In various biological systems and small scale technological applications particlestransiently bind to a cylindrical surface. Upon unbinding the particles diffuse in thevicinal bulk before rebinding to the surface. Such bulk-mediated excursions give rise toan effective surface translation, for which we here derive and discuss the dynamicequations, including additional surface diffusion. We discuss the time evolution of thenumber of surface-bound particles, the effective surface mean squared displacement, andthe surface propagator. In particular, we observe sub- and superdiffusive regimes. Aplateau of the surface mean-squared displacement reflects a stalling of the surfacediffusion at longer times. Finally, the corresponding first passage problem for thecylindrical geometry is analysed.