Look a little closer and the attention to detail is fantastic, the intricate bits of folding and gussetting are testament to the love that goes into these bikes. The tubes can be skinny thanks to the properties of steel, so while you might not have the sleek lines of hydroformed aluminium or carbon fibre you do have superb strength and that un-matchable springiness that comes with it. The skinny tubes scream “steel” – lucky really as the bike is made out of lovely steel. Indeed, the styling of the bike with a burly linkage and a Cane Creek double barrel remind me a bit of a DH bike. I must admit to being a bit surprised when I found out the Pinner was a 140mm as it’s aesthetic lends itself to a longer travel. 140mm is pretty standard at the shorter end of “Enduro” travel bikes, and a few of our favourite all day bikes feature that length of travel. The Pinner is billed as a “go anywhere trail destroyer”, the idea being that it is strong enough to handle the abuse of uplifts, ride all day up and down hill, or even ride a trail centre or two. Since their early days they have grown their range and moved into a workshop at the legendary Bicycle Academy in Frome where they split their time between designing and making their own range and coaching for TBA. There they designed and made DH specific hardtails and turned a few heads with their down to earth approach to bike design. We’ve spent a couple of weeks riding BTR’s Pinner, a 140mm steel trail bike designed to sew up the “one bike” solution.īTR started as two guys in a shed, Burf is a South African born son of a bike shop owner and Tam is a Scot from beyond Fort William brought together by fate in the South East of England.
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