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Description:The premise behind Pugsley’s design is based on the allowance of tires with a larger-than-average footprint. It was created to go where other bikes may flounder. Our frame and fork will accept 4" tires on 26" rims. The floatation and traction gained by using large-volume, low-pressure tires (we highly recommend the Surly Endomorph 3.7 tires) can get you over and through otherwise-unrideable terrain: ice, snow, sand, mud, wet rocks and roots. In many conditions, bigger is better.
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Submitted by
CrimsonEclipse
a Cross Country Rider
from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. USA
Date Reviewed: July 5, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | Markham Park | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$2000.00 | | Purchased At: | Online (self assembl | | Strengths: | Rolls over: Sand, roots, rocks, obstacles, animals, people, slow riders. | | Weaknesses: | Heavy (suck it up!) Strange parts (like wheel set), adds to the charm | | Similar Products Used: | "normal" mountain bikes/ | | Bike Setup: | XTR 2x9, Avid BB7 disks, Friction Thumb Shifters. Ergon Grips. | | Bottom Line: | Redefines fun. Every patch of sand on the trail makes me laugh, especially when I hear the sound of "SHOOOFFF" of the guy behind me washing out. It's the SUV of cycles, and it stops for nothing. Steering is unique and takes a bit of getting used to. It's not a bad thing, just different. The Pugsley is the absolute best bike I've even ridden. Bottom line: FUN! and that's why we ride. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sharkboydad
a Weekend Warrior
from Templeton, CA
Date Reviewed: June 16, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$1000.00 | | Purchased At: | Great Divide Cyclery | | Strengths: | Wow factor - people actually yell stuff at me from a block away | | Weaknesses: | Heavy, not good on ice, ideal tire pressure in various conditions requires experimentation | | Similar Products Used: | There's nothing like it | | Bike Setup: | singlespeed | | Bottom Line: | I lived in Montana and bought this bike to ride in the snow. It's good on packed snow but less good on deep fresh snow. It's also not good on the ice (I still prefer studded tires for that). I used it to do the Little Su 50K race in Alaska and it performed better than the geared mountain bikes. I moved to California and brought it with me - I just can't part with it because it's so much fun. It can be used on soft sand, the beach and is great on gravel roads as well. It's fun but has a limited role for me now - a nice toy but probably won't be your primary bike. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robert Stianche
a Cross Country Rider
from Elizabethville, PA
Date Reviewed: December 10, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | RCST, Wieser State Forrest | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$2500.00 | | Purchased At: | Black Creek Bike Shop, Elizabethville | | Strengths: | A bike Companys quest to please the odd balls out there. Bike is just one rad ride, can go over, just about anything and has the balance of a trials bike. | | Weaknesses: | odd ball tires, side walls are just alittle too prone to abraision (thin light construction ), you must be careful otherwise it really has no actual weaknesses | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | surley Large Marge rims , Endo's, Avid mechanical disc stoppers, Ritchey stem, seat post, ODI lock grips, SRAM twist shift, ft derail shimano, real derail SRAM, SRAM rear 9sp cogs, with XT hubs, front Single speed SURLEY
hubs, WTB seat and headseat, 1X1 Surley bars, PUGSLEY front fork, CB eggbeaters and TRUVATIV firex double cranks. | | Bottom Line: | Hmmm, this things got the goods to get anywhere you want to go. You might think its a slow pig, but you find out real fast , it really goes quite well, mind you this is no 24 hour race rig, you will find that because of its relaxed geometry, you can ride all day with it, no problems, no suspension, funny how that isn't an issue with this bike, you find yourself just rolling over stuff that would of gave you a second thought before. The balance of the rig is also a great atribute, you can balance on technical sections , the grip of those large tires at low pressure is unreal. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Vee
a Cross Country Rider
from Madison, WI USA
Date Reviewed: December 2, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | The huge tires easily handle rough terrain and more than make up for the lack of suspension. Roots and rocks disappear, and I've even found riding across rough fields enjoyable.
I feel the weight on climbs, but if I pick an easy gear I can spin up almost anything. The handling is a little slow, and the tires don't like to accelerate or change direction, but I began to love the bike once I understood that it's almost unstoppable when ridden at a measured pace.
And it's a great conversation-starter. A girl even approached me at a bar recently: "Did I see you riding a HUGE bike by the lake last week?" | | Weaknesses: | I thought it would be a good snowy-day commuter but it's actually lousy in fresh snow. The Endomorph tires slip around a lot and it takes massive effort to pedal them through wet snow. On a flat road or bike path that's covered in fresh snow, almost anything works better than the Puglsey. But once the snow is packed down a little, it's great - it holds its line really well.
