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A Fistful of Monkey

Here is a little something that we've been working on for about nineteen years. At last.....enjoy.    

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Take a Look

Our nerdy elves have been hard at work thinking up new Surly options for your bicycling needs. I hope you like them. The Ice Cream Truck What do you get when you chain a Moonlander, an Instigator, and...

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Words of Wisdom From the FNG

Oh, hi. How’s it going? I’m Fleck. One of the new kids on the blog. Sort of.  I worked for Surly a while back, peddling, and pedaling, bikes on the international fronts. I was somewhere in Europe...

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It’s Friday, We’ve Got a Dump…Whatalife!

On Monday we'll have some info on a new bike or two that we're unveiling Tomorrow at Frostbike.  But I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise right now.  So here's some fun pictures of bikes to stare at....

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What in the Sweet Hell is an Ogre1.0 or My Troubles Are Over Cuz Now I Can...

Here is the deal, true believers:  Were you one of those folks who really really wished you got yourself an orange Troll or a Green Ogre? Well we’ve got them.  Usually in this bike industry, when a...

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Engineering Controlled Recipe

the ECR is our any road escape machine. it borrows features from many of our other bikes. Troll/Ogre type dropouts: 29+ Tire and Rim platform from the Krampus but it's geometry is a bit different from...

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Whiskey in the jar

Bikes are cool.  You know what else is cool?  Having other hobbies besides bikes.  I am very fortunate to have a job designing things that have to do with my current favorite hobby, but variety is the...

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In Defense Of The Insane

How much do bike mechanics get paid? (via gomeansgo.org) I'm gonna take advantage of this digital soapbox for a few minutes and tell you something you probably know already: It doesn't take a...

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A Treatise on Pants Installation and Modification

Now that Surly has decided to start producing pants I thought I’d go over some the issues that pertain to the installation, modification and removal of said pants.  I was pretty excited to get mine...

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In Defense Of The Insane

How much do bike mechanics get paid? (via gomeansgo.org) I'm gonna take advantage of this digital soapbox for a few minutes and tell you something you probably know already: It doesn't take a...

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Surly Catalog Covers

It's catalog season here at Surlyville and it has me thinking about...well, the catalog. I thought I would use my knack for finding old files to bring you this blog post.  This can be challenging...

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Whiskey in the jar

Bikes are cool.  You know what else is cool?  Having other hobbies besides bikes.  I am very fortunate to have a job designing things that have to do with my current favorite hobby, but variety is the...

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Lady Parts in Surly Pants

Female Cycle Nerds: You may be interested to know that there appears to be a special formula to lady parts successfully fitting into Surly pants. These pants were not made with a woman in mind. We...

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2014 Disc Trucker Review

"The people at Surly are STUPID if they don't attach this video to their website. Heck, they need to HIRE this guy as a company spokesman. This is one of the best bike review videos Ive ever seen."...

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Stuff That’s Neat

More pictures from our ever-growing dump. Enjoy Pretty neat huh? I don't know about you, but it's above freezing here. Time for a ride.  

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Why the Straggler is the Way it Is

Why is the Straggler the way it is?  Because we made it that way! The Straggler is kinda like a Cross-Check with disc brakes.  Because, why not?  Everybody loves the Cross-Check and what’s not to love...

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Solving the One Bike Conjecture

This last weekend I used my Big Dummy to help teach a big dummy (Tyler) how to build wheels.  Tyler wanted to learn how to build wheeles on a set of 650b hoops he had for some project so I told him...

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You Like What You See?

More pictures this week from our image dump.  I try to update the photos every week, but sometimes I don't get to it.  There's about 45 more since last we spoke, these are my favorites. Enjoy.

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Goodbye Winter?

Yesterday was the last day to ride the trails around here.  We had a week of near average high temps that melted a pretty good chunk of the snowpack but the trees were still holding on to a good...

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What month is this?

Do you like Surly? Do you live in The USA? Are you a fan of numbers? Have you ever wondered what month it is? Do you have a hard time remembering what year it is? Would you like a free Surly calendar?...

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