Orbea Terra M31e Team 1X

Reinvigorated with an appetite for speed and chunky tires, the 2023 Orbea Terra M31E Team is a gravel bike with an endurance-oriented geometry to enable hours and hours of backroad pedaling. With SRAM Rival eTap AXS electronic shifting and Orbea’s monocoque carbon construction, you’ll be whirring through gears while your fellow mechanical riders panic to shift for that unexpected blind hill.

Tire clearance is of the utmost importance in the ever-expanding world of gravel riding. This puppy rolls out of the shop with 700 X 38 Vittoria Terreno Dry CX-Gravel G2.0 tires. You’ll have the ability to run 700c x 45mm or 650b x 50mm tires at maximum. Additionally, the Terra has the ability to run up to a compact 2x road crank if you desire a greater range in gearing. As a bonus, the 2023 Orbea Terra can roll 30mm tires and play the part of an endurance oriented road bicycle while sporting thru axles for increased reliability.

To provide more room for growth and experimentation, Orbea outfits the Terra with a standard 27.2mm seatpost which sports routing ability for a dropper post. Sometimes you have to get down to get down.

One of our favorite parts of the new Terra: a downtube storage area they call the downtube LOCKR. Basically, underneath the downtube water bottle mount is a trap door that opens to two sealed bags. They say this gives you space for a tube, tools, CO2 cartridges, or other necessities. We imagine this would be a great place for a windbreaker on those variable-weather rides. Either way, it keeps extra gear down low on the bike and less susceptible to the elements.