So Dr. Seuss also designed questionable bike frames apparently.
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you know what? i’m glad that it exists, because until now nobody had made my perfect bicycle nemesis.
They’ve always been your nemesis, but they have just now revealed themselves.
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it’s been slowly congealing out of the aether for the last decade or so. I assume there’s a lot of really drippy ad copy that goes along with it, about exploring things and having wanderlust?
At speed
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Lots of talk about how they shred on singletrack. Sure they do.
Also lots of talk about how modern bikes suck. Sure they do.
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How did you guess?
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remember when you had to deflate your tire to clear your road brake calipers?
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It’s like if one dude at your office wears black jeans and only listens to death metal, but somehow your whole office culture is based around his identity. It makes no sense.
This is an amazing analogy. Really captures the essence of what they’re going for.
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Oh look they call their home page the “Front Porch,” and their price list “Damage.” That’s edgy. And their social media is on a page called “Transmissions.” So snarky.
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Sounds like someone would rather be on the back porch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvnBmKXB5Ek
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I tried looking up who was the “team” or “creators” or “squad” or whatever the fuck they call the people behind the brand but could only get through clicking a couple of those before giving up.
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That wouldn’t be opaque enough for these rad dudes. For instance, the copy for this thing:
“Vague school lunch milk carton vibes. Named after the spring peepers that live in the pond where we get our drinking water. Get bars close, and higher. Tougher than a boiled owl.“
Cool guys to be around!
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Lol
What is a Moonshiner? A rowdy sniggle shred sled? A diggle whip designed to dominate rocky roads? A ride-camp-ride mule-foot machine? Yes.
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This is a very obtuse way to say “rides like a LHT” - did someone graduate from Surly’s marketing dept?
Bonus at the end:
They really missed out on selling me a bike without pneumatic tires as a throwback to some 1880s geometry. Was the motivation of this bike “Surly ECR, but Wright-Brothers-core bespoke”?
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I’ve heard solid tires never flat.
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I kinda figured that the kind of dopey milennial dude who gets suckered by this kind of stuff had to have either wised up or run out of money by now - there are still people buying winsome Mumford And Sons type shit like this?
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Riding a fatbiek down a washed-out, rocky snowmobile track in spring with 65lb of gear seems like the least fun thing I could think to buy a purpose-built bike for. Why does each of these bikes stress the ability to carry a tremendous amount of gear on very stiff frame? On the rare occasion I hit a chill trail on the way home from a double grocery store and bulk goods run on my 8-5-8 buttway gravgrav bike (as I did today) , I hardly notice the frame flex with at least #35 lb of shopping. While I understand that some tiny minority of nude-beaching-going people sets off on around-the-world tour with 120lb of gear, I was under the impression that the latest trend in bikepacky softgoods, as marketed on the Radavist, was to bring less shit so you could be nimble in the backcountry. The whole schtick of the Tanglefoot crew seems to be out-turdly-ing Surly, to allow you to live out your fantasies of being a turn-of-the-century wheelbarrow operator with the heaviest , stiffest bike to haul a massive amount of gear across a boulder field. Who are they trying to sell to? Who wakes up in the morning and thinks " Shit, I want to carry half my body weight in gear across this talus slope, and I need to spend $3800 on a frameset to do it"?
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All those back-to-the-land , bespoke hatchet and $600 cast-iron millenials are just turning fash now.
Mumf and Sonz banjo player just got called out by his bandmates for sympathizing with Andy Ngo/ Patriot Prayer.
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