Surly email seems to be up and working again. Contact us at derby@surlybikes.com with all those questions causing you sleepless nights and gaping ulcers. We'll do our best to get you on one of our bikes and relieve all the troubles. -----

Hi. For those of you planning on building up a Pugsley, please remember that this is a weird bike with, um, special needs. Check this out: *135mm hub spacing front AND REAR *use rear disc caliper adapters FRONT AND REAR *wheels need to be built 17.5mm offset (reverse dished, basically)*adapter tool for building offset wheels comes with each Pugsley frame. *we have specially drilled Large Marge rims specifically for Pugsleys (the frame offset requires offset drilling of the spoke holes too). Pug specific LM part numbers are: RM0008, RM0009, & RM0010. These rims are not yet available but we should…

Public Radio is cool. Ever heard the show Weekend America? Well, they were doing a piece on President Bush falling off his bike (and David Zabriskie crashing in the Tour), and they wanted to interview someone who knows how to fall down. So, they called me. Wow. Is it that obvious? I was flattered. If you want to tune in, it will be aired tomorrow (Saturday, July 9) and the times will vary with your local public radio station. Here in the Twin Cities it's on KNOW 91.1 at noon. Neato. -----

Last night, I laced up a 24" Large Marge uni wheel and installed it in my first homebuilt uni frame...made from a 1x1 fork. I'm using an Intense DH 24 x 3.0 tire. As expected, the Large Marge rim makes the tire more laterally stable compared to the narrower rim I had been using. The increased footprint will provide more float and traction in the soft stuff. -----

Single Speed World Championships 2005. That's pretty much all I have to write. If you're of a certain camp, you read that and probably have already moved on to a different web page. Others read it and rolled their eyes but kept reading, hoping it was just an isolated aftershock, some random burp before this year's event is finally digested and left alone. There is another group who read that line and kept reading willingly, perhaps even out of rapt curiosity. Many of these people are not 'bike' people, in that they do not (yet) have that disease that makes…