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Light eMTBs aren’t just for ambitious trail riders and can suit tourers and everyday riders too. Orbea know this and take a price-conscious approach with the brand-new Rise H. We’ve already tested the new Orbea Rise H10 with its aluminium frame, 60 Nm torque and internal 540 Wh battery, and tell you what it’s capable of and who it’s for.

With the Orbea Rise, the Spanish brand demonstrated at the end of 2020 that they have the know-how to blur the boundaries between mountain bikes and eMTBs. The Orbea Rise M-Team impressed us with its excellent handling, outstanding ride, well-thought-out modular battery concept and successful motor integration. In the search for the best mountain bike of 2021, the Orbea Rise M-Team (read review here) even secured the Best Buy at our sister magazine ENDURO and proved that it can hold its own against analogue mountain bikes.

Now the Rise gets a sibling, the Orbea Rise H. Orbea’s idea: to meld the performance of the big carbon brother with a larger battery and to make the whole thing accessible to price-conscious customers, with the models in the new range available for between € 4,999 and € 6,799. Orbea rely on the same Shimano EP8 RS motor fitted to the carbon version of the Rise. The eMTB comes with 150/140 mm travel, 29″ wheels, an aluminium frame and has 540 Wh in the tank. That’s a full 180 Wh more than the carbon Rise. But does the larger battery and 20.26 kg weight for a size L still let it ride like a Light eMTB? We tested the top-end Orbea Rise H10 and tell you how it rides on the trail, as well as how you can get the most performance out of it with the MyO configurator.

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