Exclusive First Look: Orbea’s New Stealth Fighter Orca Race

Did anyone else notice how the front brakes are set a bit too high?

@Wyatt
whoa. that’s a pretty glaring oversight for a photo shoot.
looking at all the pics with the front brake showing, some have the pads hitting the rim, some dont. the series of three has a good shot of the fork dropouts, with the front hub not fully installed. so there ya go.
on another note, this is an article about a bike being offered in a new color?

Nice looking frame, I could care less about the components in the pics. Orbea must have wanted to get some PR to let people know they had more options than just the orange team model at the top end. I think it will look good with some deep rims like the new 404s with black logos, zipp bars & stem, and full sram red 22 drivetrain with a quarq. That would be as slick as you could get with an Orbea.

@James – Why would anyone put disc brakes on a road racing frame?

Jack: that rant is old and boring. You might infer that someone buying a bike like this DOES care about weight, and 60-80 grams of non-functional—some even say ride-altering—paint isn’t trivial when frame/fork combos are pushing 1kg.

And at any rate, it’s offered in another colorway, and if you don’t like the options, the staff at your LBS will fall all over itself to connect you with a custom painter to make that five figure sale.

Disc brakes for the win!!!!!!!!

Stealth??? Run out of every other way to describe yet another bike I’m all black, have we. Genius.

@ Dave: “A bike like this will not look as dated as a painted bike with decals/graphics which will show their age sooner”

“Stealth”, “murdered out”, black on black bikes will see an end soon enough, and at that point everyone will be looking at your bike and saying “man, that’ so 2010, waaaaaaaay outdated”

If you want a paint scheme that won’t be outdated, do some panels or something, a paint scheme that’s been popular for the better half of a century. Don’t try to make it sound like your black on black paint scheme won’t be outdated because it’s been oh-so-popular for the last 24 months.

@Brandon the brand knowledge guy – I just think it would fit better with the rest of their ad campaign to stick with the sram/zipp setup in the photos like they used on the other new frame. This combo overall looks… thin and shallow.

I’,m also glad there are no discs or thru axles, which are both overkill marketing gimmicks.