Surly Bridge Club | Your Chance to Help Kit out Mildred's New Bike
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- čas přidán 12. 02. 2019
- There’s a plethora of touring bikes on offer these days, though many tend to cater for either paved or off-road outings. Surly’s Bridge Club essentially bridges the gap (pun intended) between the two to create an all-in-one multi-surface long-distance machine.
Find out more about the bike as Staff Writer Mildred Locke explains in the video.
Mildred plans to go bikepacking in some wild places later in the year, but what should she use to kit out her new ride? Let us know in the comments and your suggestions might make it onto the bike!
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I'd start with the right size bike......................
I mean seriously if you need a longer post, have to run the seat all the back and a stem that long, it's too small.
Believe it or not Mildred is comfortably within Surly's recommended rider height for this bike...
Women usually have longer legs remember?
Hi Jeremy, I'm 6 foot 4" with 38"(!!) inseam, riding XL Primal Pro 2018 with 495mm ST. That bike comes stock with 150mm dropper. Without a dropper, I could not ride this bike using 400mm seatpost. (SP gives 30cm+ST 49,5cm=79,5cm, inseam 96,5cm. There is no 570mm seat post on the market) Seems to me this Surly is similarly designed for dropper user, however comes without it. Not the best solution and I could use a bigger bike, but as in Surly's case, my bike and many other XL's with similar size are rated for 6feet 4" riders. Longer, lower, slacker has it's consequences, that no one talks about :-) So You might actually be wrong, but the bike is clearly not designed the best way, yet so many others aren't too.
@Polish guy with hard to spell name ;-p
This bike is not exactly dropper friendly, or long, low, or slack. 70-71 degree head angle, 60mm BB drop and the seatpost is 27.2mm. I don't think there is even routing for an internal dropper. It's a bikepacker, tourer, commuter, not a hardcore hardtail.
The seat tube lengths are pretty "normal" and the stock build comes with a 350mm seatpost. The seat tube on a large is 508mm, and on an XL it's 558. This bike is just really really small.
some people like smaller bikes some like bigger, me i could get away with a medium but i like riding a large
Custom framebag, Surly 24 Pack Rack up front with a sizable porteur bag, Velo Orange Mojave oversized bottle cage for the underside of the downtube, Anything cages for the fork blades, and some ergo grips (PDW Cork Chops, perhaps?). At least, that's how I'm running mine at the moment. I love the Bridge Club!
I patiently await your follow-up review after putting this bike through its paces. I really like the simplicity of this bike, and it's one of the touring bikes I'm favoring at this moment. Thanks!
Hey Bruin, sorry for the late reply - my first instalment was uploaded to the website a while back: www.bikeradar.com/reviews/bikes/touring-bikes/surly-bridge-club-long-term-review/
Second instalment coming soon :)
I have a Surly Bridge Club that I use for commuting and bikepacking which I love. I have made some changes to the bike such as a Surly Moloko bar with the Moloko bag, shorter stem, zero offset seatpost, Surly 8-pack rack up front with a petite Porteur house bag and a Topeak rack out back. I also did swap out the crank and BB with a Sram GX 2x to lighten things up as well as some WTB Trail Boss 2.4 tires. Hope you have as much fun on your BC as I do!
how tall are U? and what is Your frame size? did u have some spacers on staring tube? i'm 184cm tall, don't know which one would fit me better: L or XL
@@bladerunner_92 I am 175cm tall and my frame is a medium. I do have 5, 10mm spacers on my steerer and a 60mm stem. In the stock configuration, the bike came with a 90mm stem and an offset seatpost which was really uncomfortable for me which is why I went with a new stem and seatpost. I'd recommend test riding one.
Excellent video! Thank you so much. And I love your hair.
Beautiful ride for a Beautiful rider! Good video.
I'd add dynamo lighting to your kit build. It's pretty useful for touring and commuting. I've used it on my Surly for many years without issues.
Good video
Thanks for making it :)
I love surly
Love the way you explain it. I am great fan of surly but I don't have it now coz it's expensive. But man it's smooth. Thanks for explaining live your love.
Looks like a great winter commute bike, be safe out there!
It was perfect for our recent bout of snow :)
What I like is the wheel size range. You can keep two sets of wheelset with you, one for deep heavy gravel and 700 for more speed. Nice! First thing, FENDERS, FENDERS, FENDERS!
velo orange randonneur front rack and randonneur handlebar bag, tailfin rear rack w/ tailfin paniers, tailfin cargo cages on forks, kinect seat post, redshift stem and bars, custom full frame bag, profile designs triathalon double water bottle cage behind brooks saddle, lrg metal bottles on forks, pump on rear forks, sunlite generator hub, kenda 45 gravel tires w/ liners and slime tubes..
