NEW 2025 Orbea Rise LT | Full Power and Light Weight - Dissected #mtb

Orbea making an already great bike even better! Solid overview Loam Wolf!!

Orbea has problems in all of its strut-mount suspensions. Screws loosening or snapped, linkage misalignment, no stiffness, snapped, shattered or leaking shocks. Its common issues and orbea warranty is terrible. I bought an Orbea Rallon MyO with a Fox DHX2 shock in mullet setup a year ago. The DHX2 snapped on a mid-sized jump in Leogang, damaging the frame. This is a known issue with strut-mount/yoke suspension designs. Similarly appearing in other brands, specialized kenevo or commencal meta. The mullet link on the Rallon exceeds Fox's maximum allowed strut length, causing the problem. Despite four warranty claims on suspension, Orbea refused to honor the warranty on the frame after DHX2 snapped. Citing compliance with standards and DHX2 is accepted by Fox in rallon. Fox replaced the shock but not the frame. Orbea's warranty handling and suspension design are terrible. Full story with photo and orbea technical analysis on reddit. You can google it: "WARNING! Orbea Rallon, snapped shock, strut-mount issue, refused warranty"

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Why do all the manufacturers agree to make electric bicycles with non-removable batteries??? with a full-power engine it will be a sad range (((

Emtbs are taking over the industry

And again no weight in KG's like the channel promised to do several times. I guess this channel is purely focust on US viewers.

Nice Video! Does the ep801 have only full torque or even full peak-watt-power in RS+ mode? Because the former rs ep8 had „only“ 60nm and ~350 watts peak power (at least in series 😉)

These prices are ridiculous. You can buy whole cars. Lower the price and sell more bikes.

Headset cable routing, no thanks

Another video said max power was 500w and 85nm...you mentioned 600/85. Can you confirm we get full 600w of power?

Is it possible to convert this bike in a mullet ?

I’d be interested if they sold a frame only option.

No water bottle cages?

The bike is too expensive. Cannondale moterra SL is 2000$ (canadian) less with comparable specs/weight/battery. And the orbea have a slightly detuned motor (100w less than original ep801). Nice bike, but not great.

Cables through the headset?
THAT'S A HARD NO 😂

When the Rise was first released, it had features that other manufacturers' bikes lacked at the time and is why I bought one. Now that the industry has caught up, I see no compelling reason to buy a Rise at this point. And why would you buy an "LT" version when you can just get the Wild?

That assymetrical bar is a crime! Yuck!

Definitely one of the best looking and lighter e-mtb's. Would love to have one but the $10,000 +/- price is nuts. The bikes are evolving so fast my Levo SL is almost outdated.

hi, can you remove the battery now?

Da hat die Bikeindustrie sich mal wieder selbst übertroffen. Vor Jahren haben sie einen Motor verkauft (EP8). Dann haben sie den gleichen Motor gedrosselt und teurer verkauft (EP8 Rs).

Jetzt verkaufen sie wieder den alten Motor, aber dafür teurer, weil sie sagen: „Wir verkaufen euch den alten Motor, aber haben ihn für euch gedrosselt. Weil ihr den alten Motor in gedrosselter Form ja gar nicht haben wollt, könnt ihr den aber entdrosseln, damit ihr wieder den alten Motor fahren könnt (EP RS+). Da ihr jetzt aber quasi wieder den alten EP8 fahren könnt, nehmen wir einen ordentlichen Preisaufschlag.“

Habe ich das so richtig zusammengefasst?

Love riding those tracks 🤘🏻

The flip chip is genius. The 16kg bike is insane. But otherwise, a 4-5k bike is what needs to happen. The prices are insane when folks are cross shopping convergence in electric motorcycles at lower prices.

‘Interviews’ with marketing guys- is there more boring content?

WHERE is this filmed?? These knife ridge trails are rad! Oh, and the bike seems pretty cool too.

What about the weight????

ABSOLUTELY!

Have they addressed the shock yoke failures?

Buy the "old" orbea rise. Get the cascade link to make the rear 150 mm with the same shock . Air shaft for the fork. Go 160mm
Then remap the soft where to the normal ep8 software.

Then you got a beast of a bike .

Was that 40lb spec with the 630wh or 420wh battery installed?

Pls staaap manufacturers with that 2025 BS, automakers also started doing this yrs ago it's to create a sense of fomo on the newest and greatest, it's not Orbea's fault but all the marketing aholes who think this is sustainable with educated customers, especially now that so many people abandoned the sport, it was fun during the pandemic but it's dangerous and kinda hard to keep motivated when you live in the city and weather isn't favorable, so yeah the educated customers who are still there are not eating up that kind of BS. It shows in sales and comments or reviews

Ola! how much are you paid for this videopub?

I appreciate that the marketing manager for Orbea can speak design, engineering and understands the value of the considered features. Well done Orbea!

Where's that trail?

Looks like cables thru the headset. That's a HARD NO for me. NO RIDER IS ASKING FOR PLASTIC HEADSETS.
Straight seatpost yes.
Leave the cables outside . It's not going in the tour de France.