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*can’t afford

Bought an Orange Alpine 6 years ago and it’s been ridden hard and I’ve had some good times on it. My family/ job situation and disposable income levels have changed. Put simply, I can afford the trip costs, maintenance, Enduro/ races, uplifts etc, so I’ve slowly drifted out of biking. The cost of Orange bikes was prohibitively expensive too. As a reference point, when I was thinking of replacing the Orange which cost about £4k originally, its replacement would have been about £7k (maybe £5/£6 on discount from Orange). Considering I could have picked up a Ripmo AF for about £3k, I was left wondering why I’d buy an Orange Switch/Stage etc, even if they were a great bike? I think this lack of competitiveness is/ was the main issue aside from all the other economic and market factors. I hope Orange can survive, but let’s see?

@kingdick: You are a true dick then King.

I think he’s funny AF. 100% understand his twang.

Hopefully, this goes ahead, just for the opportunity of a Ratboy interview with subtitles for the Yanks :)

Who buys this stuff?

Blink and you’ll miss it.

Surely Redbull just need to have 3 more events like this and then there’s the Hardline World Cup Season. With Warner commentary, Jobs a good un.

Give me back my free Redbull replays please!

@mikekazimer: I can’t believe it doesn’t come with an inter grated beer bottle opener? What an R&D oversight.