After over two decades, Surly moved the Cross-Check frameset from their standard lineup of bikes to the ‘Legacy Lineup’ of their website. Surly confirmed that the bike is no longer in production and is unlikely to come back.
If you haven’t owned this gravel/cyclocross/touring/whatever bike yourself, you likely know someone who has. The Surly Cross-Check was the egalitarian choice in cycling, simultaneously someone’s utilitarian dream bike that was attainable and sold at a fair price.
The end of the Cross-Check marks the bike’s reign as the most bike that ever biked, the go-to way to make a pile of parts you hoarded in the corner of your garage into a functioning bicycle, and the defacto option that a bike nerd could happily ride and recommend to their non-bikey friends all the same.
@tk@cycling@mastobikes@mhoye Aw, dang. I rejoined the cycling world 12 or 13 years ago on a black Cross Check. I loved it unreservedly, and kept it in my garage for years after I rode it regularly— it got displaced by lighter, shinier bikes — mostly out of sentimental reasons.
I finally sold it last year to a math grad student who rides it nearly every day.
@luccamerel Thanks for asking! She’s doing great! Keeping her head straight, turning over and trying to crawl, making sounds and trying to mimick our lips movements! She’s also growing fast and getting heavier every day!🥰 And she’s only 3 months old!😱😁
Na jakiej mapie online (albo w apce) najlepiej szukać szlaków turystycznych, które są na kolorowo namazane na drzewach w lasach?
Co i rusz przy hasłach w Wikipedii dotyczących np. rezerwatów czy pomników przyrody trafiam na info w rodzaju „dojazd żółtym szlakiem”, ale którędy ten szlak prowadzi i jak się na niego dostać?
Mapy, które znalazłem zawierają zazwyczaj tylko informacje o dłuższych trasach, a ja szukam raczej info o lokalnych.
Z kolei Lasy Państwowe mają spoko mapę leśnych dróg, ale na niej nie widać, które naprawdę nadają się dla turystyki rowerowej, a przez które przedostanie się tylko traktor czy harvester.
@chrishuck@tk@cycling@mastobikes
As a Swiss elite cycling racer told me once: cx is one hour of freezing, suffering and going way over your limits. So a perfect winter work out.
Mostly did road racing before the pandemic paused the season so I tried solo TT racing then tried CX which felt like it had the best of all worlds going for it.
First ever CX race was on a custom built 90s Hardrock MTB with drop bars. Fell over 3 times, had fun, and am in my third season of it.