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Friday 24th September 2004

MTB designer Jon Whyte produces folding bike range

The three-bike range was launched at yesterday's opening of London's Cycle 2004 show. Jon Whyte is an ex-Formula 1 designer, famous for the PRST-1 Whyte MTB. Marin importer ATB Sales is producing Whyte's folding bikes under the Mezzo brand name.

Mezzo is Italian for 'half'.

Folding bike afficiandos made a beeline for the Mezzo stand at Cycle 2004.

Jon Whyte said: "I spent eight to nine times more time on the development of this project than the work I did on the Whyte mountain bikes."

The top-end D-9 with folding-bike specific Shimano Capreo shifters costs £645 for the anodised-frame versio. The I-4 Shimano Inter-4 internal hub gear model will retail for £595.