It's similarly poor in mud. The tires are too wide and too smooth.
And it's wasted on dry pavement, where I'd say it's two to three gears slower than an ordinary mountain bike. But that's besides the point.
Idiosyncrasies abound: two rear brakes, 100mm bottom bracket shell, confusing and expensive to build the wheels, and what am I going to do for fenders?
Also, the tires need to be tubeless. Those tubes are just adding two pounds of sluggishness. In this high-volume, low-pressure application, tubes make no sense. | | Similar Products Used: | It reminds me of the Honda 3-wheeler I had as a kid. I loved that thing, and I love this bike. | | Bike Setup: | 3x9 drive train, disc brakes, Jones handlebar, Brooks saddle. | | Bottom Line: | It won't replace any bike you own now. It probably won't win you any races. And it damn sure sucks carrying it up the basement stairs.
But riding the Pugsley is fun in a big-grin, big-kid kind of way. If you feel like riding over something ridiculous, the Pugsley can probably manage it. And all kinds of people - cyclists, motorists, pedestrians, kids - will gape and ask questions. Ridiculous yet functional. Overweight but unstoppable. Expensive but worth it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Hugh
a Cross Country Rider
from La Cala.De Mijas,Malaga,Spain.
Date Reviewed: November 10, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Laggen, Scotland. | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$2500.00 | | Purchased At: | Eaton Bikes, Key West, Florida. | | Strengths: | Looks fit for purpose,Monster attitude, Purple frame(important),very comfortable,Gets attention. | | Weaknesses: | Local availability of tyres and tubes. | | Similar Products Used: | Closest would be a Kona Stinky ( I think ) | | Bike Setup: | Purple frame,Large Marge rims, xt rear hub, surley front hub, Endomorph 3.7,Brooks saddle (the comfort,the comfort),Titte 1x1 torsion bar,Kona grips,Crane creek bar ends and head set,Salsa stem,Magura Julie hydraulic disc brakes,Pugsley sealed bottom bracket, Maximus Isis Drive cranks,Shimano spd pd-545 peddles, Shimano s/tourney rear mech, Shram 7 speed cassette,Surley rear rack. | | Bottom Line: | Been Mountain biking for 25 years and got the scars and photos to prove it.I´ve always bought cool bikes,moved on and upgraded as bikes and technology progressed and improved.I thought my last ride (a tricked-out Kona hoss) was about as good as it gets for my riding demands (touring offroad Spain).
For as good as my Kona is (and it´s very good)the Surley is better in just about every way apart from it´s top speed performance, witch is mostly down to my choice of gearing and really is´nt important, I wanted a simple no nonsense truck that will get me through and over most kind of terrain with the minimum of fuss and drama and it does it in spades!
My first test was biking into the "Campo" where there is miles of glorious single track,with eyepopping climbs, brains oot´ downhills and "licorice allsorts" surfaces finishing of with 10 mile grind up and down the Fuengirola river bed. The Surley was a blast, the feeling I got was the bike can go anywhere.It climbs well ,I did´nt get any loss of traction or wheelspin on the loose gravelly ups, the grip is just incredible.(Tyre pressure is important for overall successful riding, I´m still experimenting but i´ve found that 18 bls is ´bout right for me).I did have trouble with rough downs. I would have been quicker (but not lots) with my Kona but that ´s fitted with serious front shocks the Surley has Project two forks and a very fat tyre. The biggest difference was biking the river bed. B.S (before Surley) I could not ride the river bed without falling off half a dozen times (it´s quite tricky)But A.S (after Surley I fell off only once. It was no way the fault of the bike, I just ran out of talent. Anyone wanting x/country, touring , adventure,fun bike to most things without the hassle of suspension need look no further. It´s the only bike I´ll ever need.
