Wheel Sizes:
- Sizes S–M: 29’’ front / 27.5’’ rear
- Sizes L–XL: 29’’
Suspension Travel:
- Frame: 165 mm
- Fork: 170 mm (180 mm compatible)
Geometry Highlights:
- Sizes offered: S, M, L, XL
- Headtube angle: 64°
- Reach (size Large): 480 mm
- Chainstay length: 438 mm
Frame Material: Carbon fiber
Price:
- Complete bikes: $5,899 to $8,999 USD
- Frame only: $3,799 USD including RockShox Vivid Ultimate rear shock
Wheel Sizes: 29’’ front / 27.5’’ rear
Suspension Travel:
- Frame: 165 mm
- Fork: 170 mm (180 mm compatible)
Geometry Highlights:
- Sizes offered: S, M, L, XL
- Headtube angle: 64°
- Reach (size Large): 480 mm
- Chainstay length: 438 mm
Drive System Highlights:
- Motor: Bosch Performance Line SX
- Torque: 55 Nm
- Power: 600 W
- Battery: Bosch PowerTube 400 (400 Wh)
- Display: Bosch System Controller
- Remote: Bosch Mini Remote
Frame Material: Carbon fiber
Price: Complete bikes from $8,999 to $10,999 USD
Intro
We enjoyed Revel’s Rail 29 as a versatile longer-travel option, but there was still room in Revel’s lineup for a full-on Enduro bike. The release of their all-new Ritual is perhaps unsurprising, then, and it’s definitely “more” in just about every sense compared to the Rail 29, with 10 mm more travel out back and a significantly slacker head tube angle, among other details.
The more surprising thing here, though, is that Revel is also debuting their first eMTB — the ReRun — mating a mid-power Bosch SX motor and 400 Wh battery to Revel’s favored CBF suspension design, in what looks to be an electrified Ritual in many respects. Let’s have a look at these two new rigs.
The Frames
Ritual
The Ritual is Revel’s most aggressive Enduro bike to date. Revel’s bikes share a similar aesthetic for the most part, and though it shares the same 165 mm of rear travel with their discontinued 27.5’’ Rail, the new Ritual sports a slacker head tube angle and a longer reach compared to the now-discontinued Rail 29.
Like Revel’s other bikes, the Ritual is available in carbon fiber only and comes with their familiar CBF suspension layout, but it does get a few new touches. The pivot design has been revisited to place all bearings in the links rather than in the frame, spacing the bearings wider for increased stiffness. That move should make pivot bearing replacement easier, too. Revel has also joined the in-frame storage club with the Ritual. Revel also includes bottle bosses on the access hatch, along with an accessory mount under the top tube for whatever the in-frame storage can’t quite fit.
The Ritual shows up in a mixed wheel configuration (29’’ front / 27.5’’ rear) for the Small and Medium frames, while the Large and XL roll on 29’’ wheels on both ends. Revel says that these wheel sizes have been chosen specifically for the rider heights served by each size, and there’s no provision to deviate from those stock setups. While you could technically run a smaller 27.5’’ wheel on the Large and XL, there’s no flip chip or link to compensate for the inevitable geometry changes, and Revel says that doing so would run afoul of their warranty terms.
On a final note, the Ritual manages to be fairly light for a big-travel Enduro bike. The Large frame hits a claimed weight of 8.49 lbs / 3.85 kg, including the shock, rear axle, UDH hanger, and seat clamp, and the high-end Summit build comes in at a respectable 33.75 lbs / 15.30 kg (also size Large).
ReRun
The ReRun’s frame strikes the same familiar Revel aesthetic, but the chunkier downtube and bottom bracket area give away the inclusion of a battery and motor. Like the Ritual, the ReRun is carbon only and gets the same new hardware design with the bearings in the links rather than the frame itself. The inclusion of the battery does mean that the ReRun doesn’t have in-frame storage, but it keeps bottle mounts along with the accessory mount under the top tube.
We’ll get into the details of the Drive System just below, but the ReRun is designed as a Lightweight eMTB. That means a lighter but less powerful motor along with a smaller battery, with the goal of keeping the bike’s feel closer to that of a non-motorized one in terms of its handling. We don’t have a frame weight for the ReRun (it’s only available as a complete), but Revel claims a 44.65 lb / 20.25 kg complete weight for the Summit build in a size Large.
Drive System
Bosch’s lightweight SX motor serves as the ReRun’s drive unit, mated to a 400 Wh battery. That puts the ReRun in the Lightweight eMTB category, with the SX motor cranking out a maximum of 55 Nm of torque (compared to 85 Nm in most full-power motors). Batteries are the largest source of weight on most bikes, and the 400 Wh unit from Bosch helps to keep the ReRun’s weight down, though the trade off there is the amount of range on a single charge.
Fit & Geometry
Ritual
In keeping with its Enduro intentions, the Ritual gets more aggressive geometry than we’ve seen from Revel in the past. The head tube angle is 64°, which seems to have emerged as a sweet spot for Enduro bikes, and the reach on a Large is a fairly typical 480 mm. The Large’s stack measurement isn’t particularly high at 635 mm, largely thanks to a stubby 104 mm headtube. The effective top tube length clocks in at 627 mm, with a 77° effective seat tube angle (70.2° actual seat tube angle).
