Frostbike, the QBP open house thing, is in full swing, complete with a Tyr tri clothing fashion show. What? In spite of that, and in spite of the colder-than-a-witch's-tittie-in-a-brass-bra climate which descended upon our fair city one day before the event (from upper twenties to 10 below zero in a couple of days), everybody seems to be having a good time. The crue from Japan wanted to ride Pugsleys so we took them out friday morning. My ear lobe got frostbitten (peeling skin!!) but we saw a bald eagle by the river and the morning was just plain sunny and…

I participated in the 2nd Annual Arrowhead 135 mile Winter Ultra Race last week. It was my first attempt at this type of marathon cold-weather event, and I surprised myself with a 2nd place finish. No sleep, lots of high-calorie junk food, and good ol' Pugsley got me from start to finish in 19 hours and 59 minutes. 32 racers registered: 5 runners, 2 skiers and 25 cyclists. 16 finished: 2 runners, 14 cyclists. I counted 11 Surlys during registration…8 Pugsleys, 3 1x1s. Many of the non-Surly frames were sportin' Large Marge rims and/or Endomorph tires. Surly was representin'. The…

Tonight, First Avenue Mainroom: Wednesday, February 08 Main Room 8:00 PM / 21+ ENGLAND SWINGS V featuring HEAVY SLEEPER, THE DEATHS, THE FLAMIN' OHS, THE WAG, REVOLVER MODELE, THE MELISMATICS, THE NEW FLOORSHAKERS, THE MIGHTY MOFO'S, FAB TAB & THE TEDS, THE SCREENS and ALTERED BEASTS $5.00 advance $7.00 door Flamin' Ohs? The Deaths? New Floorshakers (not sure about this, but the old Floorshakers were good)? MIGHTY F*CKIN' MOFOS?! Get thee to First Ave tonight! LATE BREAKING NEWS: Surly News Globular HQ has just been informed of an impending local show by the one and only Andre Williams, Friday, Feb…

UPDATE: "Legislators changed that today after being flooded with messages from bike riders." -----

Check out this article from the Seattle Times: Seattle Times Fixie Article Sure it's one of those "dig this new trend - it's called fixed gear" articles, but it features the president of a finance company who rides a Steamroller. -photo Ken Lambert The Seattle Times "I feel a lot more free because you don't do anything other than pedal," he says. "It's the very basics of riding. It's like cooking a really good meal but doing everything from scratch." Word. We're real proud of this. Surly is for everyone brothers and sisters. Never forget that. Also, Adam Smith who's…