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Submitted by
Josh
a Cross Country Rider
from VA
Date Reviewed: June 2, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Most fun bike of all time | | Weaknesses: | Having to answer a lot of questions at the trail head | | Bike Setup: | XT, Avid, Diabolus Cranks | | Bottom Line: | This year marks the twentieth year since I first rode a mountain bike. Back then we called them All Terrain Bikes and there weren't any purpose-built mountain bike trails so we rode on powerlines, fire roads, and hiking trails. Mountain Bike rides were treated as more of an adventure than a cardio workout or an "extreme" activity. The first time I rode the Pugsley I was reminded of those good old days and I had more fun than I've had on a bike in a long time. Those big tires roll over and through anything and the rigid frame and fork keep me honest and make every trail a little more challenging then it would be on a full suspension bike. I rode all winter no matter what the conditions - nothing stops the Pugsley. I've ridden past sections of trail with hundreds of two inch wide ruts that cause hikers to curse our kind - and I look back and the Pugs has left no trace. It's amazing how little tread you need for traction when your tires are 4 inches wide. If we all rode Pugsleys maybe we wouldn't have to spend so much of our riding time doing trail maintenance. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tim Burton
a Cross Country Rider
from Madison, CT
Date Reviewed: November 14, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Dead Moose Alley | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1700.00 | | Purchased At: | Rock and Road | | Strengths: | Any kind of trail riding except freeriding/downhill, great through sand, loose gravel, baby heads, larger rocks, limitless grip, climbs great too. | | Weaknesses: | Strange stearing on pavement, who cares about that? | | Similar Products Used: | Uhhhh, yeah | | Bike Setup: | Large Marge rims, XT rear hub, Surly front/rear singlespeed hub, Hayes Hydro's, XT shifters, Hozfeller cranks(22/36), Thomson X4 stem, Thudbuster seatpost, 3.7 endomorfs, | | Bottom Line: | I can't believe this thing, I bought it to be a winter bike and just had to take it out before the snow flew, it turns out that this thing is an amazing trail bike, I am ripping on this thing faster than any bike I have owned, I am absolutely going to race this thing next year. The only other mountain bike I am going to keep now is my freeride bike, I don't need another full suspension bike anymore. 15 lbs in the tires is perfect for singletrack, it takes the bite out of the trail like a 3 inch fork and provides awesome grip, 10 lbs is good for the beach sand. The one thing I will change is to make it a single ring up front, no need for the small ring, you can hammer up hills without it. I have to say this is the most fun I have ever had riding a bike, you just smile and laugh all the way down the trail.
Surly rules!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
DALE CANNON
a Racer
from PHOENIX,AZ USA
Date Reviewed: October 2, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | NATIONAL @SOUTHMOUNTAIN | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | EVERYTHING! (at least everything I took it on) | | Weaknesses: | Before I rode it, I would have said it's weakness was the lack of suspension. Now, I can't think of one. | | Similar Products Used: | Yeah right. | | Bike Setup: | set up with a double ring in front and 8 in the rear. Big Bad 4" tires and I don't know the other specifics | | Bottom Line: | I rode this at the dirt demo during interbike only because it looked cool and I thought I can't leave Interbike without riding a Pugsley. After riding some of the nicest full suspension bikes out there, I wasn't expecting much. Boy was I suprised. I liked it so much that I took it out for a second loop. I felt so confident on it due to its handling that I even took it over the teeter-totter! The bike handled like a dream and floated over everything. In most cases it handled actually better than the full-suspension bikes I rode. Bottom line is this...I'm getting one!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Miller
a Cross Country Rider
from Dolores, CO
Date Reviewed: August 29, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Kokolpelli Bike and Board | | Strengths: | Price, durability, fun-factor, just look at the damned thing! | | Weaknesses: | Can take some trial and error to find best set-up. Not a bike you can roll off the floor without having to make some adjustments. Tire deformation at speed on slickrock-type terrain gives really strange steering input at the handlebars--just go with the flow and all is well, but it can get a little scary. | | Similar Products Used: | Sugar 293, 24" and 26" Mountain unicycles | | Bike Setup: | Endomorphs, Marge XC rims, 36/22 with 8 speed, gripshift, BB-7's, Raceface Diabolous crankset | | Bottom Line: | The most fun you can have with your bike shorts on! I sold my full-suspension bike. Lots of giggle factor in loose terrain of any kind. The Pugs is actually a very fast race bike if the course features sand or sketchy traction without a ton of climbing. Pugs does climb well, just don't get in a hurry compared to a nanogram race rig. The 100mm Raceface Diabolus crankset was a godsend, it doesn't weigh much more than a 3-piece XC crank but the outboard bearings make the bottom bracket so much stiffer that you can use a gear or two higher in most conditions. The chainline adjustability helps to get around those Endomorphs as well. I really like the 36/22 set-up in the front as it simplifies gear choice and 8 speeds in the back is the way to go for wet conditions. Another advantage to 8 speed is the the chain is the right width if you tank your derailleur in the middle of nowhere and have to swap wheels to ride home single-speed.
