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Rainy Sunday: The Quick Rim Swap.
Inspired by the particularly shitty weather on a recent Sunday afternoon I got to one of the many bike maintenance projects I had piling up. Last “season” I had put a few hundred miles on a newly...
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Report from Fruita by Bob and A3
Day one we got to denver and ate a bunch of chips and tacos with phillip and tyler. Salvagetti looks awesome and they are busting their ass to move surly. Lots of karate monkeys, which was a surprise...
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Cool Bike Art or Fiendish Gateway Vehicle??
So our Art Director (AWood) does all kinds of really cool art, as well as design our t-shirts, catalog, frame decals and other stuff for our brand. Last year he involved himself in celebration of...
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SSEC 2013 Report
Last week I was lucky enough to attend Single Speed European Championships in Spain. I went there with Greg. For him it was his first time, and for me my third. The first time I went was in 2007,...
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Pedal Pumpers
Over the weekend I saw a posting from an online bike dealer that caused some chamois to bunch up. They posted the image below with a tag line You don’t get legs like this pushing a gas pedal!...
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Going Camping: Preface.
So I’ve been thinking…What would it be like to camp 2 or 3 days a week for the rest of the summer? Except, of course, for times when I’m not actually in Minneapolis. It’s absolutely feasible for me...
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Scotland, Fatbikes, Beer, Whiskey and the Skip and Gern Show
Sov and I are in a massive van, being piloted by a Brit named Pat on our way to a hotel outside of London near Heathrow Airport. We’re driving away from Single Speed UK, in Swanage, which is on the...
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Fruita Fat Tire Festival 2013
Fruita, dinosaurs and drive through liquor stores. For years now I’ve wanted to go to Fruita for the Fat Tire Festival but something always got in the way. Things like work, money, life; I’m sure...
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So our newest bike, the Krampus, started shipping a few weeks ago. We just couldn’t be happier or more proud of our new baby. It has, however, come to light that there are a few hiccups with the...
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Haulin’ Some History
Recently, I gave a fatbike-oriented presentation. I figured some props would be helpful, so I dug around in the garage and came up with some appropriate pieces. I had to get the hardware to the...
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Things I Learned at Single Speed UK
"Don't be a dick." Charlie the Bikemonger knows a few things about brevity. He's also fluent in sinlge speed races, or "reliability trials," or "liability trials." Whichever. Maybe this doesn't make...
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Taiwan Trip
Adam and I are currently in transit on our way home from Taiwan. We were there for two weeks, enjoying all that is a product development trip for Surly. We kicked off some brand new projects and...
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An Unlikely Swamp Monster
Having been “with” Surly for quite a long time now, I have been honored to meet a lot of fine people (I have also have been made to suffer many more people with whom I did not “see eye-to-eye,” but...
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Haulin’ Some History
Recently, I gave a fatbike-oriented presentation. I figured some props would be helpful, so I dug around in the garage and came up with some appropriate pieces. I had to get the hardware to the...
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Single Speed Cross Check
So as some of you may know, we here at Surly make a little bike called the Cross Check. This was the first bike we ever offered as a complete bike, that was way back in the year 2000 when many of you...
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A Long Strange Trip
A few years ago we came up with the idea to do a S&S coupled frame set as an option for those of us who travel a fair amount and want to bring our bicycles along with us. Having a bike to ride in...
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Der Baron Rohloff Von Moonlander
I’ve always been intrigued by the Rohloff hub. It’s a pretty ridiculous piece of equipment that seems to get people worked up for one reason or another and I like that about it. Some people say it’s...
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Get out of the Dirt
We have a Surly retreat coming up where we are packing up the bikes like donkeys and riding southwest to camp out, drink tea and wax-poetic about bicycles for a few days. I was onboard when the idea...
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So our newest bike, the Krampus, started shipping a few weeks ago. We just couldn’t be happier or more proud of our new baby. It has, however, come to light that there are a few hiccups with the...
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