Bikes & FramesParts & AccessoriesGearDealersThe Information HoleBlog

I uploaded a @YouTube video http://t.co/VDz87Ss4 Deer Surly

Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Flickr Fly

Previous Posts

Skip Bernet's avatar

We’re going to sex you up - hub style.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

posted by Skip Bernet

When the glaciers retreated from the last ice age, Surly collectively toweled off, slapped on some Brut, and beheld a vision of a single speed future. To that end, we offered single speed products when those were hard to find, expensive, or both. One of our earliest sets of bits was a pair of 1x1 mountain hubs designed to work with a single bmx freewheel. They were pretty cool. From there, the component designing gloves came off and we gut punched about a million more options (as long as they were single speed) into being. From high spoke count polo…