Surly Bike Owners

My very early 1x1

A couple of my builds (teaberry) and a borrowed ride early last year

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My Surly CrossCheck clocked 20,000 miles this morning. It's gone through 3 sets of Phil Wood bearing in the rear hub in that time. I started recording miles against on strava at the start of November 2015.

Edit, I was going to upload a photo, but it keeps failing.

Use imgur, I wanna see

Dreadful Photo, but you get the idea. The notorious Surly decals got washed off bit, but bit.

and I'm embarrassed to say that seat post is seized seatpost :( but its at the right height :)

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@M_V Seen yours before. Probably my favourite 1x1. Bars are ace.
@andy_k Like the pink! 650b? Jones bars and middleburns make me feel slightly better about the Orlowski forks I've just ordered...

Cheers, the bullmoose were a bit long for it so back to normal bar and stem now.

What kind of forks?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRjKfcplVWt/?taken-by=uphill.downdale

Curved blade, canti and rack mounts and this crown

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Sweet. What hanger did you use to bodge gears on there?
@M_V That's a shame. I like the Nitto ones but £££ and I've got a Salsa stem I've been saving

Not mine I'm afraid! A nice build by a guy in manc

Spent the morning dialing in the fit on my Ogre.

Looks great!

Thanks!

Feels good too now.

Yeah, climbed well with the 2.4a but not quite so nice in the corners. diameter of the horizons behaved better even if the tyres themselves sucked.

Will stick to 26 when I do it up again.

My old 1x1 from a few years back. fun bike. got me into riding off road again.

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Keep those 1x1s coming, bloody love 'em!

Readers.

This is ny favourite setup for my cross check yet.

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Anybody got a spare pair of canti studs knocking about? I think they're specific to Surly frames and use a 1mm pitch.

Unsure if the studs are actually specific size or not. Thought it was a fairly standardised part through the bicycle industry on modern frames.

Brixton bikes might be worth trying, also worth a go is http://www.charliethebikemonger.com he might have some take-offs in a box somewhere.

I can take a photo of mine against a ruler for scale but they are from a 2011 spec Karate Monkey, i don't have anything else to screw them into to check size and fitment.
Sorry but keeping mine as i can run any wheelset.

I'd be surprised if they were proprietary.

There are 2 threads that are commonly used I think, m8 and m10 maybe.

Your lbs will probably have a few sets of studs kicking about the workshop somewhere that you try.

Ok so I had a look and the 1mm pitch might make them a bit harder to come by, seems most are 1.25mm pitch but I found these ti ones,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gobike88-Titanium-V-brake-Pivot-Post-M10XP1-0X8mm-64Ti-B98/151159232979?hash=item2331cad9d3:g:0LQAAOxykYtSJhPS

These,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PAIR-BRAKE-BOSS-PIVOT-FRAME-POST-BOLT-MOUNT-V-BRAKE-CANTI-M8-M10-BOLTS-STUDS/301105415619?hash=item461b4805c3:m:m_G9rUcUPHWFmvIqaHL4pmg

are 1.25mm pitch for the m8 version and 1mm pitch for the m10 ones. And they are 1/3 the price of the ti ones and UK stock so won't take 3 months to get to you.

Only ones i can see on SJS 99p each in M10 or M8
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/brakes/m10-d2o-vbrake-pivot-screw-each/

I almost ruined the threads on my frame to force a generic (1.25 I'm guessing - the seller didn't specify) m10 in. A quick Google and I came up with this
http://forums.mtbr.com/surly/thread-holding-surly-ogre-brake-bosses-861821.html
I hadn't even clocked that there were different standards. Oh wait this is the bike industry...
Anyway cheers for the link @M_V I've ordered a pair to try. I will report back presently.