Is the Orbea Rise still midpower? Although the bike ships in its software-restricted ‘RS’ mode (with a maximum of 60Nm of torque) the new Gen 2 version of the Shimano EP801 RS can be set to kick out the full 85Nm
RS mode is 56nM in boost, RS+ is 85.
What makes it mid-power is that the *power* is limited – you should get up just as steep a slope as your mates on full fat but you won’t do it quite so quickly. It’s not stuff that shows up in the Shimano app but I *think* the power settings in RS are 150/250/350w with the max power in RS+ maybe 500 (still below the full peak motor power of 600w). Probably makes very little difference on the flat or descending when you’re running up against the speed limit rather than motor output and it’s climbing that eats battery anyway.
I wonder how much of the cadence response is custom to Orbea and how much is just the ‘assist character’ settings in the RS/RS+ profiles. You can’t change the power limits without hacking it to put on standard firmware but you can create your own profiles and choose the assist character and max torque for eco/trail/boost.
Assist character can be set between 1 and 10. RS mode is 2/3/6, RS+ 3/5/9 (which are all a notch or two up from the same mode settings in the older Rise)
With the range extender attached the system does not give out the higher end of assist. Exact figures are elusive but it feels very much like it goes into the trad RS restricted mode
That’s exactly what it does. The piggy back battery can’t deliver the same current as the main battery so when it’s connected the bike runs in RS mode. (it runs the piggy back down first, once you’ve rinsed it you can disconnect it but you’d need to find some way of protection the port on it if you stashed the cable)./
The new GripX damper in the Fox 36 fork feels significantly less comfy than previous 36 dampers
That’s a shame – the old 36 Grip2 weren’t the plushest – this new gen was supposed to be better and the early reviews sounded promising.
