This year, we're celebrating our 19th anniversary of being a thing. We'll probably forget to do it next year for our 20th year, so while it's in our collective heads we figured we'd better act.
We'll start off the thanks with us. That is, all of the us who have officially worked under the tattered Surly umbrella over these nearly two decades.
Those us are:
Wakeman
Grayboy
Hurl
Nick Fucking Sande
Corson (Randy Chu-Hi)
Sov
Peter
Emily
Trevor
Jim
Pie Plow
Fleck
Johnny
Alix
Bob the Animal
Cate
Wood
Verdoorn
Kate
Adam
Ben O
Greggers
Tyler
Christina
Alex
Thor
Skogs
Jeff
Amy
Ben J
Joel
Jesse
Aaron D
Jandora
Pintz Guzld
Then, there are the Honorable Mention Us:
Yafro
Brauer
CoFlo
Blake
Billy D
Tanner
Gage
Stone Tone
EK
Chewy
Captain
Manderson
Leeche and Joe
Gene
Chipps
Maurice
Brad Q
The Wizard
Reed
Chef
Bama
Jessica
Hjerpe
Cass
Zito
Pat Irwin
Rie
Colby
The Peters
Charlie Bikemonger
Pat Joscelyne
BRose
Duke
B Wolfe
The Corys
Coast Kid
Nate
McGruff
Kopish
Cheever
The Wrexican
Bootsy
Bernie
Deep
Wes
SSBS
Steve Freakin' Flagg
Flasky
And, finally, we could not have become who we are collectively without:
The color black
BMX
Funny cars
Bars without windows
Red Fang
Sabbath
Conan
Freddie Mercury
Ibuprofen
Neil Young
Flat Pedals
Fruita
Denim
Five gallon buckets
Sweet jumps
Fire
Ramen
Wednesday Night
Thursday Morning
Highway 1
Coffee
Surabhi Buffet
Tom Waits
Small rectangular stickers
The MC5
Guitar solos
Chopsticks
Drum solos
Deer paths
RUN DMC
Leather
Ninja stars
Toob sox
Bowie
Brown liquor
Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson
Jorts
Custodians of Lake Harriet picnic area
Full moons
Tin foil
Skinny dipping
Casa Flores
Von's
Office reorgs
Kaoliang
El Rancho Boulder
Dog tennis
The Sharpie
Coaster hubs
The endo
Bill Hicks
The ridiculousness of humanity and humor in general
Chiggers
Horizontal dropouts
News Radio
We specifically want to call out the people without whom none of this would be possible:
You
Bike shops everywhere
Our international distributors
The people at Q who pay the bills, keep us out of jail, answer the phone, keep the computers computing, make the building work, wrench the demos, and keep the spreadsheets.
And, finally, all of the people from day one until today who pick, pack, label, and ship all of the things to all of the places. Without you, there is nothing.
So, thanks. Really.
-Skip