Eager riders have probably already spotted the latest Lowside to roll out of our workshop thanks to the recent article on Bikepacking.com 🙂 The Surly Lowside is kinda like a grown-ups BMX. The singlespeed design makes it great for messing about in the back streets of your local hood, or Read More
We arrived at Marrakesh airport on Thursday evening, giving ourselves a day spare incase the bikes went walkies during the flight. No need to worry, they turned up fine. We got a ride to the hotel that also happened to be where the race would start the next morning. We Read More
So, we’re back super early from the Silk Road Mountain Race 2019 in Kyrgyzstan due to an incident involving Shona’s head and a staircase in a guesthouse. The cut was pretty deep and swollen so helmet wearing was not an option. Racing over. As we were 6 hours from the Read More
Well, now the puppy’s out of the kennel and soon the full list of who’s in this years race will be published. It’s quite well known in our little pool that we currently hold the mixed pairs record for the Highland Trail 550 on a tandem. Due mostly to the Read More
We saw these when we visited the Angry Catfish bikeshop in Minneapolis – replacement rivets to bling up your Cambium. £40.00 and in stock now! Made in the USA in Upstate Utah Includes: 5 coloured Cambium rivets – red, blue, orange, gold, green, pink or turquoise 5 screws with threadlock Read More
Hope discs with Avid BB7 brakes and those Paul Comp skewers. Surly sealed bearing disc hubs finish it all off. Pretty neat.
It took us 14 days to cover the 1700 kilometres to complete the first Silk Road Mountain Race. Four days longer than we had originally anticipated. That seems the going rate for the under-estimation for all 97 riders that toe’d the line in Bishkek on that Saturday morning. Of those Read More
Love at first ride, my Surly Midnight Special. As soon as The Official Intergalactic Surly Regional HQ announced the Midnight Special I knew I had to have one. Fat road- what’s not to like? Yes the geometry is more road than off road- but I reckoned some fatter tyres, a slightly more relaxed set-up and […]
After seeing and hearing about last years inaugural Torino – Nice rally we decided it was definitely on our ‘to do’ list. We managed to be organised enough to book our flights to Italy and our first nights accommodation in January and then we promptly forgot about it. Fast forward to 2 Read More
It’s 8.45 on a saturday morning and outside the real food cafe in Tyndrum 48 people are waiting for 9am, the official start time for the Highland Trail 550. The HT550 is a long distance, self supported 550 mile off road time trial route around the highlands of Scotland. There is Read More
