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Thanks, you're very welcome! There's quite an archive of info on here and I remembered finding details for a similar Orange a while back. Enjoy the hunting and hope the build goes well. Maybe post some pics of it as it progresses?
 
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Here's my C16 stealth e-bike

250w brushless hub motor
36v 10a/h battery

Cost about £300 to build (plus the original bike)
 

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Sinnerman has asked me to post this here as it's very relevant to the history of Orange, I'm sure he will be along soon to chime in :D

I've stripped out some of the build stuff as you can find that on the build thread and the Tushingham Resource Pool.

An update on the Early frame Tushingham as promised in the Dec 2018 BOTM thread.t

I ended up with a couple of Tushinghams last year and they were to be 2018 projects the plan was to rebuild the early frame as a factory/shop spec. with Exage Mountain and the late frame with something else :cool:
Parts collection for the late frame is ongoing and will be completed shortly....hopefully.

The sourcing of Exage Mountain has been frustrating, some parts appear to be biodegradable - brake levers/shrouds, Cranks have the longevity of a firework and good condition rear mechs are mythical....so I changed tack (Pun almost intended) and decided to move up a groupset that was still year correct and could have easily been retrofitted, so Deore MT60 was then sourced for the build.

Start point of the early frame, it bounced around various owners here before I ended up with it.


The colours, here-be the first problem...., the original sales brochure states Fluorescent Orange (Standard colour with the RAL code 2005) and Diamond White, the frames are actually Pearlised White, my frame builder/painter who has been in the business 30+ years said Diamond White and Pearlised White are different colours, so I had the frames painted in the colours that they were originally...identified from parts of the frames that were uncovered when removing components and still showing unfaded original paint - Standard Fluorescent Orange RAL 2005, and Pearlised White (Code temporarily misplaced :facepalm: ) The same Pearlised White used on Muddyfox Courier's.

Early and late frames.

General frame views.



Ignore the block paving abortion, they are coming back to sort that out! :facepalm:

Chainstay mounted U-Brake, late frames the U-brake is mounted on the Seat-stays.


The rear mech cable actually passes through the U-brake lug on its travels.

Nice heavy lugs..



Panaracer Ibex

Early Tushingham decal style



On with the 'B52' now......

If anyone has a genuine 'Muddy-Orange' they would like to part with, I'm after one....

Andy
 
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Wasn’t there a theory doing the rounds that statistically every one of us would drink a molecule of water at some stage in our lifetime that had been drunk by Julius Caesar or did I make that up?

Anyway, in another weird small world kind of thing I went looking at 94 and 95 Orange colour schemes when I got offered what we thought was an early C16. Turns out it wasn’t and it was a late first time round Clockwork.

This one in fact.

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Seems to have been through a number of hands and shockingly treated with some sort of rattle can treatment but now it’s back from the powder coaters (the magnificent LSN in Cas Vegas) and has all new decals (including a black Stif one that is rather stealthy what with it being on black :facepalm: ).

Thinking of putting reversed Quadras on it with SE brakes front and back as a tribute to the many forms of bodge-jobbery we used to get up to...

Will update in due course (including when I face plant because the front brakes are too keen!)
 

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So having got it finished, the silly boy was too impatient to wait and lacquer over the new decals and had to take it out in the mud and the rain...

Now looking for new top tube decals :LOL:

On the positive side it was a lovely ride...

Best of British? 94 clockwork hanging with a 91 Dynatech hoping somebody will notice them...
 

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