If you’re thinking to yourself “Why the heck would the fine folks at Surly name a fat bike after a day of the week?” then you’re asking the wrong question. Surly’s latest fat bike takes its name from the morose and slightly sadistic younger sister of Pugsley in the The Addams Family.
Although Surly has no plans to discontinue the Pugsley, the Wednesday is certainly a modernised successor to this first widely available production fat bike, introduced way back in 2005.
Less massive, more manoeuverable
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The Wednesday has a 44mm head tube making it compatible with suspension forks such as the RockShox Bluto
Last year the Surly Ice Cream Truck topped out our fat bike roundup. It’s an exceptionally capable machine when it comes tackling terrain that would otherwise be deemed unridable. “Lumbering onward with determination” is how we described its trail manners in contrast with lighter, more agile fat bikes that lack the Ice Cream Truck’s stability and traction as well as its substantial heft.
Cost-cutting critique
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