After a rocky start to 2024, Orange Bikes come back swinging

Orange Bikes' recent restructuring "ensures a promising future for British bike manufacturing in West Yorkshire for at least another 35 years".

Orange Bikes has ceased trading as administrators look for a quick sale of the business and its assets.

A look back at a classic bike check of Ben Cathro's 2009 225 prototype from the Mont-Sainte-Anne World Cup.

The filing occurred days after Orange announced the end of their factory race team.

Orange is pausing its factory race team next year.

The Phase EVO uses Bosch's new Performance Line SX motor, and is claimed to weigh only 43 pounds.

Before there were e-bikes, there was freeride.

Seven new bikes from day one of Eurobike.

Look, a blue Orange. The new Msisle is still made in the UK, but this time it's electric.

The Switch is a 160mm-travel, MX-wheeled mountain bike designed for 'just about anything'.

The latest chapter in Orange's story comes with the Stage 7 - a 29" wheeled, 170/165mm travel enduro race bike that's built for the world's fastest courses.

In case you weren't already hyped on spring riding...

Orange's acronym for the compartment is SAFE, for Store Accessories, Food & Equipment.

Orange Factory Racing holds its team camp in classic British conditions at Cwmcarn, South Wales.

Evolved over decades of World Cup experience, the 279 is Orange's mixed-wheel racer.

Becky Cook and Christo Gallagher are joining Tom Wilson for 2023.

Orange Factory Racing looks back on a flat out season of racing.

After two years with Orange Factory Racing and four on Orange bikes Lachlan Blair will be riding something new in 2023.

As a kid, James Anderson was diagnosed with Monoplegia, an acute form of Cerebral Palsy, as well as Dyspraxia and Dyslexia.

Orange Factory Racing crew head south from Whistler, Canada into the Green Mountain State of Vermont.

Fast and fun.

The team will see British riders Lachlan Blair, Joe Connell and Tom Wilson continue on the Factory Racing program with a focus on the Enduro World Series.

Come with us for a walk through the 2022 Sea Otter festival to check out some new bikes and components.

It's time to throw away your single pivot jokes.

As the World Cup season kicks off in Lourdes, Orange has revealed its new mixed wheel downhill bike.

Guy gets a one-off, custom frame from Orange.

Does a team spec'd Phase MX mean that Orange will be entering the world of eMTB racing?

Lachlan Blair, Joe Connell and Tom Wilson spent 2021 all over the world, between the tape and in the mix.

Barnes moves on from Orange.

Fergus Lamb rips on his local trails.

The Stage 6 Evo has 29" wheels, 140mm of rear travel, and Orange's signature single pivot design.

Orange Factory Racing's Joe Conell takes a lap of his home trails.

Orange Factory Racing tackle the slippery Tweed Valley trails for the final EWS race of 2021.

Sampling some of the loosest dust around.

Straight off the finish line of Crans Montana, the guys hit the road for Round 8 of the World Enduro Series in sunny, dusty Finale.

After a big weekend in Loudenvielle, France the Orange Factory Racing guys jetted straight on to Crans Montana in Valais, Switzerland for round 7 of the Enduro World Series.

Orange's new bike opens up trails that are normally inaccessible to adaptive bike riders.

Lorraine is back on the trails 6 years after her career-ending brain injury

For 2022 Orange has launched the Alpine EVO with a slacker head angle, longer reach and 10mm less travel than the Alpine 6.

Lachlan, Joe and Tom will be racing the full Enduro World Series and taking on the world on their Orange bikes.

Take a closer look at Joe Connell's single pivot, dual crown EWS race bike.

Bikes are among the cargo on the Ever Given.

Following in the footsteps of Steve Peat, Greg Minnaar, Missy Giove, and the Hannah siblings, Orange's long lineage in racing continues in 2021.

All the latest tech from September.

Mixed wheel size hardtail kicks on Orange's new hardtail.

The Five and Stage get an Evo makeover.

A British rider on a British bike winning on British soil.

All the numbers for the Specialized Stumpjumper EVO, Marin Mount Vision, GT Force, Orange Stage 6, and the Santa Cruz Megatower gathered in one place.

New gear from Thule, Madison, Lazer, Park Tool and more.

Orange has released a limited edition Hazzard Racing version of the Alpine 6 and the Switch 6.

5 sweet builds on display at the House Show.

The former Managing Director of Orange Bikes explained his decision in a Facebook post.

Joe builds up his Orange Five in the Hazzard Racing dreamy build spec.

A new 29/27.5" bike based on a couple of Orange classics.

Hazzard Contractors specialize in serpent control, slop extraction and skid mark prevention.

The Stage 6's suspension design is about as simple as it gets, but that doesn't mean it can't hold its own against more complicated designs.

We went to visit Joe in Fort William to get a closer look at his new Orange Alpine 6 and discover how he's set it up after a winter of trying various prototypes.

Is Orange's longest travel single-pivot 29er good enough to mix it up with the new-wave of Horst Link, VPP and multi-link bikes? We find out.

Proudly made in the UK - a short-travel 29er trailbike with an attitude

It’s that time of year again, change around time. The magazines are bombarded with press releases as the big guys churn out their latest bikes. Whether the changes are important is sometimes difficult to say, but we’ve seen so many clever acronyms, buzz words and so much sales jargon it’s easy to gloss over genuine improvements and reject the hype. So when MBR and Orange wanted to take a different approach I was completely up for seeing how things could be done. MBR’s plan was simple, get the scoop on one of the UK’s most popular trail bikes, and Orange got some video to throw at the internet massif. Yes, they’ll be doing the whole press release deal come today’s official ‘launch’, but if pictures say a thousand words, video…well, video rocks...

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A first look at the 2011 bike ft Danny Macaskill, Joe Barnes and Alan Muldoon

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