Whyte Total Geometry is a holistic design engineering approach pioneered for our bikes. It is responsible for their award-winning ride quality and the handling characteristics that let you ride your best every time you ride.
Whyte Total Geometry is a holistic design engineering approach pioneered for our bikes. It is responsible for their award-winning ride quality and the handling characteristics that let you ride your best every time you ride.
Whyte Total Geometry is a holistic design engineering approach pioneered for our bikes. It is responsible for their award-winning ride quality and the handling characteristics that let you ride your best every time you ride.
Whyte Total Geometry is a holistic design engineering approach pioneered for our bikes. It is responsible for their award-winning ride quality and the handling characteristics that let you ride your best every time you ride.
Total Geometry
Ride. Race. Explore. Commute
We all ride for different reasons but however you ride, all our bikes are engineered to inspire and empower you to do what you love more capably, with more control and in more confidence than ever before through our holistic Total Geometry design concept. Whyte Total Geometry means all measurements, angles, components, and masses are considered together to determine exactly how the bike will handle and perform as a whole; as an uncompromised totality. If we change and improve one aspect, we test and recalibrate the whole bike again until it rides totally right. This is how all our bikes are performance-optimised to deliver the extraordinary – nothing less than sweet spot characteristics, no matter how or where you’re riding.
Total Geometry
Ride. Race. Explore. Commute
We all ride for different reasons but however you ride, all our bikes are engineered to inspire and empower you to do what you love more capably, with more control and in more confidence than ever before through our holistic Total Geometry design concept. Whyte Total Geometry means all measurements, angles, components, and masses are considered together to determine exactly how the bike will handle and perform as a whole; as an uncompromised totality. If we change and improve one aspect, we test and recalibrate the whole bike again until it rides totally right. This is how all our bikes are performance optimised to deliver the extraordinary – nothing less than sweet spot characteristics, no matter how or where you’re riding.
Exceptional handling by design
Right at the beginning we chose to pioneer and perfect bike geometry – the thing that makes or breaks how well a bike rides. We wanted to give all our riders one thing: their most extraordinary ride, every ride.
Exceptional handling by design
Right at the beginning we chose to pioneer and perfect bike geometry – the thing that makes or breaks how well a bike rides. We wanted to give all our riders one thing: their most extraordinary ride, every ride.
Extraordinary starts with geometry
Confidence inspiring
The best geometry means the best handling and the best handling instils confidence that deepens on every ride. For many riders, the self-belief that’s cultivated is enough. For others, it inspires them to constantly challenge themselves and achieve new levels of personal performance. Either way, all our riders find their joy, be they novices or elite racers.
It’s our obsession. We live and breathe every angle and measurement through a practice we call Whyte Total Geometry. It means that we design the entire bike, folding the sum of its every part into the whole; as confidence isn’t as simple as a slack head angle or even as straight forward as a low bottom bracket. No one single angle or geometry measurement in isolation, or in partnership with a few others, is a magic bullet for exceptional handling.
More than the sum of its parts
Bikes ride brilliantly when everything is combined to work perfectly in unison. And not just the measurements and angles of how all the tubes that make up the frame are put together – but also the components and masses, too. The forks, the wheels, the bars, the stem, the rider, the battery, the motor – even a full water bottle – and more. They all play a significant part in putting you in the perfect position on the bike for maximum control.
Only by looking at all these factors together can we engineer bikes for mountains, trails, gravel and Tarmac that have an unequalled advantage over other bikes – performance optimised to deliver nothing less than perfect characteristics for elite racers, committed enthusiasts, and casual riders alike.
Positioned to perform
Whyte Total Geometry ensures that all our riders are positioned, centred, and balanced between the wheels exactly where they should be and that the bike connects into the terrain to feel totally planted – regardless of the bike or frame size.
Behind us are decades of exploring thousands of possible permutations in search of the perfect bike geometry for different jobs. Experimenting with previously untried designs, breaking bikes, breaking rules, breaking ourselves while testing prototypes, learning, curating parts, pushing our trusted component suppliers to the brink to think outside their conventions and (crucially) only pursuing what works consistently better.
