Another Rise H10 with my personal impressions

[ZXR_Power]

Hi there, new to this forum I discovered many stuff considering Orbea‘s Rise.
This year I bought my first ebike. An Orbea Rise H10. I thought I should share my impressions of this bike with you. Maybe this is helpful for everyone who‘s thinking about purchasing a Rise.

Here it is. Size M.

A very nice bike. The weight is simply blown away once you‘re riding it. A very agile and handy bike. I love it on my home trails. So much fun and it‘s rolling really fast at 29“ wheels.
I modified some things immediately after purchasing the bike:

• Tubeless setup
• Minion DHF 2,5 at the front
• 203 Galfer rotor at the front
• Hope AM stem 50mm
• Renthal fatbar carbon riser bar
• Carbon spacers and modified Orbea holder for iPhone at the stem
• Granite stash tool in the steerer tube
• SQlab 611 active saddle
• Deore 6120 calipers modded with screws instead of splints
• Brake pads with cooling fins
• Mudhugger at the front
• Sicomtb fender at the rear
• Clear thick urethan protection tape on main frame parts
• Protection rubber pad at the lower linkage
• Hope F20 pedals

Here are some details:

So far, so good.
This bike provides a lot of fun. EP801RS rattles but I knew this before my purchase.

The bad news:
After 642km the bike makes a squeaking noise. I narrowed it down to the linkage parts. I guess next I will have to do an upper linkage service with Loctite 638. Very annoying for a brandnew bike!
My Santacruz Nomad needed a linkage service only once since 2016 and lot of riding. Over all the Rise is more difficult considering maintenance.

 

[ZXR_Power]

Update:
Now after 700km of riding the bike makes a noise with every pedal stroke. So annoying!

Just finished an upper linkage service like @Rod B. described in his very helpful article.
I found Orbea didn‘t use any Loctite for additional fixing the splines. But after assembly the squeaking noise did not disappear. I‘m pi**** of.

When I‘m standing behind the bike clamping the rear wheel with my legs and twisting the frame left and right holding it at the seat tube it makes a „knack“. Tried to to remove the dropper completely out of the frame. Still „knack“.
IMOP only left cause maybe the lower link. Buf still have to wait for tools. Otherwise I can‘t remove the chainring.
That sucks.
A bike which makes so much fun riding it. Brandnew and noisy. Drives me crazy.