Don't expect Pugsley to ride like your last bike, just let it roll on it's own terms and you won't be able to wipe the grin off your face. The perfect bike for anyone who remembers mountain biking should be fun. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew
a
from Portland, OR, USA
Date Reviewed: July 14, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | snow to shore, it matters not. | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$2200.00 | | Purchased At: | bunch of places in CO | | Strengths: | makes you feel like you are 7 again. | | Weaknesses: | some funky fork action under really hard braking. | | Similar Products Used: | similar?!?!?!?!? | | Bike Setup: | .243 post, Specialized milano saddle, ODI grips, Avid Ultimate levers, Hayes mx1 mech disk, DH riser bar and stem, FSA 100mm BB, TV Huzzy pedals and cranks, surly SS rings, Surly Single speed disk hubs (purple), White Bros Dos eno 17-19 and eno 21, Large Marge rims, Endomorph nasty tires, and Hookworms for cruzin. | | Bottom Line: | Wholy crap... this thing goes anywhere. stream crossings? yeah. Snow, yup. although haven't tried to DH it yet. North Shore? uh huh.... wet grass, whatever, sand... or a "beach" of fist sized rocks, like sittin on the sofa. Un freekin amazing. lots of fun.
One down side, hammer really hard on the front brake (probably only with disk) and the fork bends in a non uniform manner, with the offset for the rear spacing it seems to be a little interesting. not bad though. Been everywhere on this bike that I've been on my FS cannondale....
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Submitted by
Craig
a Weekend Warrior
from Cleveland, OH, USA
Date Reviewed: June 21, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Mohican SP (so far) | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1200.00 | | Purchased At: | Ebay | | Strengths: | Nothing else like it.
Huge tires float over everything. | | Weaknesses: | Heavy, but what do you expect for 4" wide tires?
Tires are a little bouncy when at pressures for trail riding. | | Similar Products Used: | None, there are none (with the exception of a few custom bikes out of Alaska) | | Bike Setup: | Rigid single speed
Endomorphs 3.7" tires on Large Marge 65mm rims
Phil Wood hubs, Brooks Saddle, Avid BB7 brakes. | | Bottom Line: | This is a cool bike based on looks alone. There is nothing else like an Endomorph for riding on snow or sand and a Pugsley is about the only bike that can fit one.
I've ridden it on snow where it works great and on the local single track which the bike also handles very well. The huge tires roll over everything and roll amazingly fast. So far I have been running the pressure between 15 and 20 psi. The tires tend to bounce some in roough terrain but the handling is lighter than if I run lower pressures. For snow and sand 10psi is probably better but it makes the bike tend to steer itself on hardpack.
Over all I am loving it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
andrew
a Weekend Warrior
from Christchurch, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: June 9, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | worsleys track | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1000.00 | | Purchased At: | bike shop | | Strengths: | nothing like it, always wanted one since i first saw it in the magazines. lots of attention from other mountain bikers who considered getting one (and their non supportive partners). really floats over everything with ease. no need to find a line just ploy down. | | Weaknesses: | incredibly heavy..... needs a bit of strength to get her going but seems to be lighter once moving. alignment of the hubs in the frame bit off. | | Similar Products Used: | well normal MTB's like klein attitude 91, tomac buckshot, GT psyclone but this is different | | Bike Setup: | 18" frame, hope hubs front and rear huge large marge rims, crappy cranks and flat pedals, X9 shifter + rear deraillier raceface bars, seatpost. 9 speed setup. might SS it not sure. | | Bottom Line: | If you like to get noticed look no further.
really enjoyed the first ride and look forward to riding it more. my quads will be huge by the time winter is out.
just really fun to ride and would recommend it totally.
you will be riding up things that you never did on standard bikes. decending is different as well. no need to have a front fork with that much travel in the tires.
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Submitted by
Johnny Vagabond
a Cross Country Rider
from Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: April 10, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Anything in or around UCSC | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Steel frame, double-wide tires, and purple. What more could you want? | | Weaknesses: | Some say weight is an issue, but for mobbing the soft stuff, weight isn't too important. I would like to mention that the oddball BB and E-type derailleur can be a little odd. Make sure you order the right parts! (The front wheel/fork take rear hubs and rear disc brakes!) | | Similar Products Used: | There isn't much like this out there, though I do ride rigid SS pretty often (Bianchi SISS). | | Bike Setup: | Avid BB7 disc brakes, Raceface Diabolous Bar, FSA stem and SS cranks, Thompson Elite Seat Post, Old-School FUAN BMX grips, Large Marge Rims with Endomorphs - tied and soldered to Surly New Disc Hubs, White Industries ENO freewheels (front and rear). | | Bottom Line: | Surly wanted to make something that handles the soft stuff, like snow, mud, or sand, without any trouble. With the option of running another freehweel or a fixed gear on the front, if you're in the former (snow), you can always have a back-up OR you can just run another gearing (for your SSers).
