Surly Bike Owners

As I don’t have a disc brakes road bike at the moment I thought I’d give the wheelset I’ve got an airing. A pointless exercise to be fair, but why not. As the roads are so shit round here at the minute it’s slower with 25s than with 40s, but I knew that anyway. They’re hanging back up now.

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Yeah anything smaller than 35s just doesn’t look right does it, like a mountain bike with slick tires.

What’s with the tap around the top the the chain stays / top tube ?

TBH even the 40s look a bit lost in there.
The tapes there to stop bag rub. Spesh burra burra seat bags have a bloody metal ring that hit the clamp and the bag itself runs to stays with a short post. I did this on our last trip and keep forgetting to change it for clear stuff. I should have just put the bag on Liz’s bike ;)

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Here is my Surly Cross Check. Dura Ace 7900 (brifters + derailleurs) and 9100 (cranks), Mavic Aksium wheels with Tufo Gravel Speedero tyres, Zipp stem + bars, Ritchey carbon forks with custom paint, TRP CX 8.4 brakes. (The Pro PLT seatpost underperformed and has been replaced by a Ritchey trail.)
Brilliant bike, super comfortable yet reasonably light. Gift from my wife and children for my 50th birthday!

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Nice work and welcome to the Surlys for 50th birthdays club.

My Cross Check out doing errands after it’s first cross race the night before.

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Anyone after a 56cm Pack Rat?

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Midnight Special owners, I’ve got a question.
I’ve been offered the lone of a set of these;
https://www.halowheels.com/shop/wheels/mtb/vapour-35-wheels-27-5-stealth-finish/
With some 2.25” tyres to see it I want to go that way for winter trails.
They have a 15x100 front axle, halo do an adapter tube to bring the hole size down to 12mm, but will they play nicely with the forks?
As they would be winging there way to me via a chain of friends and returning them would mean the same, I want to know they’ll work before I say yes.
Cheers ta.

The midnight Special takes tyres up to 2,35 I believe. 30mm inner rim diameter is a bit wide for 2.25 tyres but shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers, yeah I think the size of tyre vs rim vs frame is ok, but I was worried about the axle interface. I’m not sure the surly through adapter and the halo one will work in their fork? If I just had to get the adapter I’d order it now, but the wheels are 100miles away :D

The adapter is just a tube.
I would ask your friend to measure the outside diameter of the axle interface of the hub and you can measure the inside of the fork dropouts. Then you you know for sure it will fit.

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If you've not seen it already, Halo's page about their 15mm-12mm sleeve has some useful information about compatibility with fork dropouts.
https://www.halowheels.com/shop/spares/hub-spares/15-to-12mm-adaptor-sleeve/

Also, some Halo hubs allow the endcaps to be swapped. Worth checking if this is the case for your prospective hub.

Bugger! The fork has a lip at 19mm, oh well.
Looks like I need a hub with swappable end caps then…
…had another look and I think the ends are swappable :)

I ran 2.3" Ehlines on my MS for a while, but they rubbed on the chain stays fairly badly, particularly with any riding out of the saddle. I'd say 2.1 is really the widest you could comfortably go if you want to do any off road riding.

Guess it would depend on the profile, but the Ehlines were too wide. Had them on Hunt Trail wide rims.

That’s put that one the bin then. But ta, I’ll need clearance so will look for something a bit narrower then.

Rutlands? Not sure how wide they come up, but worth a look. The Sparwoods were great for dry weather and road, but pretty useless in the wet.

I give them a look, tbh I was only going BIG because a mate had them on rims etc that I could try. I’ll never ‘need’ such a huge tyre for anything I’ll do. I’ll need clearance for the SFAB more.

Sooooo if I was gonna put a FGFS fork onto a roller which measurements would I have to match up to make sure it looked good?

Axle to crown and rake

Thanks. Appreciated. I saw that pink roller with a FGFS fork and wanted to rip off that look.

Robin said that's an all city fork. All all city forks I saw would be too long though. I guess you end up with something a bit more slack. Identiti makes the shortest a-c fgfs style fork I was able to find but its longer still.

That’s the roller I was talking about. Thanks so much for the info. Had no idea fork length was variable. Thought if it said 700 it would do. Ngl I’m neither fast nor doing tricks. I just want to roll over whatever potholes glasgow city centre throws my way.

Just out of interest is this about looks? I am running the original forks with 38mm gravel tyres and it’s a pleasure to roll over anything on and off road.

Shamefully yes. Curved fork blades….I really like when bicycles are a collection of nicely shaped triangles either real or imagined. (Will suffer round wheels however).

Haha, nothing wrong with that. I guess the shortest one you can find is the Identiti FFX-45 700C FIXIE FORK. There is a disc version as well. Some people also run the all city big block forks. They look a bit more classic but with straight legs. Limits the tyre clearance though.