Did Orange ever have press fit bottom brackets?

[unit3]

What say the Orange nerds?

 

[brocklanders023]

Re:

Not that I've ever seen and I've had most of the bikes up to 1995.

 

[Rampage]

Re: Re:

Not that I've ever seen and I've had most of the bikes up to 1995.

Lol, only on here you hear that!

 

[unit3]

Re:

Picture.

 

[dyna-ti]

Circlip pliers and take the clip out for starters. At least then you can see a little more :?

But i reckon its a bearing in there and maybe something home engineer conceived.


Am frequently wrong

 

[cce]

that chamfer on the shell suggests that at some stage it's been prepared for a mavic type threadless BB

 

[unit3]

Circlip pliers and take the clip out for starters. At least then you can see a little more :?

But i reckon its a bearing in there and maybe something home engineer conceived.


Am frequently wrong

The frame is at a friends at the moment, but he has taken the circlips and bearings out and reports it appears to look factory with no evidence of previous threads.

 

[Rampage]

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What model is it?

 

[unit3]

that chamfer on the shell suggests that at some stage it's been prepared for a mavic type threadless BB

The frame is at a friends at the moment, but from previous pictures it has a mavic outer ring, not sure what the cranks are yet.

There is also no identifiable frame number.

The plot thickens!

 

[unit3]

Re: Re:

What model is it?

Aluminium O, but from what we can work out it must be a 90/91? due to cable routing.