Price: £2.100.00 as tested. Frameset £800.00 / From: Ison Distribution, ison-distribution.com
Surly has always been individual and self-confident in its outlook. From pioneering the first production singlespeed (the 1x1, which pre-dated even Kona’s Unit and the On One Inbred) to popularising one of the first 29ers (2001’s Karate Monkey), Surly has always been focused on the fringes of the cycling world, even when those fringes encompass ‘just riding your bike and doing fun stuff’.
Surly has always prided itself in its no-nonsense 4130 cromoly steel frames, always made to accept the biggest tyres possible and to be as compatible as possible with as many of those components that you have lying around in the shed.