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Building the "Best" Surly Bridge Club - Part 9: Complete Cost Breakdown & Upgrade Insights
Welcome to the ninth episode of our "Building the Best Surly Bridge Club" series! In this video, we dive deep into the complete cost breakdown of our Surly Bridge Club project, helping you understand the actual cost of customizing your dream bicycle. We also explore the pros and cons of upgrading a full bike versus starting from scratch with just the frame. By the end, we answer the burning question: Was it worth it? And would we tackle this project again? Whether you're a Surly enthusiast or considering your first custom build, this episode is for you.
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Rivendell Bike Shop Build: Susie W. Longbolts Wolbis Slugstone
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We're excited to announce that Ottawa Bike and Trail is now an official Rivendell Dealer! In this video, we dive into what makes Rivendell bikes so special and why we’re passionate about their unique approach to cycling. Follow along as we build our first Rivendell, a custom built Susie W. Longbolts (aka Wolbis Slugstone). We'll show you all the parts we've selected and show you how we put it a...
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This is the eighth episode of the "Building the Best Surly Bridge Club" project. In this episode, we finally put new tires on our Surly Bridge Club project bike. We'll walk you through our tire selection process, show you how we set up the tires tubeless, and then take the bike out for a single-track trail test ride. We also discuss the future of this project. We're asking for your input on a f...
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Following the success of our Ogre vs. Bridge Club video, we've received many requests for a comprehensive comparison of the Karate Monkey and the Krampus. In this video, we'll explore the key differences and similarities between these two popular trail bikes, helping you decide which one is right for you. What You'll Learn: * History & Innovation: Discover the history of the Karate Monkey and t...
e-Bike Outpost Update: Rad Power RadExpand 5 Plus E--Bike
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Join us as we make progress on our brand-new e-Bike Outpost location! In this video, we update you on the changes were making to the shop, explain the operations of the e-Bike Outpost, talk about why you should purchase your e-bike from a dealer, and showcase the very first bike built in our new shop. At the e-Bike Outpost, you'll find top e-bikes from Aventon, Rad Power, Giant, LIV, and Moment...
Bike Shop News: We're opening a second location dedicated to e-Bikes!
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We're thrilled to announce the expansion of our e-bike business! With the growing popularity of Giant, Liv, Momentum, Aventon, and Rad Power e-bikes, we've decided to open a 2nd location with a space dedicated to all things e-bike. In this video we explain what we are up to and provide you with all the details about our 2nd location. 📍 Introducing the Ottawa Bike and Trail e-Bike Outpost at 106...
The Ghost Busters Bike! Custom Surly Ghost Grappler Bicycle Build
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In this video we show off our Surly Ghost Grappler bicycle that we transformed into a one-of-a-kind Ghost Busters ECTO-1 themed show bike. This bike was born out of winter boredom and a desire to have a few laughs at the bike shop. This bike started out as a stock Surly Ghost Grappler but its been upgraded with a two-toned powder coat paint job, Ghost Buster themed stickers, a custom built Ghos...
Brandon's Bike Check: Pinarello Treviso 650b and Mystery Bianchi
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We had the privilege of working on two incredible custom bicycle builds for our friend Brandon. We wanted to create a bike check video to showcase Brandon's unique bikes. The first one is a 1980s vintage Pinarello Treviso. We transformed this bike into a 650b cruiser, outfitting it with custom wheels, wider tires, and Nitto handlebars swept back for comfort. The second bike is shrouded in myste...
Building the Best Surly Bridge Club Part 7: Let's light this Bicycle Up; Dynamo Hub and Light
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In the latest episode of our Building the Best Surly Bridge Club series we'll show you how to light up your bike with a dynamo hub and light. We'll walk you thorough the process, provide some insight on the benefits of a dynamo hub, and show you how it looks on our project bike. Ottawa Bike and Trail is a Surly Intergalactic Destination Dealer. You can find out more here: ottawabikeandtrail.com...