Superior by design
Our most valuable learning is that there's only one simple rule that matters when dealing with the complexities of bike geometry: If we change and improve one aspect, we must test and recalibrate the whole bike again until it rides totally right. We do this because if a change makes another thing just slightly wrong then the whole ride will be wrong. Geometry and handling are welded or moulded in – you can’t adjust or swap it like a transmission. It needs to be right from the outset to deliver safety, efficiency and overall performance all at once as an uncompromised totality. This is the foundation of Whyte Total Geometry and this is what we believe makes the Whyte ride superior.
Extraordinary starts with geometry
Confidence inspiring
The best geometry means the best handling and the best handling instils confidence that deepens on every ride. For many riders, the self-belief that’s cultivated is enough. For others, it inspires them to constantly challenge themselves and achieve new levels of personal performance. Either way, all our riders find their joy, be they novices or elite racers.
It’s our obsession. We live and breathe every angle and measurement through a practice we call Whyte Total Geometry. It means that we design the entire bike, folding the sum of its every part into the whole; as confidence isn’t as simple as a slack head angle or even as straight forward as a low bottom bracket. No one single angle or geometry measurement in isolation, or in partnership with a few others, is a magic bullet for exceptional handling.
More than the sum of its parts
Bikes ride brilliantly when everything is combined to work perfectly in unison. And not just the measurements and angles of how all the tubes that make up the frame are put together – but also the components and masses, too. The forks, the wheels, the bars, the stem, the rider, the battery, the motor – even a full water bottle – and more. They all play a significant part in putting you in the perfect position on the bike for maximum control.
Only by looking at all these factors together can we engineer bikes for mountains, trails, gravel and Tarmac that have an unequalled advantage over other bikes – performance optimised to deliver nothing less than sweet spot characteristics for elite racers, committed enthusiasts, and casual riders alike.
Positioned to perform
Whyte Total Geometry ensures that all our riders are positioned, centred, and balanced between the wheels exactly where they should be and that the bike connects into the terrain to feel totally planted – regardless of the bike or frame size.
Behind us are decades of exploring thousands of possible permutations in search of the perfect bike geometry for different jobs. Experimenting with previously untried designs, breaking bikes, breaking rules, breaking ourselves while testing prototypes, learning, curating parts, pushing our trusted component suppliers to the brink to think outside their conventions and (crucially) only pursuing what works consistently better.
Superior by design
Our most valuable learning is that there's only one simple rule that matters when dealing with the complexities of bike geometry: If we change and improve one aspect, we must test and recalibrate the whole bike again until it rides totally right. We do this because if a change makes another thing just slightly wrong then the whole ride will be wrong. Geometry and handling are welded or moulded in – you can’t adjust or swap it like a transmission. It needs to be right from the outset to deliver safety, efficiency and overall performance all at once as an uncompromised totality. This is the foundation of Whyte Total Geometry and this is what we believe makes the Whyte ride superior.
“Flawed bike geometry is built-in. It niggles you on every ride. It’s there for the life of the bike, on every gradient, every terrain, in every corner. Worst case, it can haunt every ride like the ghost of the last crash it caused. You can’t wash it off, re-spray over it or cover it up with a vinyl wrap. Riders need something better. They need bike geometry that they can rely on to enhance safety, maximise efficiency and level up overall performance – all at once as an uncompromised totality.”
- Ian Alexander, Chief Designer at Whyte bikes
Total Geometry explained
We’ve done the legwork. Got your back
We’ve spent more than 22 years refining our Total Geometry approach to give you the best, most confident and capable ride possible.
Our Total Geometry tool box
Our design engineers never stop thinking, trying and testing new ways to create the perfect ride for you. For them, Whyte Total Geometry is a beautiful puzzle infused with their blood, sweat and tears. Literally. But they’re rewarded by competition wins, industry accolades, ‘best in tests’, and the thousands of grins we see on Whyte riders’ faces.
