We’re excited to welcome Whyte Bikes to Outside Sports bike stores in Queenstown and Wanaka! As the only Whyte Bikes dealer in the South Island, we’re proud to bring these high-performance bikes to our customers.
Whyte Bikes Are Coming to Outside Sports
If you’re not already a fan of Whyte Bikes read on and you soon will be!
The Whyte Bikes story starts with Jon Whyte a lateral thinking design engineer who cuts his teeth in the hyper-competitive engineering environment of Formula 1 motor racing. Jon designed the suspension system that took Michael Schumacher to the 1994 World Championship.
Whyte Bikes - Engineering the Extraordinary:
F1 podiums were great, but Jon had bigger plans. His true passion was mountain biking, and he 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. Jon set off a different direction and began developing suspension systems that would work on all terrain, on any incline, and for riders of all levels. He ended up creating a revolution in full suspension bike design. His Whyte single-pivot equipped Marin bike helped Paul Lasenby to the first ever UK Pro-Elite cross country (XC) series win for a rider on a full suspension bike.
Encouraged by that success, Whyte Bikes was launched allowing Jon and his team to push his designs even further – with radical bikes like the PRST-1 and E5 – which features a unique linkage system that could beat most obstacles and produce ride dynamics that gave riders a completely new level of confidence.
Whyte ELyte-Mountain Bikes:
Now Whyte is leading the way in E-mountain bikes. The new Whyte Bikes ELyte mountain bikes are innovative bikes with award-winning handling and performance for your best ride, every time. Their Bosch motors provide power when you need it, with the extreme reliability Bosch is known for.
Outside Sports Queenstown 03 441 074
Bikes by Outside Sports Wanaka 03 443 1792