Building the Best Surly Bridge Club Part 6: Custom Wheel Upgrade Guide: Surly GNOT Boost explained
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Welcome to the sixth installment of our Building The "Best" Surly Bridge Club Series! In this episode, we delve into the world of wheel upgrades as we upgrade the rear wheel with a custom wheel build featuring a DT Swiss 350 Hub and Velocity Blunt 35 rim. Throughout the episode, we'll explain the Surly "GNOT Boost" spacing for the rear wheel. Additionally, we'll provide insights and considerati...
Which Surly Should You Buy? Surly Bridge Club vs Surly Ogre
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Surly recently released new Bridge Club and Ogres bicycles. Both of these bikes are versatile, all-road touring bicycles with similar capabilities. In this video we walk through each of the new models and review what has changed and what has stayed the same. We also discuss what type of riders these bikes are for and provide details to help you decide which bike might be right for you. You can ...
Bike Check: Jeremiah's All-City Cosmic Stallion Titanium
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Building the Best Surly Bridge Club Part 5: Test Ride on Flint Hills Trail and Q&A
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Building the Best Surly Bridge Club Part 3: Upgrading the Handlebars, Saddle, & Pedals
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Moonrise Bike Ride 2024 Save the Date: Cycling, Music, & Food Festival on the Flint Hills Trail
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Join our NEW Gravel Group Ride to explore Kansas gravel every week
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The Bad Astra Gravel Race LIVE: Route Reveal and Q&A
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Moonrise Bike Ride 2023: Bikepacking and Music Festival on the Flint Hills Trail State Park
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Visiting Lehigh Portland Trails the Newest Kansas State Park
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This series has been absolutely terrible. It just encourages foolish behaviour. My new Bridge Club frame arrives in a few weeks. 😂.
Great video. Ill go with the rigid 29" x 3" Krampus👍 Thanks genius biker man
If I had unlimited money, this is the types of bikes I'd assemble.
I often match my upgrades to the cost of the bike in base form or frame cost. For this one, I think the upgrades are reasonable. The lights are overkill but hey it looks dandy.
Neither. 😂❤
I have enjoyed the series as a (2020 27.5) Bridge Club owner. I started with complete bike and have about $1500 in upgrades and I count touring-overland bags in my outfit. My drive train choices were the most similar going with yours but 2x9 CUES with cabling going top pull. Still to is a dynamo and light. The experience will have me build from frame and fork out modern rando-light tour. The Bridge Club is to me the ultimate ATB.
Thank you so much. This video helped so much on my build.!
Teravail Ehline 2.3 would’ve been my choice and as far as colors there’s too many choices, but that recent Lavender on the Midnight Special is pretty sweet. I don’t remember the name of it but that freeridey hardtail in the safety orange was pretty nice also🤔
Crazy fits.
I want one to go with my KM.
They would make a good pair.
Great series guys!! Loved watching the build! It’s nice to see a project like this where quality is the #1 driver of choice, not necessarily cost. I’ve been riding for a long time now, 1980 is when I bought my first serious road bike. As I’m in my 60’s, I want to get a bike with more of a relaxed ride position, elevated stack height, etc. my plan for upcoming retirement is to head to the rail trails and stay out as long as possible, as often as possible. The Bridge Club really checks a lot of boxes, and I’m just inspired by your build. I am going to have to pick your collective brains and see what direction I should go in! Thanks for the excellent content, your channel is superb!! Stay safe and be well
Thanks! Let us know if we can help you out a bike together. Obviously I agree the BC is a great choice.
Love my bridge club. Been slowly upgrading over the last year and it keeps getting better and better
Great videos. I bought a Velo Orange Passhunter frame and built it up last year. I built it up for about the same cost as the Bridge Club. I learned a lot and ended up with a bike that I probably wouldn’t be able to buy at most bike shops. Enjoy your day.
Passhunter is an awesome frame.
