The Five and Stage get an Evo makeover.

With 20 years of history, the Orange Five is one of mountain biking's most storied platforms.

We take a closer look at the updates Orange have in store for two of their most iconic bikes.

It’s that time of year again, change around time. The magazines are bombarded with press releases as the big guys churn out their latest bikes. Whether the changes are important is sometimes difficult to say, but we’ve seen so many clever acronyms, buzz words and so much sales jargon it’s easy to gloss over genuine improvements and reject the hype. So when MBR and Orange wanted to take a different approach I was completely up for seeing how things could be done. MBR’s plan was simple, get the scoop on one of the UK’s most popular trail bikes, and Orange got some video to throw at the internet massif. Yes, they’ll be doing the whole press release deal come today’s official ‘launch’, but if pictures say a thousand words, video…well, video rocks...

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A first look at the 2011 bike ft Danny Macaskill, Joe Barnes and Alan Muldoon

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