Who Has A Surly Cross Check?

[malkin]

I love mine too.
The only thing I'd change is to have more time to spend riding it.

[OakLeaf]

I'm thinking about one of those for my hill country commuter. I'd want to swap a bunch of stuff out, but the LBS says it's still probably more economical to swap it, than to build it up from a bare frameset.

I rode one around the block in jeans and sneakers, a size too big which is what they had in stock, just to get a feel for the geometry and the bar-end shifters. I was surprised how easy the shifters were.

Hmmmmm.

[Owlie]

I'd love one as a winter bike/commuter/unpaved path bike--if I bought one, I'd probably swap out a few things because I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself with the bar-end shifters. And perhaps dress the black up a bit.

[Velocivixen]

I was worried about the bar end shifters too, but surprisingly, they weren't bad. The 52 bike has longer handled brakes vs the smaller sizes, so I wonder if brake levers are easy to change?

[malkin]

The bar ends are a piece of cake, but I'm old and grew up with down tube friction shifters. Brewer also set me up with short reach brake levers and super-grannyfied the gearing.