The Ritual also follows Revel’s new Ratio Fit sizing philosophy, which now includes different chainstay lengths for each size in the lineup. The gaps are pretty small, though, at just a few mm between each size — the Large’s chainstays are still on the shorter side at 438 mm.
Full geometry for the Ritual is in the chart below:
ReRun
The ReRun’s geometry is very similar to the Ritual’s, starting with their shared 64° head tube angle. Using a size Large as reference, reach is also the same between the two at 480 mm, as are the 635 mm stack and 627 mm effective top tube. Though the effective seat tube angle is the same at 77°, the actual seat tube angle on the ReRun is a touch steeper than the Ritual’s at 71.5°. The chainstay length grows slightly over the Ritual despite all sizes running mixed wheels, with the Large’s measuring 442 mm.
Full geometry for the ReRun is below:
The Builds
Ritual
Revel is offering three builds for the Ritual, with both the Basecamp and Treeline builds based around SRAM’s new mechanical Transmission groupsets. The Basecamp build gets a RockShox Super Deluxe Select+ rear shock while the two higher-end builds jump to a Vivid, but all builds get a RockShox Zeb fork and SRAM Maven brakes with 200 mm rotors. Continental supplies the tires, with the Kryptotal Fr Enduro Soft up front and Kryptotal Re Enduro Soft at the rear. Those are mated to DT Swiss E1900 wheels on the Basecamp build, while Crank Brothers Synthesis wheels come on the Treeline and Summit builds — those are alloy on the Treeline build, while the Summit gets the fancier Enduro Carbon version.
The full build details are as follows:
- Drivetrain: SRAM Eagle 70 Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Bronze (200 mm Centerline rotors)
- Fork: RockShox Zeb Select (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Super Deluxe Select+
- Wheels: DT Swiss E1900
- Dropper post: Crank Brothers Highline 7 (S: 125 mm, M: 150 mm, L: 170 mm, XL: 200 mm)
- Drivetrain: SRAM Eagle 90 Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver (200 mm Centerline rotors)
- Fork: RockShox Zeb Select+ (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Vivid Select+
- Wheels: Crank Brothers Synthesis Enduro V2 Alloy
- Dropper post: Crank Brothers Highline 7 (S: 125 mm, M: 150 mm, L: 170 mm, XL: 200 mm)
- Drivetrain: SRAM XO Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver (200 mm Centerline rotors)
- Fork: RockShox Zeb Ultimate (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Vivid Ultimate
- Wheels: Crank Brothers Synthesis Enduro Carbon I9 1/1
- Dropper post: Bike Yoke Revive (S: 125 mm, M: 160 mm, L: 185 mm, XL: 213 mm)
A frame-only Ritual costs $3,799 and includes a RockShox Vivid Ultimate rear shock along with a Cane Creek 40 Series headset.
ReRun
The ReRun gets just two builds, but both are well-appointed, even if the starting price point is fairly high. The Treeline and Summit builds mirror most of what comes on the Ritual, meaning RockShox suspension (though the Treeline build gets a Super Deluxe shock rather than the Vivid found on the Ritual) and SRAM Transmission shifting. The wheels are again from Crank Brothers, as is the seatpost on the Treeline build, while the Summit gets a Bike Yoke Revive dropper. Crank Brothers again supplies wheels for both, with alloy ones on the Treeline build and carbon on the Summit. There’s no frame-only option on offer with the ReRun.
The full build details are as follows:
- Drivetrain: SRAM Eagle 90 Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver (200 mm Centerline rotors)
- Fork: RockShox Zeb Select+ (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Super Deluxe Select+
- Wheels: Crank Brothers Synthesis Enduro V2 Alloy
- Dropper post: Crank Brothers Highline 7 (S: 125 mm, M: 150 mm, L: 170 mm, XL: 200 mm)
- Drivetrain: SRAM XO Transmission
- Brakes: SRAM Maven Silver (200 mm HS2 rotors)
- Fork: RockShox Zeb Ultimate (170 mm)
- Shock: RockShox Vivid Ultimate
- Wheels: Crank Brothers Synthesis Enduro Carbon I9 1/1
- Dropper post: Bike Yoke Revive (S: 125 mm, M: 160 mm, L: 185 mm, XL: 213 mm)
Some Questions / Things We’re Curious About
(1) The Ritual is more aggressive in its intentions than the Rail 29, but does it manage to keep some of the all-rounder appeal that the Rail 29 had, or does it feel more game-on in its ambitions?
(2) The ReRun’s geometry is identical to the Ritual, but with the added weight of a motor and battery. How much different do the two feel on the trail?
Bottom Line (For Now)
The new Ritual and ReRun are milestones for Revel, both in their more aggressive intentions and in the ReRun’s entry as Revel’s first eMTB. A lot of the details look well-considered on paper, but it’s hard to infer too much without some trail time — and fortunately, we will have a Ritual headed our way for testing quite soon. We’ll be sure to share our impressions once we do.