Pics from Surly website-go sue my ass! :D
I like the look of this bike, looks to me like a bike somewhere half way between the Krampus and the Ice Cream Truck (ICT),
And it`s the first Fatbike to tickle my fancies since the Moonlander came out 3 years ago...
The ICT is an amazing bike, i was the first UK resident to peddle one over here when i grabbed Tyler's after he unboxed it at Forth Fat... but it is a wide bike everywhere, Press fit BB too,
So imagine the good old Pugsley with symmetrical in line wheels, 170mm ish rear end, Bolt thgrough axles, capable of using a Bluto fork, and trail geometry inspired by the Krampus, with short chain stays etc...
And imagine if Surly who have proven industrial strenght wheels made some drilled tubeless ready rims,
One of these bikes with a Bluto fork would make one hell of a rock crawler..
Surly have just made it...
If you could live without 5" tyres on 100mm rims then this could be a great do it all fatbike,an update Pugsley - The Swiss Army Penknife of Fatbikes...
29+ compatable?
Yep!, 29+ wheels will fit, I am going to get to test ride one when they hit UK shores and have already pre ordered one!...
Specs from Surly site and info...
Wednesday is a frame with a decade of Omniterra design experience destilled into one steel package. Wednesday can ride over the same type of pretty much anything all of our other Omniterra bikes can and for the Wednesday, we borrowed elements from both our Trail and Touring categories to create an Omniterra ride that can truly handle anything you want to attempt. Want to point the thing down a mountain and roll those dice? Wednesday has geometry spry enough to get you through the techy stuff, stable enough for the fast stuff and doesn’t feel sluggish when you have to ride back to the top.
While Wednesday is plenty confident on terrifying terrain, it also has the chops for any sort of expedition you may want to undertake. We gave it plenty of bottle mounts; triple bottle bosses on both fork legs and the down tube; standard bottle mounts on the seat tube and underside of the down tube; plus rack mounts on the frame and fork and fender eyelets on the dropouts, along with barrel bosses on the crown, fork legs and mid-blade, thru-blade eyelets on the fork as well. It also has internal dropper post routing and Surly Trip Guides to manage all the housing and cables on your frame with style. No rat’s nest here. It’s a lot to take in so read that again and you’ll understand, it’s just plain ready for action. We gave Wednesday its very own dropout design as well – a rear-facing, slotted dropout that can use either 10mm or 12mm axles and exit rearward or vertically. They’re cast steel and spaced at 170/177mm.
We wanted Wednesday to give you a lot of options in the tire clearance category. In the full-foward, short chainstay position you can run 26 x 3.8˝ tires on 80mm rims and in the full-rearward, longer chainstay position you get the option of 26 x 4.6˝ tires on an 80mm rim. Wednesday is made out of our own proprietary 4130 CroMoly steel and is ED coated. ED coating is a process that leaves a coating that, externally, provides a solid foundation for paint while also providing an added layer of corrosion protection internally. However, we still recommend an additional treatment such as Frame Saver or Boeshield.
and the ICT; Wednesday
On a long weekend now, and nothing to do but breath...
And soak up the harvest views here and ride bikes with friends,
and have a good time!...
Some pics from today...
More soon...
Just e-mailed Surly to see if 29+ would fit. They reckon it would be fine, but of course the wheels would need to be especially built to suit the frame, as the hub spacing is different to the Krampus / ECR.
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