Yeah I've got a Cross Check. One of the beef gravy brown ones. It's an amazing bike and I've taken it everywhere. I did a tour up the east coast with it and it held up with weight attached to it. Best bike ever. I'll die before I let that thing disappear. But that Trek I just bought, weighs nothing, 23c tires get you around so fast and I only have 80 bucks invested in it. If it goes missing I wouldn't be as heartbroken as losing the Surly.
That's the same bike I've got. 2009 model. It's an amazing bike. My brother and I did a 2 week tour of humboldt county CA last year, a week after I bought it, and the first time I had ridden anything that wasn't fixed since I was a kid.
his LHT is on the left and CC is beef gravy. haha. Those ortliebs were full as fuck too. We had a host of 15 hour days in the saddle, especially climbing through the Kings Range. Do you have a triple? that shit saved my life climbing from sea level to 4000ft. I'd like to score one of the new CC forks, with mid level eyelets for a front rack. Tour with full panniers... oh man, oh man...
here's the LHT again, see the gallon jugs of water bungeed to the front? cattle country and the Hoopa Res. are dangerous as fuck when trying to find a place for water and camp.
i've posted it before, i think, but here's what i ride otherwise. I'd like to build a new one...