WHYTE E-160 RSX

£7,999 • 29 in • whytebikes.com

I stumbled across a Loris Vergier soundboard the other day. At the click of your mouse you get access to all kinds of suspension and riding insights, like “cac-cac-cac-cac,” “wrah-wrah-wrah,” and so on. I mention it now, because I couldn’t ride the new Whyte E-160 without making sounds like this. It’s such an exuberant bike to ride, it draws out the inner child in you and makes you want to slap corners like Loris, something that took me completely by surprise on a bike that weighs more than 26kg.

While you digest that number, on what is probably the heaviest e-bike I have ever ridden, you’ll need to know what’s changed on this iteration of one of our favourite ever e-bikes.

By a mile, the best improvement Whyte has introduced is to make the battery slide in and out more easily. You can put your steel-toe-cap boots away, because