I've taken this thing out in snow, and I've loved it. After about 6-8 inches of powder, you sink in pretty deep and can't get yourself rolling, but this is above and beyond any normal bike.
In peanut butter mud, this thing rolls over it! You might pick up some stray globs, but the Pugs just blasts through it. In an ascent, where most folks lose traction to the point of walking, the Pugsley maintains it's traction about 90% of the time. Hidden roots, deep and thick pockets of clay-like grime, and rocks sometimes get those wheels loose, but I haven't seena bike that can handle that.
I've ridden her on the beach, too, and it's like nothing you could ever imagine - the tires lead minimal tread, and you roll like a tank!
***I have run pressures in all of these conditions between 10 and 25psi. The lower the better!*** | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
escape
a
from seattle
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | the beave | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | pacific bicycle sammamish | | Strengths: | handles the trail like an xc rig, a little heavy (36 lbs) the collest bike i have ever owned, i will never get rid of it. | | Weaknesses: | 11 pound wheels, hard to accelerate, but flies once you are at speed, not really a weakness | | Similar Products Used: | sold 2006 stumpjumper ht that i got at the same time after only a few rides, trek 400 | | Bike Setup: | 3" gazzalodis on sun doublewide rims, avid 7's and x-9 9sp set up | | Bottom Line: | the coolest bike ever made, you can run 15 lbs of pressure in the tires, it rides softer than a lot of my previous bikes, fully or not. it grips allover everything wet or dry, and best of all it halls ass. if you are snowed out of the high mountain rides and stick to the local trails and want something to keep you strong this is it | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SpinSir
a Weekend Warrior
from Charlotte
Date Reviewed: March 19, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Toughness, looks great, goes anywhere, comfortable, and gets attention. | | Weaknesses: | None, it does what it does. | | Similar Products Used: | Insert joke here. | | Bike Setup: | Single-Speed, Fat Fatties (3.7s), Jones handlebar, Avid disks. | | Bottom Line: | I saw the Pugsley in Black Sheep Cycles (Charlotte) a while back. The owner let me take it home while working on my full-suspension. I took it to dry fast cross-country trails in the area. It rocks. I smoothes out roots better than any full-suspension bike I've ridden. I tried a couple of things out while demoing and discovered the Pugsley is most fun on XC if you stay seated and ride it like a beach crusier. I even stayed seated while going over log pyramids and all. AWESOME | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew
a Cross Country Rider
from Portland, OR, USA
Date Reviewed: March 15, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | where no one is. | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$2000.00 | | Purchased At: | all over. | | Strengths: | makes you feel like you are 7 again. | | Weaknesses: | heavy. tires are difficult to change. | | Similar Products Used: | similar?? | | Bike Setup: | CC Large Marge rims, purple surly disk Single Speed hubs, Dos-ENO 17/19, ENO 21, Truvativ DH cranks and pedals, 243 seatpost, hayes mech. disk. Wipperman SS chain, Surly SS 32t ring. | | Bottom Line: | This thing is thee most fun bike i have ever ridden. first time i rode it, i was doing stoppies down a wet grass hill. then i rode back up it.... Take it down stairs, ride it over the nasty, find rocks roots and anything else slippery and ride it. Then look at your friends on Front Suspension (behind you) and smile. By far way more fun than any CC Full BOING BOING bike i've ridden. If you are going to get one of these, i would recomend going sealed everything if intents are to ride in sand or salt water. in two words: FUN, SMILE.
