The best lightweight eMTB you can buy*
ELyte has already secured two prestigious ‘Bike Of The Year 2024’ award wins and exceptional plaudits from the world’s best independent bike testers.
*According to MBUK/BikeRadar’s ‘Bike of the Year 2024’ awards (ELyte 150 Works) + BikePerfect’s ‘Best Electric Mountain Bikes 2024’ (ELyte 140 Works) awards.
Fast, light and powerful – with the range to do it all
Experience electric – without compromise
Engineered for riders who want a lighter and more familiar ‘mountain bike’ ride experience than full-fat eMTBs offer, ELyte is designed to deliver zero compromises wherever your trail takes you: the singletrack, the all-day epic, the home trail hot laps, the drop-ins, the descents, the tech and the climbs back out.
See the rangeFast, light and powerful – with the range to do it all
Experience electric – without compromise
Engineered for riders who want a lighter and more familiar ‘mountain bike’ ride experience than full-fat eMTBs offer, ELyte is designed to deliver zero compromises wherever your trail takes you: the singletrack, the all-day epic, the home trail hot laps, the drop-ins, the descents, the tech and the climbs back out.
See the rangeFast, light and powerful – with the range to do it all
Experience electric – without compromise
Engineered for riders who want a lighter and more familiar ‘mountain bike’ ride experience than full-fat eMTBs offer, ELyte is designed to deliver zero compromises wherever your trail takes you: the singletrack, the all-day epic, the home trail hot laps, the drop-ins, the descents, the tech and the climbs back out.
See the rangeHighlights
All-new frame
Light and strong carbon-fibre frameset with geometry adjustment + full weatherproofing.
Two flavours
Choice of cross-country (XC)/lightweight trail (ELyte 140) + trail/enduro bike (ELyte 150) models.
Bosch Power
Bosch’s all-new lightweight Performance Line SX mid-torque (55Nm) motor (600W peak power).
Up to 650Wh
650Wh combined battery capacity on Works bikes (400Wh internal battery + 250Wh range extender); 400Wh internal battery on the RSX.
Smooth-rolling
29er carbon wheels front and rear that are light, tough and compliant to give you every advantage across any trail.
Suspension perfection
Whyte custom-tuned rear suspension delivers perfect performance, wherever the trail takes you.
Uncompromised parts
Pitch-perfect, trail-proven components that are up the job and won't let you down. No corners cut to shave off a few grams to grab a headline.
Highlights
All-new frame
Light and strong carbon-fibre frameset with geometry adjustment + full weatherproofing.
Two flavours
Choice of cross-country (XC)/lightweight trail (ELyte 140) + trail/enduro bike (ELyte 150) models.
Bosch Power
Bosch’s all-new lightweight Performance Line SX mid-torque (55Nm) motor (600W peak power).
Up to 650Wh
650Wh combined battery capacity on Works bikes (400Wh internal battery + 250Wh range extender); 400Wh internal battery on the RSX.
Smooth-rolling
29er carbon wheels front and rear that are light, tough and compliant to give you every advantage across any trail.
Suspension perfection
Whyte custom-tuned rear suspension delivers perfect performance, wherever the trail takes you.
Uncompromised parts
Pitch-perfect, trail-proven components that are up the job and won't let you down. No corners cut to shave off a few grams to grab a headline.
The range
The range
The Range
XC/Trail + Trail/Enduro
Choose from two flavours of ELyte for how you ride: ELyte 140 (category 3) for cross-country (XC) and down-country riding, or our ELyte 150 bikes (category 4) for more aggressive, trail and enduro riding.
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ELyte insights
ELyte insights
ELyte insights
Beautifully light, reassuringly strong
The beating heart of every ELyte is an all-new, lightweight yet strong carbon fibre chassis that carefully packages Bosch's light and powerful Performance Line SX mid-torque (55Nm), full power (600W) motor and 400Wh internal battery seamlessly so you can fly under the radar as stealthily as you’ll fly down the trails.
Exceptional handling, however you ride
We've carefully positioned the mass of the Bosch PowerMore 250Wh range extender – included with both Works bikes as standard – as low in the frame as possible to optimise the bike's centre of gravity and deliver an exceptional handling bike, however you want to ride: with the range extender on for longer rides out in the hills, or without for lapping your local trails.
Similarly, without the PowerMore in place, you can run a full 750ml water bottle in the same rock-bottom low position, using the supplied bottle cage mount, for the same handling win.
Natural ride response
With its sensitive and reactive response, the new Bosch Performance Line SX motor delivers a more natural ride experience than the full-fat Performance Line CX motor, rewarding higher pedalling cadences and rider effort as it delivers up to 340% support and 600W of peak power. This means it requires you to pedal at higher cadences (around 100-105rpm) to unlock its higher support and peak power but, once there, it will sustain that support even up steep and technical climbs. The motor’s narrower 160mm Q-factor is also more akin to mechanical (analogue) bikes, too.
Trail proven parts
Every ELyte is specced to perform from off the shop floor, with nothing that has been put on the bike to shave grams just to grab a headline. It’s all trail-proven, real-world kit that will serve any rider flawlessly: trail-tough, reinforced tyres; reliably powerful four-pot brakes; full-length dropper posts; wide handlebars, and usage-appropriate forks (34s for the XC/trail ELyte 140 Works + 35/36s on the ELyte 150 bikes), so there’s no need to compromise on the way you ride.
Test ride near you
Experience our award-winning lightweight, mid-torque, full-power ELyte eMTBs at a demo near you. See our calendar of events to get behind the bars and experience extraordinary for yourself.
Learn moreHave your bike, your way
So you can ride it your way, we’ve designed the ELyte to give you the option to set it up and ride it as you want:
Designed to perform, engineered to last
We’ve designed, tested, and proven every ELyte in our native UK, riding all year round through the best and the worst of conditions. Riding through the foulest, bearing-killing winters and their bike clogging mud means we’ve added a whole host of weather-proofing touches that may not grab headlines, but will keep you riding sweeter and for longer, come what may.
See the complete range
Explore the full range of our award-winning lightweight, mid-torque, full-power electric mountain bikes.
See the bikesStanding behind what we make
Nobody knows our bikes better than us which is why we back every Whyte bike with the best rider support out there, a four-year extended warranty against materials and manufacturing defects on all frames, a lifetime warranty on all suspension pivot bearings together with a one-year warranty on parts, and a one-year cosmetic warranty on paint and decals.
Whyte bikes
Behind you for the long haul
Four-year extended frame warranty + lifetime pivot bearing warranty
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Keeping you rolling, come what may
Two-year warranty + two-year crash replacement
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Buy online, collect in-store
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Payment options that work for you
Rider support
UK-based customer service