Whyte Bikes Available via Direct Sales in the USA
The Whyte Bikes brand was started in 2000 as a collaboration between Jon Whyte, former Benetton F-1 engineer, and ATB Sales who were the UK distributor for Marin Bikes, Manitou and Pearl Izumi at the time. Having been a design and engineering house for innovative and history making full suspension designs under the Marin brand name in the late 1990’s, and with a growing and evolving British bicycling consumer market, the Whyte Bikes brand was launched to push mountain bike technology, both in terms of performance and in manufacturing technology, in new directions.
Since its beginning as a technology developer and market innovator Whyte Bikes has received multiple bike of the Year awards from WMB and MBUK Magazines, and produced numerous test winning bikes in an increasingly crowded fields of global brands.
Whyte Bikes USA are initially going to be bringing in 11 different models, from a Cyclocross bikes, to 130mm carbon and aluminum trail bikes and enduro / gravity bikes, with prices starting at $1000 USD and ranging to $5,499 plus free shipping and a money-back guaranteed.
T-130 Carbon Works / $5499.00
The T-130 C works features our new single ring specific Carbon frame, a full-width main pivot that increases torsional stiffness, extends bearing life and maximizes suspension performance The T130 is designed to be a full suspension version of our award winning 900 series hardtails. 130mm travel front and rear and a long and low geometry will give you full trail control.
Whyte T-129RS / $3349.00
The Works SCR features our single ring specific frame with mega stiff symmetrical chainstays, a full width main pivot for extended bearing life and maximised suspension performance. SCR frame with symmetrical chainstays for increased stiffness / Shimano XT 1 by 11 drivetrain /Fox Float 34 with FIT4 Damper with the all new Float DPS double chamber rear shock and Reverb Stealth seat post.
Whyte G-160 Works / $4499.00
This is the bike our Gravity Enduro Team race on, and as such, it's got the best of everything, from SRAM, Easton, Hope, RaceFace, Maxxis, and of course, Whyte.
Whyte Saxon Cross Team / $2099.00
A truly groundbreaking cross bike with MTB-inspired geometry, tubeless wheels, hydraulic disc brakes and SRAM's innovative Force CX groupset, this bike is ready for anything.SRAM Force CX 1x11spd drivetrain and hydraulic disc brakes / Easton EA90 XD UST wheelset / Easton EC-90 full carbon disc fork. Even has internal routing for a dropper post!
www.whyteusa.bike
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not carbon wheels, but also that is the retail price (5900).. walk in with cash and I bet you can get 20% off easy and get yourself some carbon hoops..
Im just laughing cuz a 40 year old person would walk into a dealership and ask for 20% off a 2016 product, when 16's haven't even been available like they are for the first time this summer. Lol that's just really funny. I'm not used to people like that where I'm from, oh wait yes I am...
" hey dude, like wear your Sam Hill 5 10s into there, talk about your favorite IPA and they'll like give you 20% off I bet, brahchacho,a nd lose their account. Like I've ridden bikes since the 80s bro. Like trust me, I'm billybob, I opened a garage bike shop once, and even though I mounted front derailleurs wrong, like I totally have a viable opinion, man. I bet they'll totally give you 20%."
Sorry, I'm making fun of you.
"When you buy a car do you accept whatever the salesman tells you is "fair" and if they go below that price do you insist on paying more?" -Stupid example thats simply moronic which you used to try to make someone sound dumb and didn't even have anything to do with what I said.
" I've bought current year bikes brand new at half off. " -Ya, were talking about a 2016 bike...its still 2015, but, you, seem so hasty to call ppl a dumbass, lol, what.a.dumbass
"But you seem dumb enough to believe whatever a salesman wants you to believe. A fool and his money are easily parted" - Again has nothing to do with what we were talking about, maybe a feeble attempt to make fun of me cuz now you are offended too? Not sure, but you don't seem to know what year or even the ethics we are talking about. @ericwahl83
I have a hard time believing that any shop currently in existence does business the way in which you describe.
Mind you, we have a lot of bike stores in town (more than you'd think a town this size could possibly support), and even here in MTB Nirvana this level of service is not the norm. But in a bike industry where parts and bikes are available online, these guys clearly have found a way to carve out a niche for themselves - more power to them.
Unicorn? Perhaps - but really, I'm guessing in 5-10 years, you won't find too many LBSs that don't operate this way - they'll have gone under. It's a service business, rather than a retail one. Bikesport has figured that out; other stores will either follow or decline.
That is the biggest indirect benefit of these new consumer-direct brands. I see so many people go out and defend the LBS like it is some sort of altruistic organization that is the only thing standing in the way of mountain bikers and ruin. I will agree that there are those out there who do give a lot of trail time and even legislative time to help our experience as cyclists improve (I have been to one), however most shops I have been to and spent money at were no better than the Apple store: I was a body, I probably didn't know squat, but I had money(they thought). One hinted that my money, as a downhiller, was not really welcome. Online brands will force shops to either up their customer service and experience game, or die. Those that survive will be worth supporting, I will even pay full retail at such a store. But until a shop can make it clear that my dollar goes far beyond just buying a bike, I will support the online brands or the PB classifieds, whichever I can afford.