Surly Bikes
We have some new t-shirts. They are so new in fact that we don't have professional images (that's marketing jargon for "nice pictures") yet. Balance that, however, against the simple fact that this first shirt depicts a deer wearing a gasmask. Do I need to draw you a picture? O.K. then....
It comes in short sleeve only for now, in military green and stop sign red. We will soon have a long sleeve in chocolate brown.
And then there's this.
Because of the aforementioned "not hung up on professionalism" images you can't see very well that the clown shown is dripping blood and stars from it's mouth, or that the pooling blood contains the Surly logo, or that the shirt shown is actually bright orange and not sort of yellow as it appears on my screen. This design comes in orange short sleeve, navy blue short sleeve, and black long sleeve. Our shirts are all Anvil brand, made from organic cotton. They are available in sizes Small, Medium, Large, XLarge, and Graceful Hippo.
For those of you who dig tall wool socks such as ours, we have added a new one. We took the design of our Dub-L Stripe sock (black with 2 gray stripes near the top) and applied it to our tall sock, which is a thick, mostly merino wool sock which is warm, comfy, and pairs nicely with over-the-knee tights. I don't have a photo of these at all so far, not even a bad photos, so I have included this image our our regular height (5") Dub-L Stripe sock. The new one is exactly like this except roughly up-to-yer-knees length.
Our socks come in small, medium, large, and XL. Your shop doesn't have them yet, but i am nearly positive they would be more than happy to order one or more for you. And if they aren't happy to do that, you're shopping at the wrong place.
Also first time in stock in the black version of our Steamroller complete bike. This is the new one with Open bar handlebar, 32mm tires, and gearing more attuned to general riding than street-specific. We've had these in the new meth teeths green-grey color, but this is the first we've seen the black ones. They look like this:
And still more product nooze! Our buyer extraordinaire, Phil Raitt, also informs me that Big Dummy frames are in stock, with complete bike versions to follow, but remember to get thee to ye olde bike shoppe if you want one. The rule of the day is, as always, u snooze u looze.
In non-product related news today, a follow-up to the stolen bikes story from too long ago to remember now: local weirdo and good dude Attack Ape Nate got his bikes back! As you may recall, his Surly Steamroller and his Flying Monkey (standard Karate Monkey fitted with S&S couplers) were stolen from his garage, though the thieves left lots of other bikes and much other stuff worth more than the bikes. Nate wrote this follow up to bring closure to his tale:
“First off I want to say much love to the 612 bike community. I now have both my bikes back in my possession. Here's how it all went down:
One week after someone broke in to my garage I got a call from my buddy Jeff. He said a guy knew where my steamroller was, and was trying to get a hold of me. So Jeff called Hurl, Hurl called B-Rose and Brian gave everybody my phone number.
Long story made semi short The Dude's name was Andy Paule. His daughter's wheels, chain, and top tube cover were stolen off her bike at school. Andy was looking on craigslist where he saw his daughter's stuff. He called the number (which was the guy's girlfriend's number) and then went over to this punks house. As it turns out this was some dude that his daughter knew since kindergarten! While he was there he saw a steamroller with Hed wheels and knew there was no way this kid could afford that bike. He went home to check to see if anybody had posted anything about my bike. He found it on the bike jerks web site and then went back to reclaim my bike for me. That was the Friday after Thanksgiving.
When I went to get my bike he told me the kid said he bought it out side a pawn shop for 100. Bucks. THE KID WAS LYING. Then, right when I thought my flying monkey was gone for ever, the cops called me the next Tuesday and asked if I had recovered one of my bike I said," Yes,but how did you know?!"
Now at this point I just have to say me and the po po don't always see eye to eye on most things in life. And seeing how I wanted "an eye for"... or maybe even "a leg for", the theft of my bikes, hearing from these guys at this time seemed a different experience. Thats just a side bar.
Back to the story: so my new best friend; we'll call him "Cop" said they caught three kids trying to break in to a car. The girl with them started crying and told the cop everything. After that he went in and sweated the two boys, and got all the info on my flying monkey.
It turns out that it was a small group of punks that have been robbing a bunch of people in my neighborhood. Any ways the po po served two search warrants and I now have both of my bikes back. It pains me to say but some times some cops are cool. That’s best I can do.”
Sweet, glad you got your bikes back Nate. Hopefully you will recall my sage advice that society tends to frown on middle aged men attacking teenagers, even bike thief teenagers.
::::::::::::::: Finally today, one of the 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters that make up the Surly staff is our long suffering web lackey CoFlo. CoFlo likes the tequilla, loves the freeriding, and sent this video. I'm including it here because of the teaser portion at the beginning. You'll see. Our kind of people.