Gather 'round. Take a knee. We have some new bits in stock now: Check out the Blockhead sox. They're angular for your pleasure, brown like all good things, wool like Zito's hair, and specifically designed to fill the void space between your shoes and your feet. What more do you want? Like everything else we do, they are available from your favorite bike shop. Go. Order. Luxuriate. Here's some new stuff that's not in stock yet: Big Dummy Complete We originally posted the picture of the Dummy with Xtracycle's new and very suave centerstand. The complete won't come with that…

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"I heartily endorse this service or product!" -Krusty The Klown We here at Surly are proud to call Friends many of the freakier people of this world, fine individuals all who seem so at home in the bell jar of bicycle culture that it may be easy to forget they possess character traits which make them unsuitable for work in the normal channels (traits such as Freekiness, Depressionism, Unbridled Freedom Seeking, Chronic Bicycle Riding, Sideburns, Independence, and Acute Shyness, to name a few), and from this fetid social petri dish periodically surfaces our good friend Luby. When we first met…

Big, dumb problems. I brought them on myself. My Big Dummy's shifting has been all manked up. Ride it 'til it breaks, right? Sometimes that works, but a lot of the time it doesn't. So what did I do? I grabbed another bike -- my fixed gear Cross-Check. I've been riding that for the past two weeks. My Dummy was been my regular commuter all spring and summer long. It made so much sense to ride it everyday, but I was too lazy to get the parts and set the shifting right again. When I did finally make an attempt…

Hello, Sunshine. Introducing a new sheep in the fold ministered by the Branch Surlydian Order of Prophets; a new keeper of the fire that burns without flame; a new procurer of office donuts; the man who single-handedly keeps Old Style distribution alive and well in the Upper Midwest; more seriously, our new Complete Bikes Coordinate Orienteer -- Johnny Kohtz. That's 'Kohtz' like a slicker, not a sleeper. Johnny hails from Nebraska. It's one of those states folks back East sleep through on their way to someplace cool and interesting out West. Sadly, but fortunately for us, he cannot return to…