Whyte 46 review

Great bike, enjoy every minute im riding it! Add your review Name Email. Similar Whyte bikes Spec Value. Spec Value. More similar Whyte bikes. More similar bikes. Used bikes for sale. Related Reviews Merida One-Sixty 7. The overall effect of the design, paintjob and graphics is to quietly shout quality — most people who saw the bike on our demo day were immediately drawn to it, to ask about it, try it, feel its weight and so on. Any bike is only really as good as its bits.

Sounds obvious really but its surprisingly true, especially in this case. It suits the ethos of the bike well, both are lightweight but designed to provide significant travel. We were a bit concerned that when we picked up the test bike the forks appeared to be slightly out of true looking down from the top but no-one noticed this when riding.

To be fair, Thomas was probably the only one to give the bike a proper work out anyway. Anyone who has spent time on a Marin QUAD will know just how good the rear suspension design is in producing an exceptionally smooth but beautifully balanced ride. These features and the tremendous climbing ability that comes with it have transferred to the Whyte 46 in such a way that you tend to take it for granted.

With that kind of travel available it would be reasonable to expect the Whyte to be compromised in some way but the QUAD tricksyness and hyper plush front end, coupled to the stupidly light weight meant that the bike felt as though it was just cruising, which for most of the time it probably was.

Whyte seem to be quietly trying to move into new territory here without upsetting their hardcore and hard won band of loyal owners. The SRAM family also provides the brand new Reverb height adjustable seat post with hydraulic remote control release. Whyte Works — First ride review. Latest deals. Skip to view product specifications.

But really, it just proved that was not overall a good thing, as on the downs it was compromised. Greyspoke has a reasonable summation. My 46 was my first full susser so obviously it was amazing. It was great on the technical and pedally Ullswater singletrack for example. The shocks where both shot and it was squirming everywhere. I can do most repairs myself so tried to go through the bike piece by piece, it was then I found every nut and bolt was virtually seized due to the age of the bike.

My verdict is stay away get something newer it will save you money in the long run. It has had: — new front wheel bearings — new frame bearings expensive but very easy to extract and fit — new shock bearings and bushing — new stem the adjustable oversize one — very wide bar — complete fork strip — dropper post. It has the alpine link which significantly slackens it and drops the BB. Even with a cheap back wheel it is pretty light for the amount I paid for it.

I also love the fork. Once you get the hang of it it strips to pieces in minutes and having done that it now feels buttery smooth. I do long rides and some trail centre stuff. Weird tall, longish-travel bike with XC geometry. I borrowed one for a week when it was current and hated it with a passion.

That said, I was on an AQR holiday in the Pyrenees a couple of years back and one of the other guesst had one and rode the wheels off it quite impressively. A friend had one for a few years.