First Look - The Orbea Occam LT

Hi, I'm Hannah from Singletrack World and I am here with the Orbea Ockham LT

You might be familiar with the original Orbea Ockham. This was a 140-140 trail bike

And the Orbea Ockham LT adds 10mm travel front and rear to make it into a trail bike with enduro capabilities

So the original Orbea Ockham has two pop brakes, a lighter trail casing and a tyre, and it has a Fox 34 fork

In contrast, the LT here has a Fox 36 at 150 travel

you get exo more durable casing and you get four-part brakes. If you the kind of rider that likes to ride trail most of the year but maybe goes and does an enduro race with their mates a couple of times in the summer then this could be the bike for you saving you from being overbiked the rest of the year but still giving you the capability to go out and do a few enduro races

Let's take a closer look at some of the details. Because the frame and linkages are the same for both Ockham and Ockham LT bikes, customers can build an LT from any Ockham on the Orbea website

Both the alloy and carbon frames share the same geometry and riders have the option to

personalise their bikes with the MyO customisation system which Orbea claims offers over 1 million combinations

There are options that cover both air and coil shocks. The moderately progressive suspension is supple and active with great traction and then ramps

up to control the inevitable bigger hits. The progressive curve at 22% means the bike works well with either an air or a coil shock

This Ockham LT M10 frame is a carbon monocoque construction a complex and painstaking process which results in this most sophisticated form That funky asymmetrical frame design doesn just look good Instead of using a shock tunnel the Ockham LT offsets the shock to the left side of the frame

allowing the right side support to be more central and more efficiently deal with the forces acting upon the front triangle

This solution enables Orbea to tune the stiffness of this high-stress area without adding unnecessary weight

Avoiding an interrupted seat tube also gives more space for dropper posts, improves access

to the shock controls and leaves room for a water bottle. The bike has fully internal cable routing using silicon plugs at the frame entry and

exit points and clever conduits linking the front and rear triangles so the cables and

hoses are fully protected. The Ockham LT uses a new two-part linkage design which gives greater rigidity and a lower chance

of something working loose. They've created a space in the linkage pivot axle

and filled it with a handy multi-tool, which is held securely in place with magnets

Orbe has updated their successful Concentric Boost II rear suspension assembly at the rear axle This new Concentric Boost II design has fewer parts and reduces weight

There are Enduro Max black oxide bearings throughout. The Orbea Ockham LT is first and foremost a trail bike, arguably making it more versatile

than a full-on Enduro bike. It's designed to have balanced geometry that will be fun on a

wide variety of trails, not just plummeting downhill at high speed. So if you enjoy going

out for an all day ride, but also racing your mates at the occasional enduro in the summer

then this could be the bike for you. If you want to find out more, head on over to singletrapworld.com

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