100% Real. Custom Surly Pacer

Continuing our greatest hits resurrected from the ashes of our old website; here's a drop-dead gorgeous Surly Pacer we built in 2013. The client was after a classic all-weather steel road bike, and this Pacer delivered.

Build Highlights

• Sram Rival groupset with Apex levers (no carbon fiber on this bike!)
• Chris King headset (of course)
• Tune Mig/Mag hubs laced to H+Son Archetype rims with Sapim CX-Ray spokes
• Custom Black-anodized Honjo hammered fenders, made in Japan, blacked out in PDX.
• Yokozuna Cable Housing, ZIPP Bar, Thomson stem and post, Brooks Cambium saddle

Surly Disc Dirt Speed Trucker

We like the Surly Disc Trucker, but sometimes feel the sweet geometry of this big stable sled is hampered by the overtly robust build. Sure, it's great if you're touring to Tierra del Fuego or Outer Mongolia, but for so many folks Truckin' around Portland, the bike is a little pokier than it oughtta be. So we took a 54cm 26" wheel Trucker frame and shod it with slightly larger 650b wheels and some big fast cushy 650x2.0 tires. Also, hydraulic brakes for when you're trucking a little fast. It ended up not so-heavy and way more fun to jam around town (and maybe on dirt) than the standard Disc Trucker. Sure you might want more gears and heavier duty bits if you're going to the end of the Earth but for sporty daylong expeditions on roads with any kind of surface this is stable fast and fun. This was a shop build done in Fall 2014 and sold sometime thereafter.

Build Highlights

• Downtube Shifters and 2x10 drivetrain with 1x1 low gear.
• TRP Hylex full hydraulic brakes
• Shimano/DT Swiss 650b wheelset
• Custom decal treatment

Capturing the Zeitgeist - a semi-custom Surly Straggler

Sometimes there's not too much you'd need to change to make a bike sublime. Maybe it just needs some extra stuff. We know a thing or three about making the devilish details all click together in to a cohesive package of add ons. Witness this Surly, built for commuting and light touring but up to snuff for some more rugged expeditions on unpaved rail-trails or semi-abandoned dirt roads.

Build Highlights-

• Stock 56cm Surly Straggler, re-badged with Surly Pacer font decals.
• Globe front mini-porteur and Salsa Down Under pannier racks, with custom light bracket.
• Shimano Alfine dynamo hub powering a B+M Luxos U with USB accessory charging port
• Brooks Cambium saddle and Norfolk panniers