Andi chats with Ralph Holleis of Huhn Bikes about his inspiration and skills that have lead him down the path of combining art with bike building.

Huhn is Chicken in German. Why chicken you might ask;

“Getting dirty is fun, chickens live in the dirt, jet they look very elegant!Chickens walk forward with their heads up high, while doing so they never loose focus.FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER!Last but not least chickens have the skill to fly for short distances, mountain bikes do the same!”RALF HOLLEIS

Meet the Moorhuhn, an utterly fantastic 3D printed Reynolds 953 stainless steel full suspension frame!

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Amanda and the cow. That’s all we are giving away at this point. You really need to listen to this episode to find out what the fipping heck she’s got herself into this week.

Andi tackles the trails on Orange’s latest creation, the short travel, progressively angled 2021 Orange Five Evo LE.

A few years ago I reviewed the Orange Four and I concluded that the short travel, single-pivot Orange was probably the bike most riders should be on. Its lightweight frame, decent geometry and progressive short travel made the Orange Four a playful bike in most trail situations, and even when the terrain became seriously technical and chunky the plucky little Orange dived right in.

The Orange Four is no longer part of the Orange line-up, but its spirit lives on in the all-new Orange Five Evo, a short travel suspension bike that can tackle way more than its fork length might suggest.

But to say that the new Orange Five Evo is just a new Orange Four wouldn’t be doing Halifax’s latest justice, after all, there’s a reason that the new bike is a Five.

2021 Orange Five Evo LE Video Review

2021 Orange Five Evo LE

The Five Evo makes up 50% of the new range of Evo bikes designed, tested and handmade in the UK. Also released today is the Stage Evo, a short travel 29er with new school geometry, but it’s the smaller wheeled Five Evo which blurs the lines between big travel bruisers and sorted short travel trail whippets.

Like all of Orange’s UK made full-suspension frames, the Five Evo starts life as a selection of alloy sheets which over time are folded, moulded and formed into a complex monocoque structure. Ok, so the single-pivot suspension is hardly complex, but the frame details are hardly simple either. Take a close look at the tubes on any modern Orange and you’ll see folds and curves that prove there’s nothing simple about the manufacture of these bikes.

In a recent conversation with Kelvin Lawton from Orange, I learned that it takes around four days to manufacture a single Orange frame. That’s the time it takes to turn flat alloy sheets into a frame that will handle the best off-road terrain on the planet.

Simple single pivot suspension.

At the heart of the Five Evo frame is the telltale Orange single-pivot suspension design. It’s a design that is constantly tweaked and changed and on the Evo, it has been tuned to offer progression and pop, but the quality of travel is more than enough to clean up any wrong line choices or misjudged landings.

The Evo Five sports just 130mm of rear-wheel travel, 15mm less than a standard Orange Five, and is designed around a 140mm travel fork whereas the Five is happy with a 150mm fork plugged into the head tube.

Look at those lines!

But while it might have less travel than the classic Five, the geometry of the Evo is next-gen. Reach on this size large frame is 485mm, the seat tube angle is 76 degrees, and the head angle is 64 degrees. In comparison, the reach of a large Five is 467mm, the head angle is 65 degrees and the seat tube is 74 degrees.

Now over the past few weeks, we’ve seen plenty of MY21 bikes released with longer and longer reach ...

Andi tackles the trails on Orange’s latest creation, the short travel, progressively angled 2021 Orange Five Evo LE. A few years ago I reviewed the Orange Four and I concluded...

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This week Hannah grills Amanda about her recent incident with a barbed wire fence before Andi chats to Chloe Taylor about her life as a pro racer under lockdown conditions. Did you know she’s only been riding mountain bikes for 3 years?

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This week the Singletrack podcast gang of Hannah, Chipps and Andi talk about the latest output from SRAM plus the weather. That’s then followed by a truly fascinating chat with Jamie Knight about being autistic and how that affects him as a mountain biker.

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Gee Atherton joins George and Jack in this week’s Making Up The Numbers Podcast.

Joining us on this episode of the podcast is 2 x World Champion & 2010 World Cup Overall Champion, Gee Atherton.

If you had an hour to ask Gee Atherton anything you wanted, what would you ask him? On the latest episode of the podcast we discussed everything from rally cars to crashing, Atherton Bikes to how long he intends to keep racing.

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Gee Atherton joins George and Jack in this week’s Making Up The Numbers Podcast.

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If you had an hour to ask Gee Atherton anything you wanted, what would you ask him? On the latest episode of the podcast we discussed everything from rally cars to crashing, Atherton Bikes to how long he intends to keep racing.

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This week Hannah leads the chat across the board starting with stars of the latest copy of Singletrack magazine, the Van Gals.

We’d encourage you to answer the Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland Survey to help shape the future of their work, and also build the evidence base that will help secure their future. There is some great information being gathered and produced by them that will be useful to trail advocates around the world – check out their website too. And of course, listen to the interview with Colena Cotter from DMBinS for more background on their activites.