This will automatically being checked at www. If there does not appear a WW discount position when you check out you do not have enough postings! Weight Weenies Forum Skip to content. Quick links. Forum rules. My attempts at road build garnered numerous illmatched ebay 'bargains' that I am now selling at a loss.
I want to build well present a box of bits to my bike guy a decent lightweight hardtail for tearing round reasonably well surfaced bridleways, lanes and non technical single track. I want front suspension, discs and would like to get to no more than 20lb. I think I'd manage it easier on a 26". Does anyone want to treat this as a challenge and produce a build list or should I just get on my butt and spend hours perusing this site and make some costly mistakes? It's not 16lb like the original Montpellier was, but it's still sublb and it shows.
It's easy to spin up to speed and once you're rattling along it's pretty easy to stay there, too. The wheels aren't the lightest part of this bike — neither the rims nor the tyres are especially feathery — but while that blunts acceleration a touch it's barely noticeable once you're going. What is noticeable is the slack geometry, and not in a bad way.
It's a lovely stable bike, which goes where you point it. I was worried that the head angle would make the steering feel a bit mushy, but there's none of that. Even with the amusingly named Ultra Narrow bar — 'only' 58cm wide — the steering feels direct and responds well to your input. The upright position means that there's not a lot of weight over the front wheel, but even so the front tyre grips well and the bike never feels vague. Well, almost never. All the above is true up to a point, and that point was about 40mph for me.
Once you're really tearing down the hills the unweighted front and slack angles start to make everything feel a touch woolly. Not so's you'd end up in a hedge or anything, but enough for you to scrub the edge off your pace. It's a super bike to carve through the tight turns at the bottom of Cheddar Gorge, for example, but along the top section with its fast, lazy dowhnill curves it wasn't a match for a tighter road frame.
A lot of the time you'll not be on the open road on a bike like this, though, but hacking through town. Those 58cm bars aren't the best when you're filtering through the cars. There's certain gaps you wouldn't go through that you might try on a narrower bike. On the whole though it's very well behaved on city streets, and light and quick enough to get where you want to with a minimum of fuss. It's not the kind of bike you fling through gaps though, anyway.
It's more like riding a road bike through town, quick enough to keep up with the traffic and the steering's positive but neutral. The 28mm tyres take the sting out of bad surfaces and the saddle and grips are well padded too. On top of that, the sloping frame means you're running a fair amount of seatpost which helps to soak up the bumps.
Anyway, comparing it to a road bike at all is testament to the fact that this is a hybrid bike you can do really long rides on. Normally with a bike of this ilk I'd drag myself on a 50km loop just to find out what the maximum sensible ride length would be but I never found the limit of the Montpellier.
You could ride this bike all day, no trouble at all. It's comfortable, efficient and easy to pilot. The transmission is excellent, with well defined shifts and good feedback. The frame is exceptionally stiff through the bottom bracket and chainstays so you never feel like you're wasting your input.
When you come to slow down the Hope X2 brakes are perfect for road, with plenty enough power and good modulation from a very lightweight unit. Contact points are good. Saddles are a personal thing but I got on fine with the SR Viper, which is racy in shape but with a bit of give. The Ergon GP1 grips give a nice solid platform for your hands, although as ever I'd prefer to see bar ends for that extra hand position.
All in all it's an excellent ride. There's lots to like about the Montpellier and if you're in the market for an expensive urban bike then I can recommend it. Admittedly that's a bit of a niche but equally, this bike would do for a light tourer, or a flat-barred 'crosser if you're not a serious racer. It's a pretty versatile platform. Okay you'll have to make do without your Hope bits, and it'a a bit heavier overall, but I can't shake the feeling that if it was my money I'd be hard pressed to justify the extra expenditure for what is, in nearly every sense, a very similar machine.
I'm guessing they'll sell a lot of Stirlings and the Montpellier will remain a low volume range topper, albeit at a lower price and higher volume than the previous year. That doesn't make it a bad bike though, it's very well built and enormous fun to ride. If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road. State the frame and fork material and method of construction.
List the components used to build up the bike. Tell us what the bike is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? Continuous outer cable routing and Crud Catcher mounts provide filthy weather protection.
Whyte have only gone for bigger wheels on the larger Whyte have moved to own-brand wheelsets for The big WTB Bronson tyres are good all-rounders too. Whyte tell us that the g 3. With the lower specced but 1,g 2. Whyte 29er — First ride review. Latest deals. This should make upgrading the basic spec M easy. The same basic chassis is the foundation for the two new T bikes — the basic T and T S.
The only differences are a slacker, degree head angle rather than The arrival of the 29er bikes sees the demise of the T trail bike, but the longer-travel lives on in three evolved models — the S, Works and X1.
A mid-frame cross brace is claimed to add 11 percent to the previously flexy chassis, for a negligible weight gain. While the flagships remain aspirational in terms of technology, spec and performance, the rest of the Whyte range is dropping to more affordable levels. Significantly, the trail hardtail range is now headed up by the 29er , a rework of the that Whyte acknowledged was a result of our review conclusions. The relatively slack geometry is similar, with 0. The big front tyre and fork suggest the is likely to be a technical singletrack beast.
The same weight-saving focus has applied to a trio of mm travel XC bikes.
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