Indeed, Sky King has a new love. I happen to be quite spoiled and spend many happy hours on my " Excellent Creative Riding" machine also known as the "Extremely Cool Ride" and for those of you who don't know me, just call it my Surly ECR. We ventured out in August for a S24O Read More
This is the Surly Straggler bicycle. It's similar to a Surly Cross Check but with a few crucial differences; most notably the Straggler has disc brakes and comes stock with Surly Knard 700c x 41 tires. Surly sent us this bike to try out after the Interbike trade show in September and I have had Read More
In a previous post I compared and contrasted the Surly Pugsley and the Pug Ops. The Moonlander is Surly's fattest fatbike with mammoth 4.8" Surly Lou and Bud tires with 120t.p.i. (25% bigger than the Pugsley tires) on 100mm "Clown Shoe" rims. In order to make room for the fatter tires the Moonlander's rear triangle Read More
In an earlier post I talked about cable actuated disc brakes on the Long Haul Trucker. Surly rolls out bikes in new colors each year (or so). They continue to sell bikes in the previous year's colors until they are gone. For 2014 the new Disc Trucker color is burgundy. We just finished this bike Read More
We had a chance to take the Surly fat bikes out this Labor Day weekend and this is my report. From Bike Touring News H.Q. we did a quick 10.6 mile loop that took in some single track so we could see how the bikes handled. I rode the standard Pugsley and Sky King was Read More
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