Tradeshow's over. Be gentle with us. New stuff's on the website. We've called in ServiceMaster to clean up after your party. That was the final straw. It's military school for you. -Skip

We're all out of the office this week doing the tradeshow thing. There's $20 on the table for pizza. Call if there's trouble. And don't hit your sister.

We thought we'd go ahead and show you our goods early this year. Lots of you have seen photos from Eurobike on the Information Superhighway. Usually, we quite enjoy dangling our secret things just out of sight making clever allusions and moderately witty sidelong comments until the big Interbike show in Las Vegas. But, we're just going to go ahead and blurt out the answers this time. E-mail us if you have questions - derby@surlybikes.com Trailer Features: It will haul 300lbs of stuff Two lengths available – short (32” - pictured) and long (64”) DIY mounts all over it. Make your own…

If you told me I could only have one bike in the world I'd punch you in the face. Then, while I was in the back of the squad car I'd think to myself, "If I had one bike it would be the Cross-check." Not everyone at Surly feels this way, but it's where I come down on the subject. It's tough. It can morph Transformer-style into just about any kind of riding you do (just about.) And I simply look really good on one. I wanted to lay down a small change we've made on it and give a…

So, there I was, rummaging around the Surly Deep Dark Braincave and I saw this written on a Cuzzy's napkin:   "135mm front hub Ho-hos Polo hubs in 48 hole drilling - 100mm, 120mm fix/fix, 120mm free/free, 135mm fix/fix, 135mm free/free 100mm 1x1 fork 135mm symmetrical Pug fork Meat 120 tpi and 27 tpi tires Tall socks Junk Strap 6-packs Carton of Kools"   After the Kools, the napkin was torn - as if the list was much longer and cooler, but maybe that information was too sensitive even for the inner circle. I should also mention that the napkin…