Personally I'm looking at a cost below $1500 total out the door. This cost is nuts. The industry has lost its way. Hell I only paid $3000 bucks for my Suburban and it's a go anywhere ,any time transportation, and I can sleep in it in any weather.
I think you’re missing the point of this build. I bought my BC stock and paid less than $1500. This about using the BC as a platform for building something fun.
I think it would be reasonable for local bike shops to curate the customer, encourage them exactly what you showed, buy a complete bike and have an idea of what they can change over time, over a year or two to make it more personalized. You could do it by having things on display that show potential upgrades that the rider will really enjoy rather than things they see on TH-cam and come in asking for. First would be wheels and saddle and maybe bars rather than the fancy stuff they’re seeing on TH-cam like the latest electronic shifting drivetrains.
I agree. That's how I justify building another bike. But, I've got about 5 custom builds in the shop. I've got to sell a few so I can build more.
@@ottawabikeandtrail need idea boards to help the customer see what they can accomplish :) thank you for what you did step by step with your video series
You helped inspire me to buy a Bridge Club and get off my eBike
THATs AWESOME! We get a lot of inspiration seeing what others are doing. Glad we could pass that on.
How about light touring or bikepacking rig for your next project!?
I would consider the Bridge Club a bikepacking rig. I'm going to add a rear rack and use it for an upcoming bikepacking trip.
@@ottawabikeandtrail I cannot go this year, if you continue with the Moonrise event, I will be ready 2025 and beyond!
What size is that Ghost Grappler in the background and would you consider selling it?
The frame in the background is a medium. I also have a large and a small. Not sure if they all have the "Ghost Grappler" sticker like this one. I've got them listed on our website: ottawabikeandtrail.com/products/surly-ghost-grappler-frameset-27-5-steel-sage-green-medium?variant=48098132984039
@@ottawabikeandtrail can you check if one of them is a small in sage green? Not really interested in the blue non-ghost grappler.
@@obfuscurity It's sage green. I'm just not sure if the label says "Ghost Grappler" or just "Grappler". If it matters to you I'll let you know tomorrow.
@@ottawabikeandtrail I don't think the sage green ever came in the non-ghost scheme, but you'd know better than me. Either way, it's more about the color than the name (it's for the wife).
I'm a fan.... I'd probably take the incremental approach to making changes - as that would allow me to undo something I wasn't happy with before switching something else.
Exactly.
Ottawa Bike and Trail, LLC, nice content
Ottawa Bike and Trail, LLC, I'm hooked on your videos, keep them rolling
Hold up, I didn't see any coverage of you changing the frame color in the previous episodes. If I'm not mistaken it's no longer the same green color, looks more like a very dark grey. Or is it a different camera / color correction?
Hmm I guess it's just a color that skews dark grey / black in different light.
@@obfuscurity It's the original pait. It does seems to change in the light. I'm still not sure what color to power coat it. But, I've got a few bikepacking trips planned for this bike. Once it get's cold it'll go in for powder coat.
sweet build! I'm also planning to build a new wheel. What's the spoke length did you use?
We used a 271 or 272. But, you’ll want to calculate the proper spoke length unless you are using the exact same hub and rims that we used. I just than the calculation and looks like we were able to use the same length on the front and rear wheels.
@@ottawabikeandtrail thank you! I tried using the spoke calculator, and it recommends between 271~273. The options available in LBS are only 270 and 275. I'm not sure if they have tools for cutting and threading spokes.
Where can I buy surly? I'm from Malaysia
Amazing build! Very beautiful color combination. Silver parts just like the good old days. Maybe you should have found a silver rear derailleur deore rd m591.
