Frame Models
In 2005, Surly began selling the Pugsley, the first mass-produced mountain bike with extremely large volume tires, up to 4 inches wide, for deep snow and sand riding. The front and rear wheels share a common hub size and can be interchanged, allowing for redundancy and additional gearing combinations. Noted bicycle technical authority Sheldon Brown said, "Pugsley is, in its way, as revolutionary as the original mountain bikes were in the early 1980s." Bicycling Magazine wrote, "It's not ideal for everyday use, but it can handle a wide variety of demands and conditions well."
In 2006 Surly introduced the Big Dummy, a longtail bike frame designed for the Xtracycle Free Radical extension that can carry 200 lbs of gear in addition to a 200 lb rider.
Other Surly bikes include:
- 1x1: single-speed mountain bike
- Steamroller: single-speed bicycle
- Pacer: road racing bike
- Cross-Check: cyclo-cross bicycle
- Long Haul Trucker: touring bicycle
- Disc Trucker: touring bicycle w/ disc brakes
- Trucker Deluxe: a Long Haul Trucker with S and S Bicycle Torque Couplings, allowing it to be disassembled for travel (available as frameset, with 26-inch wheels only)
- Troll: mountain/touring/commuter bike with 26-inch wheels
- Karate Monkey: 29er mountain bike
- Ogre: 29er mountain and touring bicycle.
- Krampus: due to be released November 2012, 29er mountain bike with 3inch tires on 50mm rims
- Moonlander: accommodates wide 4.7" tires on 100mm rims
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