Orbea Wild: First Ride and Pro Tips from Gully 

Your videos are top notch man, keep killing it I'll keep watching it!!!!!

Great design, looks futuristic! I appreciate how Orbea is always front running on innovation

Love the video! Glad u had fun making it as well!

You always have a wonderful informative videos on Rad bikes. Am a big fan of you guys. Keep up the great content. 🤟

The bad news is I still haven’t bought an ebike. The good news is amazing new e-bikes like this Wild keep coming out and giving me even better choices! Great vid as always! Thanks BE Bikes!! 🎉

Great video Conner - and you are an excellent student - nice work!

Great review..Lovely bike... One of the bikes in this video totally had me! in fact it s inspired my myO M10 custom which should arrive in a couple of weeks! Thanks!!

I just watched Gully's, round 2! 😆😆 Great video as always Connor.

This bike checks all boxes. Amazing how they integrated this power and range in that weight. Orbea covered it well: you want a light and capable all-mountain bike, get a Rise M. For most people though, I think the Wild is the choice. I still intend to keep my Rallon for long time, though :).

So jealous. Sounds like you had a great time! :)

Great content! Cheers!

Great video! Rad looking bike.

Thanks for the vid. Cool bike, it's great to see a Bosh cockpit that doesn't look like a spaceship. It's one of the reasons I never got a Bosh bike.

Great video.

Nice work!

Great video. I bought the LTD version with the 750 battery. I love the bike! I ride 5-6 days a week, I couldn't do that on my old mtb. I would love to get over to Spain for a few months and do some riding there. I'm on Vancouver Island. Cheers. Maybe we can get a ride in when I'm touring through SLC after riding Sedona and Moab this spring!

Love the Ibis bikes. I've had both AF's and the Ripley V4. I think after having ridden them all, I should be on the Ripmo. The Ripley is the best maybe trail bike until you start finding consistent DH or features where you find the end of the suspension too often. The Ripmo would fix that. HOWEVER. I Would buy an Orbea E bike before an Ibis! This is pretty cool! Also like to lightweight e bikes as they'll feel most like a bike I assume. I've only tried an off brand hub motor e-bike for 10 seconds on a street. It was novel and I could see how it'd be awesome on my climb heavy trails. Can't wait to try a real one some day.

Muy Bueno...!!!!....Excelente..lll...👍👍👍

Yup - thumbs up!

Great Video. Thanks a lot for your work. By the way: Please review the new Yeti lineup 😉

Hey there, always enjoy your reviews as they are unbiased towards any brand...what was the majority of your assistance settings and what percentage of the battery did you finish the ride with...am interested how thirsty the Race motor is?

Looks like a fun trip and it's awesome you guys got the invite... congrats! Cables through the headset is still a pig and no matter the color lipstick the marketing team applies, it still oinks. Question regarding motor assisted bikes, do airlines let you leave the battery installed or do you have to remove it from the bike?

Awesome bike! Do you think the Race motor would be too much and more difficult to handle for most riders? Also, did you experience any hand fatigue on the descents due to the stiffer frame? This bike is definetely added on my list! Waiting for the full review!

Great video! Are the mentioned GEO numbers with the 160 or 170 fork?

Ebikes are evolving soooo quickly !! By next year you won’t be able to tell them apart from acoustic bikes.

Very nice video Conner :-) but can tell me how do you compare Orbeas suspension vs Santa Cruz Heckler ??

I think Orbea is killing it at the moment. This looks like a nice bike. Call me vane, but I love the looks. If I had the money (I don't) I would probably replace my Rise with this, and then getting one of the new TQ or Fasua 60 bikes for a trail bike. I like my Rise but the Shimano rattle drives me mad..

Wahoo. This is the 1st none ugly Bosch integration. Congrat Orbea 👏👏👏 This bike looks a game changer. How do you feel it vs Altitude / Instinct ?

Cool bike and video!! How do you compare to the Transition Repeater?

What a Nice bike and exzellent Review! Considering to get me a Wild Myself i Have a Little trouble figuring out which size will suit me Best? I‘m 185cm and the orbea- website tells me M/L and even XL would fit?! How tall are you, riding an xl size? Cheers, Daniel

How tall are you? i´m 1,86 cm and i have an orbea rise in XL, but the wild xl as 5 cm more than between axles, make me a little reluctant, everything else is similar to the rise XL. But will 5m between axles be too much?! and will it show on the trails? Wild's L is smaller in everything, reach, top tube etc.

Best bike ever. The 38"s are a deal breaker.

