An enduro and downhill bike in one? Orbea pulls cover off new and mega adjustable Rallon, that comes in downhill and enduro flavours
Downduro, anyone? Already ridden to DH victory with the logos covered (before being unveiled on the podium), the latest off-road bike from Orbea is built to conquer both DH and enduro duties. Can the Rallon really do it all?
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Perhaps the biggest news of last weekend's Bielsko-Biala leg of the UCI Downhill World Cup is Tahnee Seagrave's win on a covered Orbea (which was later uncovered on the podium). While the new downhill bike made headlines and caught the attention of riders everywhere, it's now been unveiled as Orbea's new Rallon, and it's actually not just a downhill bike... because thanks to its huge amounts of adjustability, it's also the Basque brand's new enduro bike too.
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A downhill bike...
For 2025, the Rallon takes a very different shape as it steps more towards the gravity end of the spectrum. Importantly, it takes up both enduro and downhill duties, and that's only been made possible through a slew of adjustable componentry.
2025 orbea rallon dh.jpg, by Liam Mercer
Shared across the Rallon's DH and enduro configurations are head angle and chainstay length adjustments, with the former allowing +/- 0.75 degrees of adjustment and the latter the choice between a 442 and 450mm chainstay. However, the bike also gets an adjustable leverage rate made possible thanks to Orbea's GravityLink suspension system. This allows for the choice of 25% and 30% progressivity, allowing riders to best tweak the Rallon for the track they're riding.
This new suspension system has been crafted to place weight as low as possible in the frame to achieve a low centre of gravity for improved stability and agility. However, as seen on Martin Maes' motorless Wild as an experiment, the Rallon and the Gravity Link system provide riders with the ability to add weight to the bottom bracket. Bolted to the bottom of the bike, these weights come in 93g, 95g, and 395g, to bring further and purpose-built track-specific adjustments to the bike.
GRAVITY_LINK.png, by Liam Mercer
Of course, the Rallon is built around a carbon frame, and Orbea has tuned the carbon weave to bring compliance but without sacrificing strength. There's internal cable routing that's fully guided inside the frame, and there's a chainstay protector. The downhill Rallon is only available with a mullet wheelset. As expected of a downhill bike, it boasts 200mm travel at both ends.
As for geometry, a large Rallon DH gets a 63.7-degree head angle, a 450mm chainstay and a 474mm reach.
...and an enduro bike
In its enduro guise, the Rallon uses the very same frame as the downhill-going version, getting all of the adjustable goodness of its bigger travel range-mate. However, it employs 180mm of suspension up front combined with 170mm at the rear.
2025 orbea rallon enduro.jpg, by Liam Mercer
Speaking of the suspension, Orbea has aimed to deliver the most active suspension kinematic possible, so it should be super sensitive when it comes to small bumps. That's all in a bid to achieve traction and control on rough trails at high speeds. However, this is one of the first bikes to be 'optimised' to work with the rising crop of electronic shocks, like Fox's Live Valve Neo tech. So it can be a very active kinematic while relying on automatic compression adjustment to sort out pedal efficiency.
This build also features the Attitude Adjust system as found on the Rallon DH, so it offers 5% of adjustment in the shock progressivity, from 22.5% to 27.5% and there are high and low geometry settings which changes the head angle by half a degree and provides 7mm of bottom bracket drop adjustment.
2025 orbea rallon suspension.jpg, by Liam Mercer
Users of the Rallon enduro can also add weight to the bottom bracket, but only one 553g weight is available.
Understandably, the enduro Rallon's geometry does get tweaked. A large size gets a 64.25-degree head angle, a 478mm reach, a 442mm chainstay, and a 79.1-degree seat tube. But owing to the fact that the bike uses a mega-low standover for DH use, the bike can accommodate long, 240mm travel dropper posts with full insertion depth. To touch back on geometry, all of that is adjustable with an adjustable chainstay and head angle adjust, as well as a flip chip.
2025 orbea rallon door.jpg, by Liam Mercer
There's also downtube integrated storage and a multitool built into one of the linkage bolts.
The range
Orbea's new Rallon is available in four models, with the Rallon D LTD being the downhill model, whereas the Rallon E-LTD, Rallon E-Team, and Rallon E-10 being the enduro bikes.
The Rallon D LTD is kitted with all of the usual DH suspects, such as a Fox 40 Factory fork paired with a Float X2 Factory shock. There's Shimano's XTR brakes combined with a Shimano Saint drivetrain and Oquo MC32 Team wheels.
On the enduro bikes, expect Fox 38 Factory forks and Float X Factory shocks across the range, while only the top-end E-LTD gets Live Valve Neo. Shimano handles the braking and shifting across the lineup, whereas the top-end bike gets SRAM's XO drivetrain.
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