We recently ordered and built a Surly Bikes cargo trailer for a customer. This one is the so called Bill trailer. The shorter Surly trailer is the Ted. In typical Surly fashion these trailers are way better than they need to be. The beds and the hitch are made mainly of TIG welded 4130 ChroMoly Read More
One of the great things about being involved with Bike Touring News is the opportunity to live vicariously through the people we meet. Soon (next month), Asa will fly to Europe with his bike for a year long "literary pilgrimage". We got a chance to talk to him first about his planning and preparations. Find Read More
90 percent of the Bike Hermit's trips around town are made by bicycle. He doesn't care if you ride your bike or not. He is not out to change the world or to save the environment. He just enjoys riding his bike and he truly thinks it's just as quick and infinitely more convenient than Read More
Asa thinks I'm an (expletive deleted) because I mock him for naming his bike Rocinante. But it's just because the Bike Hermit is a rough, illiterate man. And because I'm jealous of him. He is leaving next month for a year long bike touring trip in Europe. He is twenty something. Actually I am not Read More
Second in a series on bottom brackets. Numero uno is here. The newest (2012) Long Haul Trucker complete bikes come with the Shimano UN55 square taper bottom bracket which is an improvement over the UN-P.O.S. used in earlier years, but when asked what I might upgrade on a stock Long Haul Trucker I am likely Read More
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