Litespeed Pinhoti III Frame (or Bike)

Description

The trail bike capable of expanding your ability to attack the mountain

The Litespeed Pinhoti has a history that appropriately matches our area’s rich mountain biking heritage. It all starts with the Pinhoti Trail just a few miles from our Chattanooga, Tenn. headquarters. The Pinhoti Trail extends between Snake Creek Gap and Dug Gap within the Chattahoochee Forest into north Georgia. Celebrated annually with the famed Snake Creek Gap Time Trial mountain bike series—a point-to-point race over 17 miles of technical ridgeline singletrack, Pinhoti Trail riders are challenged with roots, rock gardens, off-camber banking and tacky forest dirt. Dotted along its wending path by markers featuring the area’s wild turkey footprints, the Pinhoti Trail is quite simply the best of mountain biking—some say one of the most challenging—and fun—mountain biking in the country.

It was not a whimsical undertaking when Litespeed named the Pinhoti; the bike has truly represented the pinnacle of pure trail excellence, capable of scrambling ascents with boundless energy, with unsurpassed surgical precision on technical descents. It was the best in titanium trail riding.

The Pinhoti III remains a highly versatile machine offered in a speed-hungry 29” and a 27.5+ build that accommodates for the added footprint while delivering the confident traction and technical handling advantage found in 27.5+ tires.

On its face, the Pinhoti III gains a whole new range of tube shaping. From curves of the down tube and seat tube, to the subtle shaping along the stays, all tubesets have been updated in the interest of performance gains, namely greater vibration damping capacity. The Pinhoti III’s compliance will help keep you at your freshest, on even your longest days of ardent trail smashing.