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Make It Your Own: The “If You Love It, Let It Go” Karate Monkey
Some people have strong feelings about wheel size. Our hardtail trail companion Karate Monkey likes to party with 27.5+ wheels and 29ers alike. That open-minded versatility extends to braze-ons and...
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Humanoids of Surly | Andrea and Jake
Names: Andrea Molina and Jake Dacks Location: Right now, San Salvador, El Salvador. If you ask us in a week, we hope the answer will be somewhere in Nicaragua. Who do you think you are anyway?...
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The Surly Corner Bar – If It Weren’t Weird, It Wouldn’t Be Surly
We Made a Drop Bar for Your Mountain Bike. Enter the Corner Bar. Grab a stool and say hi to the Surly Corner Bar, a strange yet versatile handlebar that allows you to try out a drop-bar hand position...
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Humanoids of Surly: Hafis Hassan
Name: HAFIS HASSAN (Apis) Location: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA Who Do You Think You Are Anyway? My name is Mohammad Hafis Bin Hassan, 34 years old and better known as APIS. I come from Gombak, Selangor...
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Make It Your Own: The Zip-Tied Urban Bikepacking Straggle Rat
Greetings, Our fearless leader Pintz Guzzld recently put fists to keyboard to tell us how his personality-rich Pack Rat/Straggler mashup came to be. Set up as a single speed for front-loaded rambling,...
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Make It Your Own: The Surlyized Karate Jumper
‘90s nostalgia can send you in a lot of different directions — Power Rangers, Tickle Me Elmo, and Mrs. Doubtfire to name a few. But if we’re time-traveling back to the heyday of Grunge and Crystal...
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Humanoids of Surly : Isabel Del Real
Name: Isabel Del Real Location: Britanny, France Who do you think you are anyway? I’m Isabel Del Real, a 24-year-old French-Spanish bikepacker currently heading east through Europe. Some say I’m...
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Midnight Special Giveaway: Donate $5 to Help Full Cycle Feed Minneapolis Kids
Greetings, We’ve built up one of the baddest Midnight Specials to date to raise some money for a great cause. If you win, you’ll choose your frame size and it’ll be built up with components from our...
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Bikepacking With Dzil Ta’ah Adventures of the Navajo Nation.
Today we’re handing over the Surly blog to Jon Yazzie, a full-blooded Dine (Navajo) from Kayenta, Arizona. Jon is Owner and CEO of Dzil Ta’ah Adventures, an organization providing backcountry cultural...
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Steel Yourselves. The Surly Ghost Grappler Is Here
Surly Bikes Presents Ghost Grappler Ghost Grappler Is Our Dedicated Drop-Bar Trail Bike We built Ghost Grappler for quick-and-dirty bikepacking trips — weekend excursions, weeknight romps, and...
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Make It Your Own: Abner’s Bridge Club/Big Easy Double Dip
Greetings, Back in September 2020, we introduced you to Humanoid of Surly and Dad Bike Enthusiast Abner Z. Rangel-Leal. At the time, Abner was hauling two kids and a sack of groceries around the...
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Humanoids of Surly: Aneka Crisostomo
Name: Aneka Crisostomo Location: Manila, Philippines Who Do You Think You Are Anyway? Hello! I’m Aneka, a 30-something former office lady who just recently quit corporate to explore her options and...
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Home Again: A Bike Ride to a Bike Race (Film by Slim Wonder)
Meet Slim Wonder, Humanoid of Surly. You may remember reading his weblog for Surly Bikes in 2018, or perhaps his well-traveled Midnight Special in Perry’s Winkle Blue has materialized on your Instagram...
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Humanoids of Surly: Caz Franklin
Name: Caziah Rashad Franklin Location: Nashville, TN via Forth Worth, TX Who do you think you are anyway? I am a musician, writer, producer, creator, and photojournalist by trade, as music and the...
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Surly Does the Dorset Dirt Dash
Hello Surly Readers, We have a special treat on the blog today. Just back from the UK’s famed Dorset Dirt Dash, Longtime Surly Ringmaster Pintz Guzzld sits down for a quick Q&A with Matt Tag, a...
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The Bagel Runner Midnight Special | Make It Your Own
Greetings, Let’s all give a steely Make It Your Own welcome to Dan, Chief of Propaganda here at Surly Bikes. He’s logging on today to walk you through one of the noteworthy steeds in his stable, a...
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Touring the World on a Surly Troll With Yann Lecanu
Allow us to introduce to you Yann Lecanu, 43, a photographer and video director from Paris, France. Yann is taking over the Surly blog today to share his experience touring the world on two wheels. The...
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Steel Yourselves. The Surly Grappler Is Here
Surly Bikes Presents Grappler Grappler Is Our Dedicated Drop-Bar Trail Bike We built Grappler for quick-and-dirty bikepacking trips — weekend excursions, weeknight romps, and spontaneous off-road...
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Humanoids of Surly: So Kaneko aka Kaneyan
Name:So Kaneko, “Kaneyan”, “Kaneyaaan Location: Shibuya Tokyo Japan 名前 : 金子 聡、so Kaneko、カネヤン、kaneyaaan 現在地 : 東京都渋谷区...
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Is Mountain Bike Suspension Pointless?
Editor’s preamble: Today’s blog is a special blog. It’s a guest blog to be exact. Our pal Colin True, host of the Rock Fight Podcast provides us with a controversial hot take from the mountain bike...
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