As previous posts have suggested, we took a little vacation last week to go ride bikes, sit around, crack a few cold ones, watch sticks burn, and build team unity while simultaneously blue-skying some measureables and delivering on some Boing-related wellness initiatves. It was fun. The destination was Minnesota's newest dirt riding destination called Cuyuna, or more specifically, the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area. It's pretty damn nice riding, and I really can't encourage you enough to get yourself there to do that. Flowing, fun, orange trails snake around and between lakes that were once iron mining pits. Sounds hyper-industrial,…

Thanks for your patience while we were away. We're back now - sunburned, legs full of lactic acid, and ready to get in the squared circle with any foe who chooses to look at us funny. Skip

Hello. Surly is out of the office this week. We're planning things and thinking about stuff. The phones will be turned off and the e-mail will be answered as soon as we return on Monday, May 21.   Thanks, The Management

This is how it all began.  

The best thing about the Single Speed European Championships (well really the best thing about any single speed mountain bike event) is the sense of fun.    Of course, fun is a relative term. Fun means a little something different to everyone, and this event and events like this, take that into account.   For instance: there were some dudes there for whom fun was to jump on their plasticized carbon 29er and ride as fast as they could, not even stopping at the beer tent at the halfway point, racing to the end with fury on their faces and…