Whyte E-160 RSX 29er First Ride Review

The Whyte E-160 now comes in all of the wheel size flavours. It’s a height-dependent wheel size smorgasbord though. Any size bigger than a S is availa …

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Whyte E-160 RSX 29er First Ride Review

Run it in steep mode and add a -2 headset.

Things you like: big battery
Things you don’t like: big battery

Eh?

Make up your mind

thegeneralist
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Things you like: big battery
Things you don’t like: big battery

Eh?

Pretty obvious I thought? Range = good, weight = not good, so choose your poison accordingly.

So if you had to remove all the rebound damping and turn up the compression damping on the rear shock is it a case that the bikes undershocked, or it wasn’t set up properly, to do those settings on a shock tends to go against the norm, is it able to be sorted by spacers, or not?

No mention of the weight? I think the pinkbike review mentioned these things were 58lbs! FIFTY EIGHT!

The fact that it has a slack seat angle and short chainstays, and consequently is less good at home climbing technical Singletrack along with the heigh weight seems a bit of a mismatch with the travel.

After all, if one is riding a heavy e-bike best suited to fire road ascending, then it might as well have enduro or DH amounts of suspension for the descent.

I would think that the purpose of a mid travel e-bike is to make normal mtb rides (meaning singletrack uphil, downhill and level-ish) longer and more fun, by boosting speed on the flat sections, and boosting endurance on the techy uphil sections.

@Benji, how do you like the e-hybrid HX wheelset? I got a cheap pair of the 1501s for my winter (and spring, summer and autumn) hardtail and actually prefer the silence to the Hope Pro4 hubs I had before. Haven’t noticed the decrease in engagement angle at all (~30 points from the Hope’s 44).

Looks like a Boardman.