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…

Some people take the whole 666, number of the beast, be afraid of the devil, pentagram, upside down cross thing quite seriously. For us, it's an excuse to play loud metal music and scare people, or attract people, or confuse people. So we started off the morning with a headbanging ride to work. Blake arranged the playlist to include Slayer, Black Sabbath, Motorhead and many others. We started out at Leder Brothers metal scrap in South Minneapolis, because that is where dead Surly bikes are sent to their grave. In the foreground, you'll see my latest incarnation of the Xtracycle…

First, Lara kicks ass. Second, I neglected to say anything about this earlier but it's cool enough to warrant mention late in the game even though the TransIowa race is bedded down in the history pamphlets for another year. Surly gave a frame as a prize for this year's TransIowa race, which turned out this year to be one big gravelly bog snorkel. It was so tough (and it's supposed to be tough) that no one actually finished. The video I saw shows people slogging it through the ditches because the roads themselves were too swampy. TransIowa mastermind Jeff Kerkove…

Cassette Cogs Update Hell yah, I just inspected the cassette cogs and they look great. We should be seeing the following sizes go into stock by Wednesday (hopefully) of this week: 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22t. -----