Thanks for your patience while we were away. We're back now - sunburned, legs full of lactic acid, and ready to get in the squared circle with any foe who chooses to look at us funny. Skip

Hello. Surly is out of the office this week. We're planning things and thinking about stuff. The phones will be turned off and the e-mail will be answered as soon as we return on Monday, May 21.   Thanks, The Management

This is how it all began.  

The best thing about the Single Speed European Championships (well really the best thing about any single speed mountain bike event) is the sense of fun.    Of course, fun is a relative term. Fun means a little something different to everyone, and this event and events like this, take that into account.   For instance: there were some dudes there for whom fun was to jump on their plasticized carbon 29er and ride as fast as they could, not even stopping at the beer tent at the halfway point, racing to the end with fury on their faces and…

It's not just another gravel event...