Originally Posted by
robmcl
Very good question. I am thinking the
Surly Pugsley is what you want. Chain stays are 44.8 cm compared to 46.0 cm for the Long Hall Trucker. 26" wheels with plenty of room for big tires and fenders. Looks like it has all of the braze-ons for racks and disk brakes. More of a MTB/ expedition bike then the LHT. Surly frames are some of the most reasonable. This with fork about $600. You can contact Surly and ask how good of a touring/expedition bike it would make. It looks like it is designed for it.
Here`s a bike trip of 2000km though the Australian outback- does that qualify as an expedition?
http://www.wildworks.co.nz/csr/route.php
He used a Pugsly with an Extrawheel. There`s a problem with using that kind of equipment though- Pugslys and other fat bikes use special components that are expensive and probably imposible to find if you don`t have time to order from the internet. In the case of hte guy in Australia, if something needed replacing, he was going to be SOL no matter what, so it didn`t much matter how obscure his bike was.