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…

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 -----

Johnny Gay Is In The House It's funny what you sometimes find when you do a search for "Surly" on ebay. Trust me, Sov does this on a daily basis. Last week, he was tortured by one listing in particular: A 7-inch single released on Stag records by none other than Johnny Gay (?). The song is titled Slowly But Surly. Yeah, I'm sure you've heard it. Anyhoo, he was too much of a cotton-headed ninny muggins to bid on it, so I finally hit the bid button and now this beauty is mine! It arrived in yesterday's mail sandwiched…