Here are some of the main facets of Whyte Total Geometry – our toolbox for building extraordinary rides:
Bikes – and riding – don’t stay still or static; they’re dynamic vehicles and so we never stand still either. We’re continually challenging both ourselves and conventional thinking in bike geometry to develop the next geometry and frame design breakthrough that makes a Whyte bike ride like no other – both now and into the future.
About us
Engineering extraordinary
Every industry has one – the renegade, the rule breaker. The one who seesit all differently and refuses to accept things that don’t work properly.
Performance by design
For mountain biking, that is Jon Whyte. And, to really understand our bikes, you need to understand him – the obsessive, maverick, lateral thinking design engineer. Someone for whom building bikes was part science, part instinct – but all emotion.Before bikes, there was the hyper-competitive engineering environment of F1 – designing the suspension system that propelled the underdog Benetton team, driven by a young Michael Schumacher, to the 1994 WorldChampionship.
Dedicated follower of passion
But there were always bikes too. F1 Podiums were great but Jon had mud flowing through his veins. He really got his kicks mountain biking at the weekends, and that's where he soon reached the conclusion that the big manufacturers weren’t doing a very good job on full suspension bikes.So he did what all great engineers do. He went a different direction and carved his own path. Striving for the same high-performance as F1, he started developing systems that would work on all terrain, any incline, for any rider. His single-pivot Marin Mount Vision powered Paul Lasenby to the first ever UK Pro-Elite cross country (XC) national points series race win for a full suspension bike in 1997. In doing so, it tore up the mountain bike design rule book and proved that full suspension was the future.
Daring to dare
Encouraged by that success, in 1999 the Whyte brand was launched, allowing Jon and his fledgling team to push the designs even further – with radical bikes like the PRST-1 and E5. The PRST-1 name came from the visually challenged but unstoppable robot dog ‘Preston’ from Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit 1995 short film A Close Shave.There’s no doubt that this machine divided opinion, but its unique linkage system could beat most obstacles and produced ride dynamics that gave riders a completely new level of confidence out on the trails. Thousands were sold, and they put huge grins of satisfaction across as many faces.
Our story
Engineering extraordinary
Every industry has one – the renegade, the rule breaker. The one who seesit all differently and refuses to accept things that don’t work properly.
Performance by design
For mountain biking, that is Jon Whyte. And, to really understand our bikes, you need to understand him – the obsessive, maverick, lateral thinking design engineer. Someone for whom building bikes was part science, part instinct – but all emotion.
Before bikes, there was the hyper-competitive engineering environment of F1 – designing the suspension system that propelled the underdog Benetton team, driven by a young Michael Schumacher, to the 1994 WorldChampionship.
Dedicated follower of passion
But there were always bikes too. F1 Podiums were great but Jon had mud flowing through his veins. He really got his kicks mountain biking at the weekends, and that's where he soon reached the conclusion that the big manufacturers weren’t doing a very good job on full suspension bikes.
So he did what all great engineers do. He went a different direction and carved his own path. Striving for the same high-performance as F1, he started developing systems that would work on all terrain, any incline, for any rider. His single-pivot Marin Mount Vision powered Paul Lasenby to the first ever UK Pro-Elite cross country (XC) national points series race win for a full suspension bike in 1997. In doing so, it tore up the mountain bike design rule book and proved that full suspension was the future.
Daring to dare
Encouraged by that success, in 1999 the Whyte brand was launched, allowing Jon and his fledgling team to push the designs even further – with radical bikes like the PRST-1 and E5. The PRST-1 name came from the visually challenged but unstoppable robot dog ‘Preston’ from Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit 1995 short film A Close Shave.
There’s no doubt that this machine divided opinion, but its unique linkage system could beat most obstacles and produced ride dynamics that gave riders a completely new level of confidence out on the trails. Thousands were sold, and they put huge grins of satisfaction across as many faces.