At Eurobike, UK-made alloy bike builder had two complete Avinox ebikes on display. One was their current 160mm travel Phase all-mountain mullet shredder. But the other was a reworking of their more burly long-travel e-enduro Patriot eMTB, only this time with a bit more travel and a shift to the powerful Avinox motor, too.
There was one more physical bike on display – a Clockwork Orange, or rather an orange Orange Clockwork, but this time for 32″ wheels on the trail hardtail. There were also tech drawings for two all-new 32″ XC & gravel prototypes – both dubbed Strange.
Seems fitting, right?
Orange eMTBs go Avinox in current Phase & future Patriot MX
We’ve long followed what the English bike designers and brutalist 6000-series alloy welders over at Orange Bikes have been crafting by hand in Halifax, UK.
This black & white fade Orange Phase is their first ebike to move to the new, powerful Avinox M2S 1500W x 150Nm ebike motor. But it certainly won’t be the last. Just keep scrolling for the next one. But, let’s take a closer look at this one, first…
Orange are welding just 25 of these limited-edition Phase Prestige eMTBs. They start with the stock Avinox-powered Phase, then get hand-painted in a black-to-white fade they are calling Smoke. Then, they get built up with a custom spec, based on Orange’s classic Factory build, but swapping in shiny purple ano Hope components to create something special.
The Orange Phase Prestige is available to pre-order now for £9600 / $12,700 / 11,200€ complete, with delivery slated for the middle of September.
Longer-travel Patriot MX is next to get an Avinox powertrain
The Patriot became an ebike back in 2023, but had been Bosch-powered ever since. That looks to change with this future Patriot MX project, also now sporting an Avinox M2S motor and that classic DJI/Avinox touchscreen controller in its top tube.
The Patriot was already a long-travel enduro eMTB, with 170/170mm travel and a mullet wheel setup.
But Orange’s new Patriot MX drawings with the new Avinox motor inside look to extend fork travel to 180mm. More motor power for getting you back up the hill after each run, so why not a bit more travel for the downhills, too.
As for geo update, the new Patriot MX Avinox looks like it gets a 1/2° slacker headtube, a 2° steeper seat angle, ever so slightly shorter chainstays, slightly shorter frame Reach, and improved standover at the same time.
No word just yet on how soon the Patriot will make the motor switch. But current Bosch-powered models are officially out-of-stock, suggesting it could be pretty soon.
A Clockwork Orange trail hardtail for 32″ wheels
As for big-wheeled hardtails, this unreleased Orange Clockwork Elite trail hardtail is the first we’ve seen in real life from the bikemaker designed for 32″ wheels.
The long & slack Clockwork was the original Orange hardtail, built to ride anything and everything. Orange makes it entirely in the UK, from custom butted 6061-T6 aluminium (aluminum!) tubes, with a bunch of machined elements and classic chunky welds. Typically designed around 27.5″ wheels and mated to a 130mm travel fork, we wouldn’t be surprised to see this new 32″ iteration on either 120mm or 130mm of fork travel.
No complete build yet, though. Although that’s not a huge surprise, as the Clockwork has always been an affordable alloy hardtail mountain bike. The current made-in-England 27.5″ bike’s retail price is just £1500. So, until production-level 32″ forks from the big suspension makers are available, it’ll be difficult to build one of these up to be trail-ready on a budget.
32″ Strange Orange prototypes for XC & Gravel
Aptly named Strange, Orange had a couple of drawings on hand for some more 32″ prototypes. One for classic cross-country riding and one for gravel.
Their easily adaptable, in-house alloy frame manufacturing seems well-suited to building speculative frames around new wheel sizes. So, again, not a huge surprise to see them working on 32″ prototypes.
As more 32″-specific components become available – namely carbon gravel forks, affordable MTB suspension forks, high-performance wheels, and more tire options besides only Maxxis offering true options – we’ll look forward to seeing Strange new Orange XC & Gravel 32ers.