Looks like a great bike! I ride the Surly ECR 😁. Peace ✌️ and Love 💕 from Tucson Arizona Desert 🏜️
They're great bikes, and along with the Salsa Journeyman, they're bringing adventure touring bikes down in price, which is really cool. People are stressing on the Gnot Boost, but it's not a new standard, just a way to accommodate more than one existing hub standard in the frame. I always advocate mudguards (maybe the SKS Bluemels 75 U?). Maybe front lowrider racks for two panniers up front (Tubus Duo?) and a large saddlebag at the rear for the Scotland trip? (If you have to get off and walk the bike up anything steep, rear panniers won't bump into the backs of your thighs.) With a framebag as well? The WTB She saddle looks good, but I love the Comfort Comp (or Sport version). I'd also love to try some Schwalbe Supermoto 27.5x2.8 slicks on it. Not light at all, but comfortable for rolling around on mixed terrain rides with some puncture protection.
I saw an all black medium SBC in person today and like the more plus tire road bike looking model more.
I've invested a little in my XL Bridge Club and swapped in:
Sram X9 clutched RD
Surly Moloko bars with the shortest stem from the bin
TRP Spyke mech disc brakes front and rear (the most necessary upgrade)
Schwalbe G-One Speed 27.5 x 2.35 (calipers read 2.5 on stock wheels) tubeless
Planet Bike Cascadia ALX 29er fenders (that baaarely cover the rubber)
Surly 24-Pack rack (to pair with my ILE Porteur bag)
Carradice Audax saddlebag and Bagman support (for the essentials i.e., raincape, Voile straps, Kindle, and the usual kit)
Salsa Anything HD cages around the fork and downtube (mostly for carrying beer growlers)
Brooks Cambium C17 All-Weather (second most critical upgrade cuz padding sucks)
Next will be a new 1x crankset and modern bottom bracket (sold with the seriously obsolete Powerspline tech) and rear shifter. One day I'll get setup with Dynamo lighting on this "Divingboard Blue" baby as I've been spoiled with a Shutter Precision hub and Edelux II on my other ride.
All told, it's the most fun I've ever had on a bike. Mostly commuting, urban exploring, and some fireroad riding in PDX, it makes me attack curbs, get air, and slow down to hit every dirt path and alley off the main road that I can find.
Sounds like a great setup!
Hey Dane Larson, so I have a bridge club, XL size, and it so happens to be my first disc brake bike. I've gotta be honest, so far, I am NOT impressed with disc brake tech at all. It has not been worth the hype... the bike itself, is AWESOME. But the disc brakes are killing my love for this bike. Now, I know that the tektro brakes that come on it are crap lol, but have your TRP Spyke brakes really made that much of a difference? (My local shop is highly recommending the TRP spikes, saying how much more reliable and problem free they're gonna be.) I've had to have my disc calipers reworked about 4 times in the last month for readjusting etc as well as through my own carelessness, have both rotors trued cuz I dinged em on something. I was led to believe that disc brakes and their rotors were supposed to be more bombproof than they are. Otherwise I woulda just stuck with another bike that has good old rim brakes... so, do you think some better calipers and higher quality rotors will solve my problem? Or are these kinds of problems(that being rotors that are very fragile, and touchy calipers that constantly need readjusting) just the norm, and what I should be getting used to?
With the saddle placement and spacers stacked under the stem, it sure looks like it's simply too small for you?
I remember when we used to call these mountain bikes back in the days. How times have changed. Lol
Really wish more bike companies would offer this style of bike. I love the fully rigid, large volume (but not quite fat) tire bikes. They embody the old essence of mountain biking, which is getting out and exploring off road
They use quick release axles instead of thru axles for better availability around the world and then they put 141mm axle, which only exists for 3 years now maybe. Really? 🙄😔
It's bullsh*t.
141 QR "boost" literally a new standard made by Surly. They just can't ever be bothered to stop making QR bikes.
@@smalerider1727 Not sure on this, but I think Marin was the first brand with this stuff. And QR itself isn't wrong, what is wrong is the availability. How many QR hubs have we seen that uses 141 or 138mm spacing? Not much and we don't even talk about the third world countries..
I know about Gnot Boost, but i've seen 141 QR boost on DT Swiss hubs, i9 hubs, the Trek Roscoe uses it etc. Was it really Surly who came up with it?
You have to send it off from a pretty high drop to worry about snapping a QR skewer. It's only happened once to me in many years of riding bikes.
Beautiful bike!!!
Love me some Surly! Just got a 2020 Ice Cream Truck and did a couple CZcams vids on it!
as saddle, seatpost and stem is basically maxed out, why didn't you go with a bigger frame. So it just looks like it's the wrong size for you.
This bike may be my next project. I am a bit torn, however. The 700c version has much on it that I would have put on myself. Nonetheless, I was kinda’ planning upon building up from a frame. It may be that building from the stock build makes monetary sense.
1x10. I was already thinking about Deore, which is what the stock build includes. The crankset would have to go. Probably a Shimano Zee - it’s 10-speed. New BB.
Tektro M275? Nope. This isn’t kindergarten. I have a set of lightly-used Deore M6000 brakes. They’re great. I tend to prefer flat pedals on flat bar bikes. I like XT 8040 flats. Front & rear rack.
The stock tires may be OK. It might be worth trying.
I suppose I should finish my current gravel build before I go ahead with a new project.
