2 days out on the Rise this weekend. Both at Forest of Dean.
The Rise may be slightly lacking in ultimate punch compared to a big power motor, but the thing is brilliant. It flew up the hills, crushed the trails red, black, blue, more blue.... Just up and down many times without an issue.
As a bike that's being used mainly as an 'uplift van' replacement it's hard to beat in terms of how it rides. I'm not honestly sure what i'd change to improve the thing.
New bike day. The purple Orbea Rise.
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Re: New bike day. The purple Orbea Rise.
Epic epic ride yesterday. We were at Hopton and a mate came out to play. He's ot that experienced but he's a good rider and enthusiastic. His tactic is "if he can ride it, so can I" and just sits on my wheel.
Last time there I was on the Liv and it struggled in a couple of tight uphill bits, but the Orbea cruised it. I had to work a bit but it was proper enjoyable riding. It's a bloody awesome place is Hopton.
I'll be interested to see if he wants to take it again next weekend and ride on practice day.
Last time there I was on the Liv and it struggled in a couple of tight uphill bits, but the Orbea cruised it. I had to work a bit but it was proper enjoyable riding. It's a bloody awesome place is Hopton.
I'll be interested to see if he wants to take it again next weekend and ride on practice day.
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Re: New bike day. The purple Orbea Rise.
Jumped on the Rise today and noticed something.... WOW them there bars are WIDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEE
The trails were crap today as the overnight frost didn't really make it into proper frost so you just end up with a claggy layer on top, along with the horribly cold wind/conditions today... So i did a lot less than i'd planned.
But when i got back i measure the Trek Fuel which with grips on are just under 800mm. The Rise were 825.. ouch. So that's just under 15mm each side now trimmed off there. We'll see how that goes later for a test.
I'm just coming up to 900km on the bike now it seems, which is less use than i thought.
The trails were crap today as the overnight frost didn't really make it into proper frost so you just end up with a claggy layer on top, along with the horribly cold wind/conditions today... So i did a lot less than i'd planned.
But when i got back i measure the Trek Fuel which with grips on are just under 800mm. The Rise were 825.. ouch. So that's just under 15mm each side now trimmed off there. We'll see how that goes later for a test.
I'm just coming up to 900km on the bike now it seems, which is less use than i thought.
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Re: New bike day. The purple Orbea Rise.
With the boy riding the Fuel yesterday, which it's seems is now his Fuel lol. I was left with the Orbea to ride, not that that's a bad thing, it loves a bit of FoD. It was Shuttcastle and Dowies to start which was ace, then some steeps off Dowies to the road which scared me.
I then had the bright idea of heading through the woods and back to Center instead of down to old railway. As I'm riding along by the quarry I spot some trails, Jeepers they were steep. I walked down for a look and thought "nah" and laughed. But trail 2 looked better, so rolling down it, it go way steep, loose, tight, scary. I was out of my comfort zone and out of my depth. I'd like to think of I had a wingman I'd have hit it better, but it was still nuts lol.
I rode 75% of it anyway, which was 15% more than I wanted to lol.
IMG_20241214_102433 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
The Rise as always was awesome and I killed the battery to about 2% remaining by the time I did a few DH trails on way back.
Awesome fun.
I then had the bright idea of heading through the woods and back to Center instead of down to old railway. As I'm riding along by the quarry I spot some trails, Jeepers they were steep. I walked down for a look and thought "nah" and laughed. But trail 2 looked better, so rolling down it, it go way steep, loose, tight, scary. I was out of my comfort zone and out of my depth. I'd like to think of I had a wingman I'd have hit it better, but it was still nuts lol.
I rode 75% of it anyway, which was 15% more than I wanted to lol.
IMG_20241214_102433 by Steve Weeks, on FlickrThe Rise as always was awesome and I killed the battery to about 2% remaining by the time I did a few DH trails on way back.
Awesome fun.