XS Surly Grappler Jones Loop bars all wrapped up in SupaCaz tape and Ergon Grips Avid BB7 brakes with 180 rotors and FR-5 levers 1 x 12 Shimano XT drivetrain on Hope 27.5″ Pro5 wheels So simple and so good. Purple Hope on the Green frame is ace! One of Read More
Hope discs with Avid BB7 brakes and those Paul Comp skewers. Surly sealed bearing disc hubs finish it all off. Pretty neat.
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 […]
It‘s been almost 3 weeks since I came back from Geneva where I took part in the 4th edition of Hells Belles European all female bike polo tournament and all this time I have been dreading the moment I will finally have to sit down and try to word my Read More
After a tough few months at the Keep Pedalling Headquarters we all (well, the 3 of us, or 4 if you count Olive the terrier) decided that we needed a break. Olive was packed off to a relative for her own special quality time and Sylwia took herself off to Read More
So we decided to build the ultimate on/off road tourer. With an off road excursion in Morocco in December planned it was time to build up the bike for a shakedown trip in Scotland. We chose to use a Surly Troll as the foundation for the build, when the cockroaches Read More
Thought it was time to get the Surly ECR dirty and this past weekend was perfect. We put our names down for the Bear Bones 200 a bit ago and have been popping to mid-Wales to recce some of the route for a while now. The area around the Elan Read More
