Whyte 2012
Research & Development :

Our R&D address might be in the Cotswolds, but our real test facilities are city streets and mountain trails all over the world.

We work out multi piece carbon lay ups through riding countless laps of Welsh trail centres but have them verified by our race team as far away as the dry riverbeds of Botswana. Our geometry is fractionally exact because we know it makes us faster and gives us more control, not because we’ve taken an average of what others have done. We confidently put a lifetime warranty on our suspension bearings, because we grind them through the same grit and grime you have to for thousands of hours a year. A CAD machine might make the final rendering, but that big lever on our unique seat clamp is there because we got sick of trying to shut a normal one with frozen fingers. We know the addition of Crud Catcher mounts to our mountain bike frames is a significant one for all of us, because it means our eyes sting less after our lunchtime ride and our tea isn’t washing grit off our teeth.

We could go on, but you get the idea. Whyte are genuinely a small group of dedicated UK riders, determined to produce the best bikes we can and not afraid to break some rules and set some benchmarks along the way.