Longtime Surly pal Charlie The Bikemonger, who started the Big Dummy Society wrote recently: Hi Guys, I am recovering from a jolly good night with your Mr Fleck and his kilt at Core Bike (a bike retailer show in the UK). Thanks Surly. Anyway he said I should share my view that gears cause global warming, it started some debate in the bar... so I have attached the full on info on why we are all doomed and how gears are obviously causing it all. Feel free to pop it on your blog, or where ever, or nowhere. All the…

So very much is happening these days, it's a wonder we have time for a new decade.  Lots of stuff to talk about today, way too much to hit everything sent in or found by the button pushers in Sector 7G here at Surly Intergalactic Dog Grooming, Wedding Planning, and Bike Stuff.  There is no common theme here, so let's just dig in. Occasional messages make it through to us from our Colorado field correspondent and officially unofficial Surly rider Chris Alabama.  Chris’s house, like many of yours, is less of an actual home-type house and more like a garage/stable/storage…

We receive a lot of email of the LHT testimonial variety around here.  So much, in fact, that it’s neither practical nor interesting enough to post it all on this blog.  That’s what she said.  Anyway, last summer while in Japan, Fleck and I had the pleasure of drinking with a French dude named Brice Bignami, who had recently purchased a Long Haul Trucker that he was planning to ride from Tokyo to Paris.  That’s really far, and because there are large bodies of water that separate the land masses in between, potentially very wet.    Over the weekend I…

Hearty Midwest livin' will give you a keen appreciation for the difference between Tornado Watch (conditons favorable for the development) and  Tornado Warning (Tornado or Funnel Cloud spotted) Here's the Watch. (As in "Johnny made we watch this." ) http://www.foosmovie.com/foosball_presskit_johnny_horton.htm   Here we learn from the Great Mr Horton, "America doesn't love you. America loves a winner." Conditions are favorable for development.   Here's the Warning: Tornado seen in South MPLS, heading towards NE at 10-15 miles per hour.   This beast has been resurrected. Its rods turn once more.   Yes, Big Dummy facilitates all kinds of things. No,…