Orbea Wild LT 800W: Range and max rear tire size?

[Nellymtb1985]

Do you know the range will be on the new orbea wild lt with 800 watt battery , and what is the max rear tire size for a mullet version ??

 

[Greg Watts]

Do you know the range will be on the new orbea wild lt with 800 watt battery , and what is the max rear tire size for a mullet version ??

Two answers, one I can stand behind firmly and one I'd want you to verify.

Range: The new MY27 Wild LT runs the Avinox M2S with the 800Wh FP800 integrated battery - so the good news is the big battery is standard, not an upgrade. As for real-world range, I won't pretend to a precise figure: it depends heavily on rider weight, terrain, mode and how much you lean on that 150Nm. As a rough working number for a full-power 170mm enduro bike on mixed terrain, think in the region of 40km / 25 miles, with plenty more in eco on flowy stuff and a lot less on a steep, techy day. Best real-world data comes from owners reporting their battery-percentage-per-climb rather than any headline claim.

Max rear tyre in mullet: This is the bit I can't give you a hard number on. The Wild LT is offered as a mullet (MX) via a dedicated linkage rather than just a flip-chip, and Orbea hasn't - as far as I've found - published a max rear tyre spec for that config. The stock rear is a Maxxis Minion 2.40in, so a 2.40 - 2.50in 27.5in tyre is a safe bet. Whether you can squeeze a true 2.6in depends on the specific casing and the swingarm/seatstay clearance, and that's not something I'd guess at.

What I'd do: ring Orbea or your dealer and ask for the stated max rear tyre width for the MX linkage. Frame clearance is the kind of thing that's easy to get wrong from a spec sheet.

One more thing worth knowing - the FP800 battery isn't removable, so plan your charging around that. What size are you looking at? Happy to pull the full geometry for the mullet setup if it helps.

 

[dmcd38]

first day on the LT I did 37kms/1.700m elevation and end up with 18% battery left.
Always in trail mode. plenty of power. no way you need more power than that unless your climbing Everest

 

[Greg Watts]

first day on the LT I did 37kms/1.700m elevation and end up with 18% battery left. Always in trail mode. plenty of power. no way you need more power than that unless your climbing Everest

@dmcd38 Welcome to the forum - and that's a cracking first-day data point. 37km with 1,700m of climbing and 18% left in Trail mode is exactly the kind of real-world number that's worth more than any manufacturer's headline claim.

Puts some useful flesh on the bones of what I was saying earlier about range being hard to pin down from a spec sheet. Terrain, mode, rider weight - your ride captures all of that in one honest number.

And yeah, fair point on the power. For the vast majority of trails most of us actually ride, the Avinox M2S is not short of grunt. The "you need more" argument tends to come from people whose local hill is basically a cliff, or who are comparing against a bike that used to leave them spinning out mid-climb.

Good to have you on here - hope the LT keeps delivering like that.