Picked up this trucker deluxe frame a few weeks ago and have been gathering up parts here and there. The rest were pillaged from my old Kuwahara dad bike. This thing feels so good!!!👍 #surly #surlybikes #surlytruckerdeluxe
80 years old, 2000 miles a year with Goodwife, mine is a Surly Crosscheck full dorko modded with spacers in head set for upright riding, Nitto Bosco bars haha. Works for me. Topeak rear rack and dedicated sliding bag with panniers. Narrow gel seat (buttskin too thin for Brooks). To hell with those ebikes. Thanks for great vid! (oh yeah! antique bell, of course!)
I’ve got a Surly long haul trucker. I was watching this because I want to put flat bars on due to hand arthritis, so this video was great thank you. I love the fact that you do a skid like a 12 year old kid😂
Just ordered a Surly Bridge Club from a shop in San Francisco, California - and looking forward to it! I live in the midwest US - so it was like a scavenger hunt finding it. Been searching for an Ogre (new/used) or a used ECR for several months and decided to pull the trigger on the Bridge Club. Some rack-adds in the future I'm sure. It'll be my first Surly as I've been a Trek and Jamis rider all my adult life. Thanks for all the info you share about your Surly fleet. Big fan of your Simple channel too. Congrats on the new shop.
Beautiful bike and love your build. Such a bonus to find a take down LHT. I have a Surly Bridge Club ‘20 27.5 for dirt road touring. I found a 97 Santa Cruz 700c hybrid I am moving into steel rando country bike. Think road-tour bike with flat bars and MTB 3x drive train.
On your ride you will find out why I start with 80-90s MTB frames. 26"wheels 1.75" tires for road and 1.95 for gravel, I go with 1X 8,9,10 drive trains with friction thumb shifters, 420cm width riser bars and the same kind of ergo hard rubber grips, bar height slightly higher than the seat, and a long handlebar stem so the steering is not squirrely.
I have my Surly LHT 26" sitting here right next to me, I've been struggling on making the bike as comfortable as possible. I'm wondering is that a Surly handlebar that you have on your build? I currently have a Surly Open Bar and I just went for a 30 mile ride and came back being uncomfortable on my back and arms. I don't want to go back to the drops (I'm in my 70s now)... the sweep on the Open Bars is too weird. The handlebars you have seem to be close to a flat bar, I need something to keep my Surly going. What bars did you wind up putting on?? Thanks, great video, i like your laidback approach, just like hanging out in a good old bike shop, just add a Golden Retriever in the corner!
I have a Surly LHT and also helped my friend build a Disc Trucker, but I never knew that Surly has made S&S couplers on its truckers! What a fun video to watch! May I please ask for your permission to add Chinese subtitles to this video and post it on Bilibili (a Chinese stream video platform) to let more non-English users get to know this awesome bike? Cheers
Yeah they're pretty cool. I wanted one way back when they came out and didn't think I'd ever have a chance to get one once they stopped making them. Pretty stoked to have it in the fleet.
