Bicycle brand Orbea has added a new proposal to its Urban & Active category; the Carpe. It aims to be a complete and ambitious range, designed to elevate every daily journey beyond simple transportation. According to Orbea, these bikes are performance-oriented for urban environments, with intelligent designs that enhance the riding experience and personalisation as one of their defining values.
Orbea’s Urban & Active range is supported by a set of shared technologies that accoring to the brand, strengthen its value proposition and enhance usability. An integrated battery reduces weight and improves the feeling of lightness, and an adjustable urban cockpit allows riders to fine-tune handlebar position. The Urban Equipment Ecosystem provides a modular system of front and rear racks. Finally, the integrated wrap-around lighting system improves both active and passive visibility in any situation.
New Carpe: A Natural Fit
Carpe is Orbea’s lightweight urban electric bike designed to fit seamlessly into the rhythm of city life. Its assistance delivers a natural riding experience, providing power exactly when needed. With its low weight and clever features such as folding pedals and a rotating handlebar that aligns with the bike, Carpe integrates easily into your daily routine.
Designed for Everyday Use
Carpe has been developed to move confidently through the urban environment. Its Urban Active Geometry offers a comfortable riding position that enhances control, agility and safety, whether for daily commutes or more relaxed rides.
The frame design absorbs unpleasant road vibrations through the patented Twin Glide Flex solution. Its exclusive double seat tube structure lowers the junction point with the frame, leaving more exposed tube to allow controlled, natural flex.
This behavior absorbs small vibrations and irregularities common in urban terrain, delivering a smooth and fluid ride feel. The carbon fork improves steering precision and overall ride quality.
Its low step-through design makes mounting and dismounting easy, reinforcing its practical and accessible character for all types of riders and everyday situations.
Orbea offers a complete urban equipment ecosystem that provides solutions for cargo needs. Multiple mounting points and dedicated accessories allow Carpe to be adapted to individual requirements.
Carpe also addresses off-the-bike movement with specific city-focused solutions. A rotating cockpit allows the handlebar to turn 90 degrees, and folding pedals reduce the overall width, making parking, transporting or storing the bike in tight spaces easier.
Urban Lightness
Lightness is one of Carpe’s core pillars. Its aluminum frame, with optimized tube thickness, reduces weight where it is not needed and reinforces the structure where it matters most.
The integrated battery system, featuring a closed downtube design, eliminates superfluous components and contributes to a simpler, lighter and stiffer overall structure. This weight reduction, combined with balanced geometry, results in a bike that is agile, easy to handle and comfortable both while riding and when walking alongside it.
Carpe is equipped with the Shimano EP6 motor, specifically configured for urban use. Its 85 Nm of torque support quick starts and steep climbs regardless of load, while efficient power management allows the use of a more compact battery without compromising range. The result is assistance that feels natural, quiet and minimally intrusive, with low friction even when pedaling above the assistance limit.
It offers more than sufficient range thanks to its integrated 420 Wh battery. This capacity is ideal for everyday city use and can be extended with an optional 252 Wh Range Extender.
Integrated Safety: Visible, Protected and Connected
Safety is part of Carpe’s DNA. The integrated wrap-around lighting system ensures constant visibility day and night, including from the sides. The high-performance front light, together with the rear light integrated into the seatpost, complies with StVZO regulations, ensuring maximum visibility without blinding other road users.
The battery is fully protected inside the frame against impacts and theft, and the system supports ABUS frame lock solutions as standard or optional depending on the model. In addition, Carpe includes a hidden compartment compatible with Bluetooth trackers, offering extra peace of mind when the bike is parked.
With Carpe, Orbea introduces a lightweight, safe and thoughtfully designed urban e-bike created to move naturally through the city and adapt to real life. It represents a new step in the evolution of the Urban & Active range, reinforcing the brand’s commitment to smarter, more efficient and people-focused urban mobility.
The Range: Different Expressions of the Same Vision
Urban & Active is built around a shared philosophy, expressed through models designed to respond to specific ways of moving.
The award-winning Diem represents Orbea’s most advanced vision of urban mobility. It is an electric bike conceived to make city riding a pleasure, combining integration with a distinctive aesthetic.
Muga expands the Urban & Active concept toward more versatile use. It is an e-bike designed for active individuals who combine urban commuting with gravel paths or interurban travel.
The range is completed by Kemen Tour and Kemen Adventure. These models represent two additional options depending on usage, with a focus on comfortable and efficient daily commuting or more demanding rides beyond the city where comfort and control are equally important.
The entire range is available through Orbea’s distribution network and on its website, with prices starting from £2,999.
