can be bought in 26 different countries.
Orange mountain bikes was created by business partners Lester Noble and Steve Wade. Before the two joined forces, Noble was selling imported bikes from Taiwan with the name Tushingham bikes. However, thanks to Steve Wade’s previous engineering experience and the sheet metal business he owned, the pair were later able to manufacture for themselves. Although they did begin by importing bike parts and assembling them themselves.
Almost all of today’s Orange mountain bikes are assembled in the company’s Halifax factory. Entry level bikes are manufactured in the Far East though.
The company and Birmingham based Reynolds have a strong relationship: Reynolds was the first company to pioneer the use of hydro formed tubing. Most Orange mountain bikes are made using hydro formed tubing. Thanks to the technique used when making the tubes for the frames, Orange frames are very durable.
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