Whyte Road Bikes

Whyte have launched three models. The Whyte Sussex is £799 with an alloy fork and sports a Shimano Sora 9 speed compact drive train. The Whyte Dorset is £999, has a carbon fork and has Shimano Tiagra 34-50 compact, 10 speed drive train. The top model is the £1,199 Suffolk with carbon fork and Shimano 105 10-speed, 34-50 compact drive train.

Whyte Suffolk

All share a 6061 aluminium frame with mudguard and rack eyelets,subtly styled with lots of black, grey and silver, off-set by touches of matching coloured graphics and anodised parts. As such they’ll appeal to a wide selection of buyers.

Whyte Dorset

An aluminium frame with disc brakes makes a lot of sense. Aluminium still has a lot to offer as a frame material. Modern aluminium tubesets are tougher and more resilient than ever, whilst still maintaining the stiff and relatively lightweight properties that first attracted frame builders; after all it wasn’t that long ago that we were all racing on aluminium bikes before carbon came along and cast its spell.

Whyte Sussex

Slap on some disc brakes to your aluminium frame and you immediately make it clear that this is not a race bike – you still cannot use them in competitive road racing. You do, however, remove any concerns over rim wear which is the bane of winter cycling with rim brakes. You therefore end up with a pretty tough all-rounder, a touring, winter or commuter bike that can take a lot of abuse. Whyte claim to offer ‘cyclo-cross durability with pure road geometry’. Makes sense to us.

In an attempt to provide the perfect package, Whyte have even gone to the trouble of designing their own specific and sturdy looking, aftermarket mudguards to fit these frames. The reflective decals on the rims for extra night-time safety and lockable skewers to aid wheel security all suggest that a lot of thought has gone into these bikes.
 
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