It took us three years of discussions to decide which bikes would carry us around the world. In the end, we opted for three Surly Trolls that our local bike store was able to find us at a decent price.

Even when buying past season models like we did, good bikes are expensive. Buying new ones felt like we were going counter to our goal of saving enough money to afford taking a year off to travel. The truth is that we already had...

We got our new bikes today: three beautiful Surly Trolls. Grant, from Tall Tree Cycles in Ottawa, was able to find three older models at a very good price. He's the one who took the picture and posted it on his Instagram account (Grant, if you read this, sorry for stealing your picture).