{"id":184300,"date":"2026-11-07T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T10:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=review-global&p=184300"},"modified":"2026-11-07T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T10:12:08","slug":"it-feels-like-a-frame-that-says-why-not-give-it-a-try","status":"publish","type":"review-global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/review-global\/it-feels-like-a-frame-that-says-why-not-give-it-a-try\/","title":{"rendered":"It feels like a frame that says, \u201cWhy not? Give it a try!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

After riding a few different bikes, I suddenly found myself wanting a SURLY frame more than ever.<\/p>\n

The biggest reason? It looked like there were absolutely no rules when it came to building it.<\/p>\n

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Every now and then, I’d come across bikes that looked like a random mix of someone’s favorite parts and whatever they had lying around. We sometimes call this kind of build a “parts-bin special.”<\/p>\n

And more often than not, I’d find myself thinking, “Wow, that’s so cool!”<\/p>\n

I think that kind of openness, that ability to accept just about anything, is one of the things that makes SURLY so special.<\/p>\n

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So when the Steamroller was released right around the time my SURLY fever was at its peak, I jumped right on it.<\/p>\n

Having my coworkers help me build it after work, chatting and throwing ideas around together, was a priceless memory in itself.<\/p>\n

I wanted to experiment with all kinds of setups, but for starters, I decided to transfer the parts from my AFFINITY Metropolitan (size L) onto the Steamroller (size 59).<\/p>\n

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