NeBD. Incoming Rise #2

[Weeksy]

Orbea Rise H30 2023 - Metallic Mulberry/Black

Buy Now - Orbea Rise H30 2023 - Metallic Mulberry/Black from MTB Monster

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Well kinda, but now we've got 2.

The lad has been using ours a fair bit to maximise laps and ride time, so we've got the wife's Liv Embolden e+ for sale next week which will fund some of it.

It seems I get this one and the wife and boy get the orange one as he hates the purple.

 

[Julie_X1]

Love that Mulberry on the Rise.

Congrats!

 

[Tonybro]

Love the colour too. I'd go as far to say I prefer it to the blue/coal combo I have and that's nice.

Love my M10...

 

[Shjay]

Looks like that comes with the EP6 instead of EP8. Glad my old M20 came with EP8, all the parts I was swapping over anyway

 

[Weeksy]

Ep8rs

 

[Julie_X1]

Love the colour too. I'd go as far to say I prefer it to the blue/coal combo I have and that's nice.

Love my M10...

That blue and coal color is awesome too. They knocked it out of the park with their aluminum line colors.

 

[Weeksy]

Looks like that comes with the EP6 instead of EP8. Glad my old M20 came with EP8, all the parts I was swapping over anyway

Oh, interesting.. it DOES seem to come with the EP6..

Can anyone tell me the differences ? Or more importantly if the EP6 is an 'avoid' type motor ?

I know a lot of people are Shimano haters in the motor, so try and keep that side out of it, it's more a EP6 comparison with the EP8RS i'd like please.

 

[Mteam]

comparison here

We rode the new Shimano EP6 and EP8 (801) ebike motors

We’ve had a couple of encounters with the new EP8 motor already. We rode it on a Yeti, and it was so quiet. Despite riding on frozen and noisy surfaces, we were quite confident this motor was silent. Watch the video of our ride on the new...

www.emtbforums.com

and here

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/shimano-ep600-ep801

Looks like functionally they are the same, but the ep6 is heavier, heavier casing , gears etc

 

[Weeksy]

First proper ride on the bike and apart from the horrible saddle, it's all sweet.
Couple of clicks faster on the rebound than I first set it. But that's about all I changed. I'll probably add 10psi to the shock and slow rebound 1 click as I think it's sitting a big low.
The Code R work sweetly and the motor is deffo quieter on this revision compared to the orange one.

I may rotate the bars forward fractionally but that's about it.

Well, that and removing the Burgtec Cloud saddle and either swap it for the one on the orange bike, or one out of spares.

IMG_20240409_153159 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

 

[Tony4wd]

You need one of every colour really - they all look pretty good.

 

[Weeksy]

catching the morning sunshine
IMG_20240410_082328 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20240410_083648 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

trails are 99% lovely at the moment, properly nice. Weirdly at times the purple one doesn't feel like it rolls as fast as the orange... i'm going to have to take the orange one out in a back to back test as i've checked all the power settings but weirdly, it's just not quite rolling in the same way. It could be the sticky conditions as some trails are a bit draggy.

 

[Entonox]

Under warranty I went from an EP8-RS to an EP801-RS on a Rise H30 (I received a new frame and full gen2 setup).

My initial impressions (which could be just my imagination) was that the EP801 felt quite different from the EP8.

More overrun in Trail setting
More torque at low cadence
Less power at very high cadence

I know Shimano updated the power and profile of the EP801 but don't know how that translates to use in the Rise.

I don't have access to another Rise EP8 to compare back to back so I'm interested in your findings and thoughts of the EP6.

 

[Weeksy]

Mine feels like the cut-out even when you stop pedalling for a second is harder than the EP8RS, so if you stop pedalling you get more resistance on the EP6. Although like i say, i need to back-to-back them both a little bit. Which i may get a chance to do tomorrow. It's deffo quieter though that's for sure.
I have just stuck a Continental Kryptotal DH super soft on which i've recently taken of my lads DH bike as it had a slash in it from Dyfi, not a terrible one, but one that i wouldn't trust for National DH races for sure. So it may as well go on mine

The orange bike is running Magic Marys front and rear.

 

[Entonox]

My cutout feels the same.
The motor isn't as noisy - and the new frame has zero creaks so that's a bonus

Great bikes

 

[irie]

trails are 99% lovely at the moment, properly nice. Weirdly at times the purple one doesn't feel like it rolls as fast as the orange ...

Was also surprised today how quickly the trails have dried out.

And were both bikes running on the same tyres at the same pressures?

 

[Weeksy]

Was also surprised today how quickly the trails have dried out.

And were both bikes running on the same tyres at the same pressures?

Pressure, give or take a psi

Tyres, completely different

 

[Mteam]

It'll be due to the supersoft compound tyres on the bike that's slower rolling.

Assuming there's no brake drag, or issue with the wheels, or other faults.

 

[Weeksy]

The Supersoft only went on today, it had the Rekon maxterra that was on the front as standard, running on the back. Along with the Hillbilly on the front.
The Conti Kryptotal actually rolls better than you'd expect

 

[Weeksy]

Afternoon ride of trailsy fun

Hit a few of the regular trails, the onto the dad jumps in Frilsham before heading for a beer.
Sitting having a beer the heavens opened with hail, rain, wind... WTF it was glorious !!!!
Called Mrs Weeksy to come get me in the van and stayed for another 2 pints

IMG_20240416_155925 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20240416_164628 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr