Which Fixie, Eddy Merckx or Surly

RobFowl

ROK ON

Neither have great frames or finish kit to be honest. But the Surly has a nice saddle.

morninwood

This actually calls for a poll.

I vote Surly.

Chips Lovell

Merckx all the way. I've never even heard of Surly before. At least you know Merckx has a pedigree with frame design. Looks nicer too.

blorg

The Merckx is a much nicer bike. Surlys are mass produced for people with beards.

Lumen

Much as I like the aesthetics of the Merckx arrangement, from a fixie cyclocross perspective I don't much like the Merckx woman's portaging technique. Those bars are going to be swinging all over the place, not to mention the chainring stains on her dress, which she's presumably going to have to stuff into her underwear in order to mount the bike..

I am also not overly keen on overplucked eyebrows.

On that basis the Surly wins, because she actually looks like she is going to ride the bike.

ROK ON

The surly is dirty.

rottenhat

el tonto wrote: »

Merckx all the way. I've never even heard of Surly before. At least you know Merckx has a pedigree with frame design. Looks nicer too.

I suspect you're lying, but Surly is the house brand of the biggest parts distributor in the US, QBP - the Surly Steamroller was about the first mass produced fixie (as opposed to track if you see what I'm getting at) frame. Perfectly solid, workmanlike bike with good tyre clearance and so on. Nothing wrong with them at all - I rode one for a year or two.

I'd probably take the Merckx too - it does look nicer, and Merckx steel frames were always reputed to be built like a brick ****house, and (crucially) it says Eddy Merckx on it.

ROK ON wrote: »

The surly is dirty.

Surlys are always dirty - it's part of the branding.

blorg

Lumen wrote: »

Much as I like the aesthetics of the Merckx arrangement, from a fixie cyclocross perspective I don't much like the Merckx woman's portaging technique. Those bars are going to be swinging all over the place, not to mention the chainring stains on her dress, which she's presumably going to have to stuff into her underwear in order to mount the bike..

She's holding the bike with the drivetrain away from her and holding the bars with her other hand to prevent them swinging. That's one of the ways I was shown anyway.

Lumen

blorg wrote: »

She's holding the bike with the drivetrain away from her and holding the bars with her other hand to prevent them swinging. That's one of the ways I was shown anyway.

Doh, you're right. I didn't see the arm hiding behind the downtube.

Can't think what distracted me, must have been the lugs.