Orange is a bicycle manufacturer, based in Halifax

Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a minster town, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It has an urban area population of 82,056 in the 2001 Census. It is well-known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Halifax Piece...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

 in the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Orange produce a wide range of mountain bike

Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle created for off-road cycling. This activity includes traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,...

s, ranging from the full-suspension downhill 224 to the steel hardtail P7. Orange's original hardtail was the Clockwork, named after the film

A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...

. Orange-sponsored riders have held the downhill world cup championship in 2001 (Greg Minnaar

Greg Minnaar

Greg Minnaar is a South African World Champion mountain bike racer competing in downhill cycling. Greg first started to get noticed as a world class downhill racer at the age of 17, in 1999, racing select World Cups on a local shop team, aboard a Kona Stab Dee-Lux bike with a...

), 2002 and 2004 (Steve Peat

Steve Peat

Steve Peat , nicknamed "Sheffield Steel" or more commonly just plain "Peaty", is a professional downhill mountain biker who was born and lives in Chapeltown, Sheffield, England. Prior to his career as a professional downhill cyclist Peat was employed as a plumber by James Lamb...

), as well as the women's under 21 downhill world championship (Tracey Hannah in 2006). Entry and mid-level Orange bikes are built in Taiwan, while more expensive models are handbuilt in their Halifax factory. The Patriot is one of Orange's best selling models and was the best selling performance mountain bike in Britain for several years. Orange now have dealers in 26 countries worldwide.

The name 'Orange' is derived from all-round range.

List of current bikes

All-Mountain & Suspension Trail

• Five (AM, Pro, S, SE, Diva)
• ST4 (Pro, S, SE)

Downhill

• 224-evolution (Race, World Cup)

Freeride

• Alpine 160
• Blood

Hardtail

• Crush
• Diva
• G (2, 3, 4, 4s)
• P7
• R8 (Pro, S)

Jump

• Miii

List of previous bikes

All Mountain

• Five (Pro Hope, Pro XT)
• Sub 5
• Sub 3
• Patriot 66 (XCEL)
• UFO
• X1 (standard and pro (early full suspention bike made from steal))
• X2 (standard and pro (early full suspention bike made from aluminium))

Downhill

• 224 (standard, GBR)
• 223
• 222
• Mr O

Freeride

• 224 (DD)
• Big-T
• Patriot 66 (FR)

Hardtail

• Clockwork
• C16R
• Prestige
• Aluminium O
• O2
• Aluminium Elite
• E2
• E3
• E4
• E6
• EvO6
• EvO2
• Formula
• Gringo
• SubZero
• Vitamin T
• Vit T2

Jump

• Hitman
• MsIsle
• AirO

Road

• Roadie-O
• Dynamo