Orange Formula
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I've pm'd you. For some reason the idea of putting the frame number directly onto an internet forum made me nervous although I've no idea why...michael@orange":3ns41ggw said:let me have the frame number, i can check with the owner of the one here and see how close it is, i'd think its one of those 5 though
JS1500
Senior Retro Guru
stevet1":1x7ys6m8 said:I've pm'd you. For some reason the idea of putting the frame number directly onto an internet forum made me nervous although I've no idea why...michael@orange":1x7ys6m8 said:let me have the frame number, i can check with the owner of the one here and see how close it is, i'd think its one of those 5 though
'Cos I might clone your bike to add a few quid to the value of mine!
mrkawasaki
Retrobike Rider
Plot Thickening?
Back to my increasingly odd 'Formula 753' - a reputable local NW bike shop that stocked Orange BITD, suggest that Orange may not have had the accreditation to weld up 753 tubesets in the early or mid Nineties - which, if true, may well mean my frame was made elsewhere... add that to the Clockwork faded paint scheme being outsourced... does that lead the complete bike to be manufactured at Bob Jacksons maybe???? They also recalled a female team Orange rider suffering a serious injury on an all aluminium road bike - perhaps the 'Dynamo' - featured in the '93/94 catalogue (in our very own archive!) -
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/mai ... 654b8d66a2
To this day I have never seen a 'Dynamo'... was it recalled perhaps??
Morse
Back to my increasingly odd 'Formula 753' - a reputable local NW bike shop that stocked Orange BITD, suggest that Orange may not have had the accreditation to weld up 753 tubesets in the early or mid Nineties - which, if true, may well mean my frame was made elsewhere... add that to the Clockwork faded paint scheme being outsourced... does that lead the complete bike to be manufactured at Bob Jacksons maybe???? They also recalled a female team Orange rider suffering a serious injury on an all aluminium road bike - perhaps the 'Dynamo' - featured in the '93/94 catalogue (in our very own archive!) -
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/mai ... 654b8d66a2
To this day I have never seen a 'Dynamo'... was it recalled perhaps??
Morse
mrkawasaki
Retrobike Rider
More Thoughts
Another LBS has suggested that my '753 Formula' could be a fake...!
Which would be a bit of a weird thing to do IMO - and if it is a fake - then where the hell did they get the 'Formula' decals from...
Hope Michael can solve this mystery when he returns from the far east....
Neil
Another LBS has suggested that my '753 Formula' could be a fake...!
Which would be a bit of a weird thing to do IMO - and if it is a fake - then where the hell did they get the 'Formula' decals from...
Hope Michael can solve this mystery when he returns from the far east....
Neil
my mistake t'was allegedly a dynamo
http://www.singletrackworld.co.uk/forum ... 9&t=505369
Like to add my name to the list of people after early clockwork graphics, Mine has had every set out at some point i think - sometimes at once , but id love to get it back to how it was when i bought it
http://www.singletrackworld.co.uk/forum ... 9&t=505369
Like to add my name to the list of people after early clockwork graphics, Mine has had every set out at some point i think - sometimes at once
, but id love to get it back to how it was when i bought it
