While the industry cousins of Surly and Salsa don’t like to be talked about in the same sentence, it makes sense to group them together here as both brands are imported by those fine fellows at Ison Distribution. Let’s start with Surly then:
The venerable Karate Monkey must be ten years old now and one of the earliest production 29ers. In honour of that, it gets a nice paint job in spangly blue.
Surly is good at making tyres to suit its bikes. Or more the other way round. OK, so it's a leeeetle tight in there... 'Bass boat green' apparently It's a Surly. Of course you can run it as a singlespeed. The rules say that you must press the squidgy bits. No one can resist! Big and bigger. Here's the 4.8in Bud tyre. The production 48NRTH winter boot. With real Monster Fur lining Here's the Salsa Mukluk in a very slimming orange colour. Here's a Salsa Horsethief 2. Check the new Singletrack for our own take on the Horsethief. It seems that there’s been a splintering of fat bike niches. They’re not just being used for epic 300 mile winter races, there are now two hour and six hour snow (and sand) races going on, so Salsa has developed a super-light, no frills fat racer. The Beargrease has no extra rack bosses, has a custom E13 crank, a tapered alloy fork (720g) and a 3.6lb frame for an all-up weight of 28lbs. It’ll come complete, or as a frameset.
Fast fat racing. It's new. It's even anodised rather than painted for lighter weight 
Custom, light, but fat fork Here's the business end of the 45NRTH Husker Du tyre. Must... squidge... Custom super-wide cranks from E13. 45NRTH is also coming out with a range of spiked tyres, with everything from commuters to fat ice boots. They're being touted for snow racers, but we can see these 45NRTH slimline pedals gaining popularity with flat pedal XC riders. The regular thick snow pedal and the thin Helva pedal.
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Yum.
likey likey VERY NICE
Beargrease! Want one! Don’t know what for, but I want one!
Munchie likie Karate Monkey 2 blue. I’d buy that for a dollar!
I assume that’s 3″ tyres on an Ogre?
More like 2.5in I reckon. Sorry for the confusion 🙂
Oh god, phat tyres, squidgey bits and flats! Heaven. drool. drool.
Is that the new Alpkit frame bag on the Mukluk?
That’s a Revelate bag on the Mukluk. Salsa get a load made for them and they are available through Ison.
Thank goodness for Salsa & Surly. Not many mainstream companies making interesting stuff like this.
New Horsethief looks all smooth and curvy. Me likey.
Still no Cross Check disc?
That’s a shame.
The horsethief would fit into my bluebikes collection very nicely – fun trail to ride too!
“Beargrease! Want one! Don’t know what for, but I want one!”
UK cycle commuting?? Potholes? What potholes?
And you can ride right over the top of the cars…