Sweet bike! Just came across this bike today on the surly website. And also your video. Well, always been a lifelong biker. Getting back into it the past few years. Traditional for me, I would go with the 3 ring front sprocket. That's just me. But yes, I do want to test out a 1x9 or 1x10 setup. Tires? I hear schwalbe makes good backpacking tires. Ont he surly website, looks like they either have 700c or offroad setup.
Prefer a smaller frame for more clearance? That’s fine but maybe a quick release seat post clamp or telescopic post for various trails.
Surly bikes are cool.
Ride the heck out of it. You will figure out what you need over time.
add Jones loop bars and fenders?..
Anyway, back to kitting-out....Brick Lane porter front rack with a Carradice Nelson Longflap, Restrap cockpit bag and handlebar holster for your Instagram camera.
On the rear, a rack with some of the smaller Alpkit panniers, leaving room on the top for extras and beer. If you're going to go to the US for the bike and ignore what the UK has to offer, e.g. the Genesis Vagabond, then you should at least "bag it up" all British?
135mm hub does not need ”an adapter” and there is no such thing as ”an adapter” for making it single speed. It is called a chain tensioner. No points for sounding like a rookie.
Nice compact bike. 👍🏼
I would give it some WTB SlickThicks so it has the least rolling resistance and I would ride it in the Utah National monuments area
Parks and recreation reference - this bike should be called Li'l Sebastian :-)
So, the reach is a lot closer for size XS? Well, I think it's better to swap for a drop bar in it.
Maybe try the spesh mimic saddle?
It looks like it will be difficult to fit a rear rack on that frame. Are you going to try and use one?
I agree with you, it looks very tricky. I'd like to try at some point later down the line but I'm sticking to a front rack for now :)
1x 10-50 eagle gx. short stem , different bars.
The XS size geometry is almost identical to Marin Four Corners size XS. So, I guess I can swap it with dropbar..
So it's 80's mountainbike in modern speck? Right?
80's mountain bikes were way more fun to ride than the new stuff. Yeah, you can get crazier on the new stuff, but that has never been my thing anyway. I prefer to think of it as "hiking" on a bike: cover more ground, more fun to ride than walk, faster, more challenging. I actually wish more companies made bikes like this one. I have a hardtail XC mountain bike and a gravel bike set up for more off-road than on. I'm strongly considering the Bridge Club. It could almost take the place of both my bikes for the kind of riding I do, I think. Unfortunately, I do prefer drop handlebars most of the time... so, we'll see.
Is it me or does the geometry looks weird? Look at all those steerer spacers!
90s mtb were perfect in every sense for non sports use or we can say daily use bike and touring bike.
Never understood the pricing of their bikes,,,,I can buy a used Raleigh or Norco and do the exact specs for less. Which I do anyways. :D Cromoly FTW!
What's your height for a XS frame ?
nice to see a review for a bike that isnt > $10k like some other youtube channel
no removable derailleur hanger? is that normal?
Yes, on a steel bike that's perfectly fine. I've yet to bend the hanger on my Cross Check, and trust me, it's not for lack of trying. :D
I bent the hanger on my Krampus on the second ride. Bent it back. So far, so good.
Great bike. What ist the name of the color?
whats the deal with the horrid routing of the front mech cable?
I had prefer 29 wheel with 3 inch clearance and boost with thru axle front and back.
Would love to know your height, as I'm a short rider and wonder which size would fit best!
Could this bike ride 26 inch, 650b and 700c wheels?
Yep, maximum tyre clearance for 26x3 inch, 650b x 2.8inch and 700 x 47c :)
I'm a fan of Surly's ethos, but making a bike that can accept all those wheel sizes - as long as you can work your way around the weird rear hub size - seems self defeating. Lovely colour though.
What's weird about 135mm QR? Afaik that also fits.
Jochen Kraus It’s 141mm QR *not* 135mm.
According to Surly's frame spec, both will fit.
"Gnot-Boost" 138mm
10 x 135mm or 10 x 141mm
Hello, I am a small rider and this is the kind of bike I am looking for. Could you tell me your height? Thank you
Sorry for the late reply! I'm 156cm :)
@@mildredlocke5374 thank you! It´s a little bit hard for me measure this bike brand. There are not dealers where I live and I have to measure by eye.
The cable routing of the front derailleur looks ugly.
Dropper post!
Brompton do longer seatposts
throw on a one by make nx eagle
Surly has some bad logic about QR hubs. Who cares if QR are widely available, that would only apply to road hubs not their odd hub. Thru axels replaced QR because they were getting destroyed when MTB'ing and don't play nice with disc brakes. Additionally if you are busting thru axels, you should just stop riding bikes.
£1 3 0 0 quid!!!! Seriously?
The boomerang-shaped frames for short people are very ugly.
yuk
I tried three times to hear what you said about the gearing, but your words run together so fast and slurred that I just gave up. I'll go to their website.
Not very good looking
What a load of nonsense with the hub standard. Honestly stop inventing new standards. On touring bikes in particular.
Besides it needs a drop bar to be a proper touring bike.
drop bar with fat tyres? u'r an idiot.
Mr. Green, if you haven't tried it, you're a fool. Its rad.
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