Me and the Moonlander!

[HMR]

Crap! I promised you I wouldn't look up "Moonlander" before you showed me your new bike and then I clicked on this thread.

Oh well, it's way cooler than I would've guessed anyway. Now I want one too.

[no-pistons]

Wow, cool bike and great photos! How heavy are those tires? and how much pressure do you run in them?

[Gear]

Crap! I promised you I wouldn't look up "Moonlander" before you showed me your new bike and then I clicked on this thread.

Oh well, it's way cooler than I would've guessed anyway. Now I want one too.

I thought that might happen. Oh well, I hope to ride by today!

Wow, cool bike and great photos! How heavy are those tires? and how much pressure do you run in them?

I am not sure of the weight of the tires, but the Moonlander weights 38 pounds. Tire pressure plays a huge roll in how this bicycle performs. I run anywhere from 18 psi on the street to 8 psi in the soft terrain. Thanks for the compliments on the photographs. All of them have been taken with my iPhone 4s. Most using an App called Pano. I see you are in San Diego. Let me know if you would like to see it in person.

[Gear]

January 24, 2012 - I did a little Fed Expo ride. I traveled over to Palomar Airport to drop off HMR's winnings from the last Conspiracy Rendezvous. A price package from Trasharoo(attached to the new front rack).


HMR(Jeremy) trying out the Moonlander.

Mileage 18.9 miles
Elevation Gain 1599 feet
Moving Average 10.4 mph

[HMR]

This bike rules!

[Gear]

With my rides increasing in length. I started researching a way to carry some extra gear. If you get a chance to look at a Moonlander up close you soon realize that the rear triangle is no were near normal. This makes installation of a rear rack some what challenging. So I opted to try and get away with something on the front. Here is what I did after some helpful idea's from the internet. This is Surly's Nice Rack(rear) installed on the front. A couple of simple tweaks and it should work out well for my application. The above photograph shows where I bent the upper bar closest to the handlebar forward. This gives me the clearance from the rack to the frame that I need. On a positive note, while using the rack today, I think I am going to like having it in front. This allows me to keep watch of what every I put on the rack with just a simple glance downward.


Looks kind of like a brush guard for a bike.

[bucketosudz]

Jealous! I really wanted a Moonlander when Surly announced them in August, but in the end I wanted to get riding before they "landed" so I got Pugsley instead. LBS owner has one and got to check it out after meeting on the snowy trails in December, full on Cool they are.

[Bullsnake]

Love the Moonlander!

Our local Surly dealer is a big time roadie guy and try as I might I absolutely could not get him to order me one (Said he would check into it every time I was in and then never did!) so I ended up ordering a Fatback Ti SL about a week ago. Should be in sometime in the next few weeks and I can't wait to get out and log some miles on it!

Keep the posts coming - it is great to see one of these out in the wild and I love to see your setup ideas. What is your thoughts on how it rides compared to a traditional hard tail with suspension up front? do you notice quite a bit more rolling resistance while riding slow, or is it more of a "float" feeling?

Thanks!

[Bullsnake]

Totally off topic, but is there any way to order a Surly Moonlander online? Did some brief checking on it a while back, and from what I could come up with Surly is very committed to dealer only purchases. I am a FIRM believer in LBS support, but when you live in the middle of Iowa and there isn't great dealer support my options are kinda limited...

[sven]

Totally off topic, but is there any way to order a Surly Moonlander online? Did some brief checking on it a while back, and from what I could come up with Surly is very committed to dealer only purchases. I am a FIRM believer in LBS support, but when you live in the middle of Iowa and there isn't great dealer support my options are kinda limited...

Universal can get them: http://www.universalcycles.com/shopp...&category=3296