Revel Blog » Orange R8 http://www.reveloutdoors.co.uk/blog News and Comment from East of England Bike Shop, Revel Outdoors Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:34:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Winter bike http://www.reveloutdoors.co.uk/blog/2009/10/24/winter-bike/ http://www.reveloutdoors.co.uk/blog/2009/10/24/winter-bike/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:55:56 +0000 Jamie http://www.reveloutdoors.co.uk/blog/?p=107 This year’s winter bike began with an Orange R8 frame.  Why?  Because it’s steel (nice Reynolds 853 steel) so it’ll be more forgiving than aluminium, last forever, and require less maintenance than a full-suss.  I’ve just bodged it together with bits I had lying around – it’s only going to get abuse anyway.

Orange R8 winter bike

Orange R8 winter bike

I was pretty pleased to find an old (new) XT front mech for it. 

Mmmm... classic XT

Mmmm... classic XT

Now if I can just sort out the rest…

It’ll get it’s first thrashing in the forest tomorrow morning – and judging by current conditions, it’s going to be wet.

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