I would have loved to see some direct comparison to the 22 model - what was improved / changed?

I know a bunch of new bikes just came out such as the 2 new yeti's but would you ever consider doing any fat bike reviews?

As you went for the XL could i ask how tall you are? Thank you.

I was particularly interested in this particular video because I bought the Orbea Wild H20 two months ago after reading /watching rave reviews / videos on RU-vid, the last bike I bought after RU-vid endorsement was the entry model Specialized Turbo Levo which I loved (2019) - got stolen! My concern is that the Ebike brands are soliciting paid reviews of their top, most expensive models from the popular RU-vid channels, tellingly these paid reviews all come out at the same time, literally. There is a big problem with this platform - the reviews profusely embellish the super expensive bikes (some of which may be true of course), however, ordinary joe like me are much more likely to buy the entry level bikes in the hope that they ride very similar to the top models. EMTB - ordinary joe/jane - middle aged with kids, short on time, relatively new to or returned to biking, investing oversized sum to feed his/her hobby. None of the top earning channels review the entry level bikes, nor do they actually say anything negative because of the conflict of interest. Hence, it is not clear, who is this bike for? The beginner, or the pro downhill enduro ace? We hear far too many numbers - so many millimetres or angles this and that (chain stay, BB, reach etc.) and not enough about how they ride and whether these bikes are value for money? Hence, the RU-vid channels are complicit in letting the industry get away with hastily thrown together lower end bikes that are seriously flawed, and still demand thousands of dollars/pounds/euros! My view after 2 month ownership is a degree of disappointment. The H20 is a monster truck, way too heavy, I did not expect that given that the top product is 20.8Kg! This is a major problem for intermediate/ early biker. The sheer weight detracts from being able to jump, turn, develop skill, and the poor fork/suspension platform can only described as dull and lacklustre. The internal battery and the ridiculous complicated headset with internal cables is just nuts. Importantly, something you did not point out - this is a front heavy bike, much more noticeable in my size small bike with big 750 battery taking up the whole length of the down tube. It is difficult to convince this bike to jump (more speed, more hop) and then control the tendency of front end dipping. Why oh why do I have to spend several thousand of hard earned cash to bring it up to speed? Should I really even try to bring the weight down - not possible. The result is that 2 months down the line, I am desperately trying to sell the bike and buy a Specialized - the market, as it is, I can't even get half price for a 2 month old bike. I do not believe the Orbea Wild 2023 Alloy models are value for money - period. It turns out, all the R&D went in to developing the carbon race winning models. There is a unhealthy collusion between industry and channels/social platforms that promote these bikes - it makes it impossible to get an honest view of products that are more expensive than the cars we drive.

I'm just curious, why it took half a decade !! for Orbea (other brands too, however new Wild is 2 years behind Specialized Turbo Levo gen3 !) to create ebike with decent geometry ??? (comparing to my analog bike from 2018, which is quite similar). Is it because ebikes were targeting (were designed for) sunday warriors before and not for racing/professionals/aggressive riders ? and now, when ebikes started to be more popular among fast riders, it's time to make them more aggressive ? Controls still looks a bit crappy.

Ibis folks are looking at the integration of the same system on the Wild and must be absolutely kicking themselves.

Which did you prefer this or the Oso ?

Orbea...the Pagani of bikes

You had me up to the integrated cables and dropping the motor for the battery 👎🏻🙄

Sorry! Headset cables 👎 Otherwise, a pretty nice bike. I will continue to pedal my non-powered version, a 21’ Rallon.

Lost me when u said you have to pull motor .👎👎👎👎

Awesome bikes yet they put crap headsets in their top tier builds ( Acros ) and their paint needs a clear coat over the color. It flakes off too easily. Oh and that headset cable routing trend… Mildly inconvenient to remove the battery?? Still an awesome bike but come on..

I am 100% against e-bikes and won't even watch this video despite the fact that you are my favorite MTB channel. Nevertheless, I do have a question. The main thing keeping me away from buying a real, (non-electric) Orbea mountain bike is that their asymmetrical designs completely turn me off. So, my question is this, did they mention any redesigns for their Occam or even the Rallon that will be bilaterally symmetrical? Or anything new coming maybe in the 120-130 rear travel range? Thanks, Conner. And sorry about my adversity to e-bikes, but I cannot help it, I think they are an abomination.

I had a chance to try a new emtb in China, amazing trails and we ate so much BBQ dog and some cat, it was a really great experience. Not so much for the dogs and cat I suppose.