Thursday, April 01, 2010

Surly Karate Monkey....

... set up for touring.

9 Comments:

Blogger Noel said...

sweet. where ya headed?

12:35 AM  
Blogger coastkid said...

looks good...like the bar set up too...hope to do some weekend tours on my KM this year...

12:57 AM  
Blogger Joe said...

The H-Bar / Ergon combo is perfect. I rode 7 days of RAGBRAI last year on it in total comfort. I do need to get another Brooks saddle though as I killed my last one.

Noel, I'm not heading anywhere specific.. just a bunch of gravel and back roads riding this summer. Since my bone graft in January, the doc says NO mountain biking this year.

7:46 AM  
Blogger Joe said...

Thinking about riding up to Gnome Fest this year. Only 200 miles. Easy to ride up in 2 days, hang our for 2 days, then 2 days riding home.

11:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what kinda rack is that?

9:58 PM  
Blogger Joe said...

Gabriel... The rack is a JANDD rack.

10:13 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

Sweet set up! I know this is from a few years back but I recently acquired and old karate monkey and was looking to convert it into a gravel bike (of sorts).

Did you have to use clamps for the rack and how did you install the fenders>

Cheers, Kevin

2:33 PM  
Blogger Joe said...

Kevin,

For the upper rack mounts, I used P-clamps. The front of the rear fender was attached with a zip tie. The rest were attached using the eyelets on the frame.

Joe in Iowa

6:28 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

Thank you, sir!

1:24 PM  

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