This is an exciting video. I have an inside scoop on an older Velo Orange Rando frame that is in a barn with a lot of other bike stuff. The owner is downsizing. Seems like a fun project. Enjoy your day my friends. 🧡
I put a 29er front end on a 27.5 bike and it corners better than my 29er and the front end doesn't wash out like my other 27.5. It may be a fade but man that bike is great. Surly might want to consider a special custom build with the " mullet setup 😂 ". It seems like it wouldn't be all that much of a hassle. Great videos man, I'm interested in getting into bike touring and looking at Surly. You are the only person I've checked out about the brand and I'm learning a lot. Thank you.
this is a great video simply because it mimics what you're going to do in your garage. These bike repair/customize videos never show how many times bike shops order the wrong parts, or think somethings gonna work and it doesn't but it's edited out. There's a lot of trial and error even with people that do this for a living. thanks.
Wow!!! All bikes should be built the way they were back in 1985. Rivendale works the hip-retro-perception-thing and unaffectedly embraces the standards of a by-gone era. Nicely done.!! Luv how they used the lugs in the visible areas, and the color.
get a ergo cork grips
if someone wont cheaper marin muirwoods have similar geometry
Insane collection
Man, that looks like a super fun bike to ride around!
It’s fun watching your build progress. I finished my first build last year. A Velo Orange Pass Hunter. It’s a great feeling of accomplishment creating something unique to you.
Pass Hunter is a great bike! Thanks for watching.
I love the New Albion 42/26 crankset. It seems to work well for me with a grx derailleur although I am running friction shifting. Love your channel. Enjoy your day my friend s.
Solo había visto imágenes en Instragram de estas bicicletas, no las conocía a fondo, excelente video
Skidmark brown
Oh, how special! Love those partial-wraparound seat stays.
Beautiful bike, and a beautiful build! Well done! Many years ago, I had a Rivendell Road Standard, handmade in Waterford Wisconsin. That bike rode like a dream and was always a breeze to work on. I rebuilt it a few times - some for fun, and once after dropping it in a lake. Ride on!
I have a gen 1 Surly KM, with many Riv styling cues. People have called it a Riv-Monkey... Yeah love the Riv brand.
I have a Surly Pack Rat that gives off similar vibes.
I found OBT through a Bridge Club search and followed the build and got a warm n' fuzzy for the store and channel. Now, a X0-1 build? wadda F! I wish that I was still in the bike biz, lived in Ottawa and somehow got to work at the store. Anyway, loved the nostalgia around the Bridgestone catalogue and wish I kept mine. And I loved the resto mod of the X0-1. More W n F's
Thanks for the nice words and thanks for watching!
How are you able to fit downtube barrel adjusters? This frame has no threaded boss’s .
My Susie does. It’s the latest batch, so I wonder if this is new?
beautiful
I’ve been admiring Riv framsets for a while now. It’s hard to explain to some that you can be a “serious” cyclist and have no concerns at all about how fast you are riding. Thinking about a Clem or Roadini for next build.
They forgot to put at the tube any hot-line number.
I finally get it. Used to think, why not just buy a cheap old bike and fit it up for MUCH less. But after working on some 80's and 90's mountain bikes lately, I now know this is basically a modern high quality comfort bike with a retro vibe. My wifes Globe is probably faster and just as comfortable and versatile, but I have to admit, you put together a Sweeeet bike!!!
Thanks! I also love inexpensive 80s & 90s mountain bikes. I’ve got a few projects in the queue.
Every shop that sells Rivs should also sell ascots & top hats.
Yes!!
I love my Hilsen and Hubbuhubbuh.
Hmmmm. $2k frame. It’s pretty. That’s a lot of money for a bike that’ll rarely break 12 mph. It has Marin county written all over it.
Not sure I understand the Marin county reference but I can assure you mine goes faster than 12mph on a regular basis.:) It’s a superb trail bike.
Dear,@@richardrose2710 From a safety standpoint, the manufacturer would probably say trails are contrary to the bike’s design and intended use. Take a closer look at the video, where those two guys are just toodling around the alley. The bike looks nice and comfy, but notice the antediluvian amount of vertical compliance flex.
Love the tire color!