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Orbea Rallon: En aggressiv endurocykel.
Best All-Mountain & Enduro Bikes with 150-180 mm Travel
Orbea Rallon er en endurocykel designet til at tackle de mest krævende og tekniske stier. Med en lang vandring og et robust design er Rallon bygget til at klare store slag og udfordrende forhold. Hovedtræk. Robust og holdbar kulfiberramme; Fox Float DPX2 Factory affjedring med mm vandring. There is no doubt about it. We have entered an exciting age in the world of enduro bikes. The sport is growing exponentially with self-perpetuating momentum.
Technology available on bikes is more refined and capable than ever, which is leading to a boom in the expanse and quality of trails exploding all over the world, which fuels riders to go out and push these bikes to new limits, and opening the gates to new shredders entering the sport for the first time. Enduro racing has also become gnarlier and more competitive than ever, driving bike brands to go back to the drawing boards, constantly chasing better.
And this, you guessed it, feeds back into greater bikes and accessibility to the sport. And so the cycle continues. We live and breathe these machines and the places they can take us, and are absolutely buzzing to be a part of the industry at a time such as this. And with the demands required of modern-day enduro bikes and their riders, we find this is a particularly concentrated segment of innovation, with exciting new tech pouring in at an astonishing rate that we believe is truly making improvements in leaps and bounds to the bikes we ride, and the fun we can have on them.
While every bike in this list can descend with the best of them while still climbing to the beginning of the next trail or stage, each of them possesses unique design features and ride characteristics that set them apart from the competition, and one another. Highs: Race-ready geometry and spec, fantastic composure in the rough stuff, mullet compatibility via a 3-position flip-chip, well-placed frame armour. Lows: Frame storage hatch impractically small, the stiff 35mm bars transfer a bit of chatter up front.
Overhauled, stretched out and beefed up in all the right places, the all-new Giant Reign has entered with its best tyre forward — proving its race-winning potential already at the opening round of the Enduro World Cup in some seriously rowdy Aussie conditions. Although this bike was never made for XC courses, power transfer is surprisingly efficient when stomping on the pedals, and its Even with a climb switch on the rear shock, we predominantly left the bike in the fully open mode, serving up plenty of traction on loose and techy climbs.
This bike really comes into its own however the moment you bring gravity into the equation. With the flip-chip set to the low position, the On the flip side, the high setting raises the BB to provide greater clearance for technical climbs, which are aided by the nice and steep seat tube angle of nearly 78°. We did however find that in this high-BB setting, the bike felt quite tall and awkward to handle. This setting does also allow the party animals out there to drop in a All models also come with an adjustable long-stroke dropper post, which is a great feature by our books.
The burly frame protection is well placed and provides not only great protection, but a nice and quiet ride regardless of how teeth-chattering the trail is. The Reign SX model has also made a comeback, with this model sitting even further in the gnar-zone, and features a dual crown fork and coil shock for those that have no interest in pedalling up, and full interest in sending big. You can see all of the specs, prices and details of the full lineup in our first-look article.
The best enduro bike of 2024
To dive deeper into just why we think this bike deserves its place on the list of the latest and greatest, check out our full Giant Reign review. Highs: Modern enduro geometry, super playful suspension characteristics, mullet compatibility, mm dropper post, wide offering of models to suit most riders. Lows: Cramped in-frame storage, issues with dropper post on test bike, headset cable routing. Gracing our eyeballs since its launch in late is the completely redesigned Merida One-Sixty.
The aim of the game was to deliver one of the most playful, capable and versatile enduro bikes on the market. And gee-whiz, has Merida delivered.
From the very moment it was released, the One-Sixty struck us as an entirely different bike when placed next to its predecessor. And upon our first five minutes on the trail, we were able to confidently confirm that it too feels like an entirely new bike. The One-Sixty is right on the money with modern enduro bike geometry, employing a playful mix of longer, lower and slacker to result in a rig that is just as comfortable on backcountry epics as it is the enduro race stages — a statement few current bikes out there can boast.
The One-Sixty offers a few interesting changes between sizes. Firstly, sizes up to the medium come stocked with a The suspension receives a size-specific tune and making the leverage ratio more progressive the further up the sizing chart you move, providing greater support for heavier riders. When rocking the mullet configuration, the frame offers mm of rear travel, while opting for the 29er will reduce it to mm.
This ample rear squish paired with a mm fork —or mm if you want to go big — makes this bike feel just at home on full-blown downhill laps as it does on undulating adventure rides. The head angle sits at a relaxed 64° whereas the very steep 79° seat angle still provides a comfortable climbing position. Merida has now done away with the rearmost pivot on the bike, instead opting for a Flexstay rear triangle that the brand claims to boost stiffness, drops weight and creates a unique, lively ride characteristic.
We can confirm that this bike is particularly playful, popping off jumps and blasting through chunky terrain with an energetic feel. The bike feels incredibly agile on those particularly curvy trails when the smaller rear wheel is dropped in — a fact that is far less apparent when running the 29er option. The tradeoff here is the increase in high-speed stability and composure on technical climbs.
The great thing is, any new One-Sixty model in any size will be able to take either setup with the flip of a 2-position chip in the rear linkage. The One-Sixty is available in 5 different models spanning both alloy and carbon chassis, each boasting a solid assortment of tiered spec options.