Rumors suck, and there are a couple of them floating around the internet bike forums about new Surly product coming out for next year. So far, every forum I've read with supposed "insider contacts" has been bogus and untrue. For the record, we are coming out with some brand new products and also tweaking a couple old products this year, like we do every year. We always release this information at tradeshow time, which is early-September during the Eurobike tradeshow in Germany and early-October for the Interbike tradeshow in Las Vegas.

The two main reasons we don't like our dirty little secrets revealed early are:

1) The information is heresay and subject to false interpretation. So what you would read on a forum isn't truthful or accurate.

2) You probably can't get your hands on any of the new goods until the following spring/summer, so why make you wait even longer by releasing the info too early?

So until tradeshow time when people can actually take pictures of the prototype buns we've had in the oven, you will have to wait. As always, thanks for being patient.