The Troll has carried my four overstuffed panniers with confidence – a bloated 35kgs worth of gear – be it on or off road. Top tube taken a ding during transport on the roof of a Bolivian bus? It’s chromo, so nothing to be unduly worried about. Worried about issues with the Rohloff? Cheap derailleurs can always be sourced for those infamously cobbled Ecuadorian climbs.
Problem with your discs? V brakes will tied you through and scrub speed down the steepest Andean descents. Blown a tyre sidewall? Even a Colombian hardware store will unearth you a 26in replacement to get you riding again.
All this is great for both practical reasons and peace of mind, particularly if your travels veer you beyond Europe or North America. It ticks a lot of boxes: a burly chromo frame, suspension corrected geometry, 26in wheels, a choice of V brakes or discs, front and rear racks eyelets, room for large volume tyres and provision to run derailleurs or a Rohloff Speedhub. I prefer the path less travelled and the Troll fulfills almost everything I seek in a mountain bike tourer. More recently, it’s reintroduced me to my local Bristolian singletrack, and I’ve now tried it in bikepacking getup on the beautiful but distinctly un-Latin American Devon Coast to Coast. The Troll and I have journeyed together fully laden, and often on dirt roads, from Costa Rica to Ecuador. I’ve now clocked up a few thousand kilometres on the Surly Troll, in several guises – traditional front and rear panniers, framebag, suspension and rigid.
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