2025 Rise LT upper axle bolt loosening

[cookie70]

Hi everyone,

I've done about 400km on my new rise LT and have had to tighten the upper axle bolt twice (4nm), it gets play and creaks like the old one. I had really hoped Orbea had fixed the very annoying problems of the earlier generations axles coming loose.

Any thoughts on best solution? The blue paper does not say to use loctite but I'm thinking this might be required?

 

[shjin]

Hi everyone,

I've done about 400km on my new rise LT and have had to tighten the upper axle bolt twice (4nm), it gets play and creaks like the old one. I had really hoped Orbea had fixed the very annoying problems of the earlier generations axles coming loose.

Any thoughts on best solution? The blue paper does not say to use loctite but I'm thinking this might be required?

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Have you checked the pinch bolt? There is pinch bolt that you need to tighten at 10N.m.

 

[cookie70]

I pulled it all apart and redid as per the manual plus using loctite. no troubles after another 600k

 

[b33k34]

Interesting. I found a bit of side by side movement in both of ours the other day (noticed when lifting bike over a gate) but hadn't had any noise. Now I've got a bit of 'cracking/creak' under pedalling but no movement so I'm thinking of stripping it down, cleaning and reassembling. Just hit 1000km on mine/800 on ms b's

 

[shjin]

Interesting. I found a bit of side by side movement in both of ours the other day (noticed when lifting bike over a gate) but hadn't had any noise. Now I've got a bit of 'cracking/creak' under pedalling but no movement so I'm thinking of stripping it down, cleaning and reassembling. Just hit 1000km on mine/800 on ms b's

The side to side and a small play when you lift the bike is most likely due to the yoke bolt loosening. It is hard to reach, so you will have to use L shape hex key to tighten.

 

[b33k34]

It's definitely the main linkage pivot that gets the creak. My bike made a really loud noise coming off a drop at the weekend and I feared I'd broken the main pivot axle (did that on the original Rise) but took it out (it's a new design that looks like it might be beefed up vs the design on the older Rise) and it was fine.

Worked my way through the other linkages at the same time - the inner yokes weren't loose, the shock linkage pivot, when I undid the pinch bolt, found the 4nm bearing load bolt loose (but I wonder if it always is when you undo the pinch bolt). I added some thread lock which the manual doesn't specify, but can't see it will make any difference - it's the pinch bolt thats holding the thing tight, not the bolt thats' at 4nm.

Incidentally - the Yoke assembly looks a pain. Even if I had the bike in pieces I couldn't get my small torque wrench and bit in the gap between the sides of the yoke. Has anyone worked out how to do this or can suggest a suitable tool?