Brauer's Wednesday Night Ride report: Cast (in order of appearance): BrauerPower Zye toe Trevver Pete Geigle Cockleburr Corrosion Bodie Butcher (HoboCamp) Giegle rolled up to the bandshell 8 sheets to the wind after starting his adventure at the TownHall at about 1700 hrs. Upon arrival he 'gracefully' dismounted his bike as he prepares for his debut cyclocross race of the year on Sunday. After the requisite handshakes and pleasantries were exchanged, we set out to prepare the city for the HomeyFallFestival. Giegle executed another fabulous (impromptu) dismount a mere 3 blocks from the bandshell. His tireless training regimen is truly…

Surlynews.cough is lucky to have in it's arsenal of whoop-ass many, many field correspondents. They send us stories from all over the globe; stories about races, stories about rides, stories about how and why they overran their (non-existant) expense accounts, stories about random crap, and those are my favorites. For example, take this very Minnesota exchange sent by Mary Gibney & Rusty Jones: (Biker hits a Pedestrian) Pedestrian: What the fuck are you doing! Biker: Fuck you! You walked right into the road! Fucking douche. Pedestrian: Asshole, you ran right into me! Biker: Are you alright? Pedestrian: Yeah, I'm fine.…

Big Dummy without its Xtracycle goodies -----

I woke up bright and early Saturday morning and went for a ride. It was beautiful out and I haven't been on dirt enough this year. I had one of those rides where you feel good throughout, even take a couple extra laps just because you can, and you think 'i'm really ON today!' and you don't even run into a tree. Made me feel all part of the big Whatever, made me feel strong and alive. That night, still feeling good, my lady and I went out to see a show. We were to meet up at a bar…

The Big Dummy came back from Vegas late on Tuesday. It was photo'd as a complete bike, then stripped to be photo'd as a frameset for our catalog and website files. Photos and tech information should be available elsewhere on this site very soon. Please be patient. In the mean time, do a Google search for "Surly Big Dummy" and you'll come up with all sorts of images of the built bike accompanied by opinions and observations galore. The Dummy came home with me tonight mated to the left side of my Xtracycle via the Wideloader. The Stokemonkey battery and…