Le Tour de Your-Own-Damn-Self Thinking of a cool tour? How about picking the Tour de France route from your birth year and retracing the whole thing? Sounds cool and original, right? Cool yes - original? Not anymore. Joe from Reno is doing it right now suckers. And he's doing it on a Surly - just like Coppi woulda if he wasn't deader'n hell. Joe's blog Speaking of the Tour, I heard Lance Armstrong is riding RAGBRAI this year. I'm guessing ol' Lance has me beat in terms of talent, hard work, dedication, and determination - but I bet he can't…

This is a picture of Sovern in a bunny suit, floating in Surly's Anomoly Containment Unit. See, Sov was sitting at his desk this morning when I got here, talking to a customer on the phone, and I accidently pushed the wrong button on the Surly Central Processing Command Center computer masterboard. I thought it was the hot chocolate dispensing button. There was a quick, bright flash, the smell of burning hair, and the next thing I knew Sov was about 10% of his original size and inexplicably dressed in a bunny costume. At first I didn't know where he'd…

Steamrollers back in stock very soon 49cm and 56cm Steamroller framesets should be back in stock very soon, either today or Monday. 53cm, 59cm and 62cm should be in stock early next week. Karate Monkeys should be completely stocked by next week also. After these two models, Long Haul Trucker framesets and Cross-Check complete bikes are the only thing we're really hurting on. Utility Blue LHTs and Dark Green or Black Cross-check bikes should be ready 1st week of July. Cherry Red LHTs won't be ready until the end of July. OK, time to go ring my cowbell at the…

Sorry to interupt the shenanigans with a serious blog entry but we want to give a shout out to Sam and Laura who are riding Surly Long Haul Truckers from Washington State to Maine to raise money for IBD. They dubbed their ride "Tour de Guts," and you can read more about their quest by going here. Best wishes on your ride and thanks for supporting Surly! -----

Cotton-headed ninny muggins?!? Oh, that's it. I think it's time for "throw-shit O'clock" -Sov -----