Coming up with negatives for the long-term review left me scratching my head; the suspension is composed, the balance is in order, and the construction is very tidy. The Rallon EN is a brutally fast descender that can still climb, traverse, and play well outside the normal confinements of what we think a long-travel bike is built for.
Sure, for a lot of riders or regions, 170mm is overkill. However, the Rallon EN is part of a dying breed: the do-it-all, long-travel bike. Maybe it’s a bit of personal nostalgia that brings me back to my old freeride ways when downhill bikes were horrible to pedal, and XC bikes fell apart if you looked at them the wrong way.
Whatever the case may be, it’s the wide scope of trails that the
Orbea Rallon EN can handle, as well as its cleanly executed, modular design, that lead us to crown it as the 2025 Pinkbike Mountain Bike of the Year.