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This Weeks Theme…BIKES
Lots of Crosschecks and Stragglers this week. Bikes infront of graffiti along with a couple of really cool Xtracycle builds and the usual suspects. Must mean spring is... Well I don't want to jinx...
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Weekend Vacation
Sometimes you have to get away from the regular weekend deal of washing socks, scooping out the cat poop, and scrubbing the lineoleum. Occasionally, if you live in a cool place, you can take a vacation...
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Hold On Loosely but Don’t Let Go
Spring has arrived in the part of Minnesota where most of us live. 42 degrees yesterday morning at 6:00 felt like summer compared to what we had been experiencing. I set out to cleaning my garage...
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I’ll Take an Icy Street Over an Icy Heart Any Day.
I’ve ridden a bike as a means of transportation for a pretty long time and in a lot of different cities across the country. If I count places I’ve merely visited as well as places I’ve lived, I think...
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Bike Shop Hop anyone?
So here's an idea....let's all go ride bikes. Have you heard of CycloFemme? I hadn't till just recently. I have been charged with putting together alittle shin dig of a ride to support and celebrate...
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Stupid Awesome Weather
I had this really cool blog all planned out about the city that I live in and how fucking cool it is. I was going to ride around on Saturday and take lots of pictures and write this epic tome....
View ArticleNew Bike Day Ponderings
As a copywriter for Surly bikes, it’s my job to write blog posts when Tyler walks up to me and says “nobody feels like writing a blog post. Write a blog post.” Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t...
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CycloFemme Ride Details - May 11th
So here is what I am thinking: Gather at Freewheel Bike - Midtown location. They open at 9AM and sell coffee and such. Roll out at 11AM heading east on Midtown Greenway to the West River Parkway. Mid...
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Trevor and Tyler’s Romantic Get-a-way…
So a few weeks ago Trevor and I were lucky enough to head over the sea and visit some of our riders, dealers and get some riding done and drink a beer or two. Every time I go out of the country I...
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Trevor and Tyler’s Romantic Get-a-way…
So a few weeks ago Trevor and I were lucky enough to head over the sea and visit some of our riders, dealers and get some riding done and drink a beer or two. Every time I go out of the country I...
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Surly’s In The Wild
The weather here (probably like the rest of the country) has been real shitty lately. While waiting for the trails to dry out something has to be done with the nervous energy...sounds like the perfect...
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A New Hope
We’d like to take a moment to introduce a new member of our team to you. Her name is Kate and you’d be wise to listen up. She’s the person you might get on the phone or on the e-mails, so we wanted you...
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From the email vault
All of us love our jobs and we love our customers, but you know what? Sometimes we don't love our jobs, and sometimes instead of spending the day talking to people who get Surly and love it for what it...
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CycloFemme Ride - The Aftermath
The ride took place Sunday May 11, 2014 and it was all sorts of goodness. Kate and I handed out jerseys to the fast arriving participants. Mimosas were poured and consumed. Coffees were spiked and the...
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If Common Knowledge and Common Sense Were Actually Common
If Common Knowledge and Common Sense Were Actually Common Think of How Much Less Room We’d All Have In Our Brains There are things about Surly: deep, dark things. Things most folks don’t know about us....
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He Was the Man for His Place and Time
It's funny, when I first started this Friday picture dump blog day thing; I never thought it would go on this long. We had just launched the dump, and it has some pretty rad bikes buried in there. I...
View ArticleDon’t ride boring bikes and don’t listen to boring music
So I know this is a bike blog and that is mostly what you folks out there in the vast world of The Internets want to read about when you drunkenly stumble over to our website; talk of the latest two...
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Creativity. The Devil’s Handiwork?
So there was this guy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778). He wrote, what was at the time, a very famous essay called “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences”. In which he basically states...
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