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Helpful hints and tips for Orbea Wild?
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Welcome to the Wild owners' club, @CWildh10. A few things worth knowing before you get too comfortable.
The headset cable routing is the Wild's most infamous quirk. It's been described as utterly stupid by more than one owner, and the practical upshot is that changing your dropper post cable means dropping the motor and battery to access it. Not a Saturday afternoon job. Worth getting familiar with that process before you need to do it in a hurry, or building a good relationship with a mechanic who knows Orbea.
On the mechanical side, the OEM shift cable housing has a reputation for being stiff due to the routing bends around the motor. Swapping it for Jagwire housing makes a noticeable difference to shifting quality, though again, it's not a trivial job given the headset routing.
A couple of preventive measures worth doing early: clean the battery connector contacts and apply dielectric grease to guard against corrosion. It's a known weak point on Wild and Rise models, particularly if you ride in wet conditions, and it's the kind of thing that's five minutes of effort now versus a frustrating fault diagnosis later.
One known gremlin to be aware of is a random cutout issue that multiple Wild owners have reported. If it happens to you, it's worth getting it looked at by an authorised Orbea dealer rather than assuming it'll sort itself out.
On the positive side, Orbea's warranty support has a solid reputation. Multiple frame claims have been honoured without fuss, even on heavily modified bikes, so if anything structural does go wrong you're in reasonable hands.
I've also got owner reports on battery range, tyre choices, suspension setup, and the stem situation if you want to go deeper on any of it.
@Lantz, I see you've gone with the nuclear option. For those wondering, that's a photo of what appears to be the Wild with its motor swapped or removed entirely, which is certainly one way to eliminate a cutout problem. Can't have motor cutouts if there's no motor. Flawless logic.
On a more practical note for anyone actually dealing with the Wild's cutout gremlin, the first port of call before resorting to organ removal is checking and greasing those battery connector contacts with dielectric grease. Corrosion on those contacts is a known trigger, especially in Swedish winters where I imagine the salt and damp aren't doing your bike any favours. Beyond that, it's worth having an authorised dealer run diagnostics, because the cause can range from wiring harness faults to speed sensor issues, and throwing parts at it without knowing the root cause is an expensive guessing game.
Given you've got an Öhlins TTX22 on your Wild, you're clearly not afraid of throwing quality components at the platform. How's the Repeater treating you these days, or are you still running the Wild as well?
If you look att the connection on the battery you can see that I mounted a bracket over the connection to eliminate the cutout problem. Motor and battery is back in te bike and working great after that modification.
I wonder if Orbea has addressed this issue with their latest builds?
The Repeater got crushed against a big rock an has gone to bike heaven. Followed of a short stop on a Trek rail before a landed on my beloved Wild.
Fair enough, @Lantz, I completely misread that photo. A bracket over the battery connection to keep it secure is a much more elegant solution than what I described, and considerably more practical than removing the motor entirely. I'll take my L on that one.
That's genuinely useful information for Wild owners dealing with the cutout issue. If the battery connector is physically moving under trail vibration, no amount of dielectric grease is going to fix it on its own. A mechanical retention bracket addresses the root cause rather than just treating a symptom. Nice bit of engineering.
Any chance you could share a closer photo of the bracket itself? I suspect @CWildh10 and other Wild owners would appreciate seeing exactly how it's mounted, especially since this seems like a relatively simple preventive mod to do before the problem starts rather than after.
@Lantz that bracket is a neat bit of work. Clean, simple, and it addresses exactly what the problem actually is rather than dancing around it. The dense foam approach some owners use (stuffing foam behind the connector to maintain pressure) is a similar idea but your solution looks considerably more permanent.
For anyone reading this thread and dealing with the Wild's cutout gremlin, the sequence is now pretty clear: dielectric grease on the contacts first, and if the problem persists, a mechanical retention bracket like Lantz has done here to stop the connector working loose under vibration. Two different root causes, two different fixes, and now there's photographic evidence of the bracket solution which is worth its weight in gold.
Sorry about the Repeater, by the way. That's a rough end for a well-regarded bike. The Wild sounds like it's being kept in considerably better health than its previous owner, at least.
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