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Submitted by
Robert Crispin
a Cross Country Rider
from Portland, OR
Date Reviewed: February 26, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Lost Lakes, Ashland, OR | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$2000.00 | | Purchased At: | Interbike | | Strengths: | Amazing ride in all conditions at interbike | | Weaknesses: | It looks like a parade bike, cute, funny, until you ride one. I tell dealers, "If you do not let folks ride em, you won's sell em." Once you ride one, no weaknsesses. | | Similar Products Used: | I built the first snow bike, 1974 "Tankagnolo". See Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, History, First Bikes, Other First Bikes. Mine was a snow bike with the first disc brake. This is a REAL snow bike, disc brake and no finicky suspension crap to ruin your day. | | Bike Setup: | As it was set up at Interbike, 26x4 tires, disc brakes, 14 speed. | | Bottom Line: | I thought I would take the "parade bike" for a spin, ended up dropping folks up the sandy hill STANDING UP pedaling like a roadie. Took on the sand like it was pavement, just attacking everything without hesatation. I was in love with the Ellsworth Moment until I rode the Pugsley. I sat at the booth both days of the outdoor demos and watched the folks take the bike out and return with **** eating grins, like kids that just balanced their first bike without training wheels. I do not own one yet, but shall. The price above I had to put in, as the program required it. Dealers, let folks ride them. Folks, ride one, you will love it. More when I get mine !! - Tankagnolo Bob | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeff
a Weekend Warrior
from Nokomis, FL USA
Date Reviewed: January 18, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Tires!! | | Weaknesses: | Weight | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | Jones H-bars, Singlespeed, Middleburn 180 UNO cranks, White Ind. freewheel, Avid mech. discs, Surly hubs, King HS, WTB saddle, Truvativ BB.... | | Bottom Line: | Too much fun. The places this thing can go and the ease at which it will do it are amazing. I'm in Florida and bought it for the sandy trails and it loves them. Floats across the sand and roots like crazy. Opens up a bunch or areas to ride that otherwise could not be ridden. It is about 35 lbs (XL) and at times feel like it, but usually it is not a real problem. I think it is a great Florida MTB because or the lack of hills and the amount of sugar sand and roots we have on our trails. Make it about 28 lbs and it would be perfect! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Todd
a Cross Country Rider
from Fowlerville, MI
Date Reviewed: January 17, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Pontiac Lake | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1590.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Incredible frame, Innovative hub design, Awesome geometry, Everyone asks...what the heck are you riding ? Possibly the best customer support anywhere ! | | Weaknesses: | Nobody stocks tubes for these monsters locally....at least so far. | | Similar Products Used: | NONE | | Bike Setup: | Surly single speed hubs, Truvativ Husselfelt crankset, Avid BB7 disc brakes, Racefact Evolve stem, Sycros riser bar | | Bottom Line: | Remember when you got your first bike ? The unbridaled joy of wheeling it around in all it's single speed glory. Imagine that but in a bigger package and you start to get the idea behind the Pugsley. The bike is awesome, it goes places that few bikes dream of going....and for us in Michigan that means snow, mud, slush, sand, and goop. Even as a single speed the Pugsley just motors, heck I never even rode a single speed before and I think I'm in love. Go ahead, scream past someone on the trail and you realize that the bike rides alot fast than you would imagine. I'd sell every other bike I own to keep this one....period. Surly Rules !! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
DirtDad
a
from California
Date Reviewed: January 14, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | It really works as advertised, you can go where other bikes cannot, like sand, snow, etc. | | Weaknesses: | When you go where other bikes cannot, you go alone, LOL. Heavy (but that just means there is more to love). Horizontal dropouts (a weakness if you run a gears). Humongous 100mm bb (few bb options now, less in the future). Uses a rear hub in the front and rear brakes in the front, which is mostly gimmicky and heavy. The wheels/tires are necessarily expensive, but the frame/fork is a good value. | | Similar Products Used: | None yet (Wildfire Designs Fatbike on the way) | | Bike Setup: | Reasonably light stuff: XT, X-9, Race Face, Control Tech, Magura Martas, Egg Beaters. The bike still came in at 36 lbs. I run super low pressure, below 10 psi for sand riding, and you need a digital pressure gauge to measure that low. | | Bottom Line: | My list of weaknesses above is long but they are nit picks. This bike is as incredible to ride as it is to look at, which is pretty incredible. My only experiences riding it are as a beach cruiser - on the beach sand, not on a beach trail. Few cycling experiences compare with the moment I dropped the front tire onto beach sand. I was prepared to sink - I had tried it before with other mtbs with 2.5" tires on regular rims with no success. But the Pugs barely noticed the sand, which was so deep and loose it was hard to walk in. Instead it floated across and carried me down to the surf and along the coast. This bike represents a whole new sub category of MTBs, comparable to Freeriding, DH, 29ers, etc. I want to do multi day tours along the California coast, find sandy ORV areas to ride, etc., and of course, it can be ridden on regular MTB trails, too, but I have not tried that yet. If you want more info, you can look up the "Pugsley Blog" thread on the 29er board here on mtbr. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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