'92 Orange Clockwork (uncertain on year)

[albash82]

This was kicking around the warehouse at my old job for a long time. The old gaffer gave me it when he retired and I delivered all his "museum pieces" to him.
I stripped it down a few years back... Didn't get any pics beforehand, but it wasn't looking great tbh.
It's been stowed away up in the loft since. I started to clean up the drivetrain as I'm going to give the whole lot a good bit of spit and polish, then rebuild it as well as I can, with all the original kit the bike had with it.
Looks to be LX everything aside from DX STI units. Can't remember what the wheels were, but possibly DX hubs... They're up in the loft too.
I had a quick look at the '92 & '92 catalogues and deduce this to be '92.
Frame number isn't too clear, but may be A309A6637


Many projects to get on with, but hope to have it done for the incoming spring.

 

[albash82]

Oh, possibly has more in common with a pre '90 frame.... Maybe? Decals are similar to the below.

Withdrawn Thread '1988 Orange Clockwork, very rare!'

Jan 6, 2024

Hi all. I'm offering up my very original 1988 Orange Clockwork for sale. It's 17.5" c to t with a short top tube and long stem. The original owner told me it was one of the first 50 Orange bikes ever made and he'd bought it new at the back end of 1988 having been persuaded by the shop owner to check out the new brand he was stocking. He also knows Lester Noble which I thought was pretty cool!

As can be seen it is a different design to the usual 89's and has much more in common with the Muddy fox's of the time. Best guess it was made in the same factory before Orange shifted production and...

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[Bike Hoarder]

Sept '93 from the frame number.

 

[brocklanders023]

Nah, that's an 1989, March by the look of it? Point where the seat stay meets the seat tube is the give away. Looks decent btw, a nice project.

 

[Fam Allen]

This was kicking around the warehouse at my old job for a long time. The old gaffer gave me it when he retired and I delivered all his "museum pieces" to him.
I stripped it down a few years back... Didn't get any pics beforehand, but it wasn't looking great tbh.
It's been stowed away up in the loft since. I started to clean up the drivetrain as I'm going to give the whole lot a good bit of spit and polish, then rebuild it as well as I can, with all the original kit the bike had with it.
Looks to be LX everything aside from DX STI units. Can't remember what the wheels were, but possibly DX hubs... They're up in the loft too.
I had a quick look at the '92 & '92 catalogues and deduce this to be '92.
Frame number isn't too clear, but may be A309A6637
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Many projects to get on with, but hope to have it done for the incoming spring.

Look forward to following the build thread on this. On my list to find one in this sort of condition to clean up and build.

 

[albash82]

Nah, that's an 1989, March by the look of it? Point where the seat stay meets the seat tube is the give away. Looks decent btw, a nice project.

Yeah from what I'd seen, the decals weren't '91 or '92... From '93 they ditched the orange/white paint and went all bluey/purpley/silver by the looks of it, might have been '94 though.

 

[Bike Hoarder]

Thought the frame numbers were year then month? So, 3 - March, 09 - 89?

 

[Bike Hoarder]

 

[Bike Hoarder]

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So what date is my grey clockwork? Thought it was a July '92.