cccorlew

My wife loves hers!
She rides every day, rain or shine. Check this blog post (with photo and video)
https://ccorlew.blogspot.com/2010/01/wind-and-rain.html


cross check fenders by ccorlew, on Flickr

diff

So I ended up getting a steamroller and not a cross check.

But cross check is still on my list. I love all of the surly bikes. Would take a LHT, karate monkey, pacer, big dummy, and cross and ride them all. Very cool company.

FKMTB07

I hear ya. I've got a Steamroller, Cross-Check, and Karate Monkey. Used to also have an Instigator (now I regret selling it, since they stopped making them). Will be getting a Pugsley complete from the shop I work at soon probably. Wouldn't mind a fixed 650b'ed 1x1 just for the hell of it. Would LOVE a Big Dummy (waiting until I get a house or condo on the ground floor). Their new trailer and Troll look intriguing. My favorite bars of all time are the zero-rise Open Bar. Have been using Surly cogs and lockrings on my fixed gears since the beginning. Great products.

LeeG

got one as a frame intending to set it up with IGH then changed my mind and put on a single 38t chainring with 11-28 8spd.
Rode it that way for a year. Was thinking of light touring bike and long tour but other things happened and I set it up with 30/44 double and chainguard and 12-32 8spd. Right bar end shifter and left down tube shifter. Cascadia fenders, Axiom Streamliner rear rack, small Velo-Orange Nitto type front rack, Son generator and Light On headlight. Heavy sucker now.

MVclyde

I commute on a Cross Check that I built up this summer. I bought the frame off Craig's List. I built it up with SRAM Rival groupset (minus breaks), Paul Touring brakes, Thomson seat post, Cane Creek headset, and Ritchey Comp stem and handlebars. I already had a set of Deep V wheels and a Prologo saddle. I put a Jandd rack on it, and recently got a set of Honjo fenders that I haven't installed yet. I had a blast building this thing. One of these days I'll post a picture. Maybe after I install the fenders.

Oh, and my lights just arrived today.....Magicshine front and Planet Bike rear. More is more when it comes to lighting....these things are bright!!

So far so good. I like the Cross Check as a commuter.

PS.... 12x25 cassette with 50-34 crankset. 700c x 28 tires.

Bekologist

snowice2008.jpg crosscheck in the snow, studs, 3x9 drivetrain.

531phile 

Is that monkey electric lights on the spokes?

meanwhile

That's because most are configured for cross racing (cross racers carry their bikes up the steep sections) which is not what a Cross Check is good. The Check is a a very versatile drop handle bike that can go off road; a triple makes perfect sense.

cccorlew

In the video link? yes it is!

modernjess

Yes. Who wouldn't? Mine is a year round commuter/town bike I built up from the frame new. Fenders, rack, brooks saddle, several sets of wheels. In the 4+ years I've had it has been set up as:
- Drop bar, single speed/fixie
- Drop bar, IGH 8 speed.
- Flat bar, single speed, studded tire winter machine.
- Currently an Albatross bar single speed. (which might be my favorite set up yet)
- Soon to be and Albatross bar, IGH 8 speed, studded tire winter bike.

Needless to say I love it dearly, and I love the versatility. I love the way it changes with the seasons. I highly recommend it.