** Surly Karate Monkey **

[velofrog]

New stem arrived, a polished silver 90mm Kalloy from eBay!
It’s actually very nicely finished and looks great fitted…. the cost…. how does £15.88 posted sound!

 

[Lickskillet]

I’m very much in favor of everything you’ve done with this bike. Those cranks are superb and the ti cog is just nuts. What size tires are you running? Looks like 29plus.

 

[velofrog]

Yeah I didn’t do a very good job of this thread, sorry.
Most of the parts were swapped over from my Stooge MkV build…. the details can be found in that build thread (link in signature).
The wheels are 27.5+ and the tyres 3.0", they do look pretty chunky until it’s side by side with my Trek Farley!

Here’s the build spec:

Frame and Fork: Surly Karate Monkey large in High Fibre Green
Brakes: Magura MT8 Raceline with MDR-P 203 and 180mm rotors
Wheels: Hope Pro 4 laced to DT Swiss XM521 27.5 32 hole rims
Tyres: Teravail Coronado 27.5x3.0
Headset: Chris King
Bottom Bracket: Chris King
Cranks: Middleburn RS8 X-type 170mm
Chainring: Middleburn UNO X-type 32t
Pedals: DMR Vault
Seatpost: Thomson Masterpiece
Saddle: Brooks Swift Titanium
Saddle bag: Brooks Challenge
Handlebars: Paschier Gump 760 Bamboo
Grips: Ergon GC1 Biokork
Stem: Kalloy 90mm
Seatpost clamp: DWard Designs Titanium
Singlespeed: XTR 12 speed chain on Absolute Black 20t cog
Geared: XTR 12 speed shifter, mech, chain and cassette
Titanium King Cage
Titanium spacers and bottle bolts

 

[velofrog]

Couple of pics with the AB cog after selling on the fancy Boone ti, was lovely but extravagant when the AB cog was already in the parts bin!

Also fitted the stem cap I got for Xmas from my stepdaughter.

 

[velofrog]

Have a pair of these incoming

Spied them on CRC down from £44.99 to £9.99…. 27.5 x 3.0 lightweight and tubeless ready…. would have been rude not to!

 

[velofrog]

Geared up the wagon and had a lovely afternoon pedal with a little hiking thrown in when the track disappeared and turned to bog!

Was cracking weather too and not far from home, a wee place called Shawbost.

 

[velofrog]

Looks a bit different with its new black shoes on….



and a wee test run out round the Lews Castle ground trails

 

[velofrog]

Couple of photos from my ride out yesterday and a link to a ride thread over on Macretro if you’re interested in some views of Harris

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/show-us-what-you-did-today-thread.141243/page-674

 

[Duggee]

That's lovely, the seat and silver parts really suit the frame colour

 

[velofrog]