We just received our long-awaited arrival of new Pugsley frames.

They went back to the drawing board (which for Surly, is a slab of concrete where they draw with (lit) charcoal briquets) with the Pugsley and made a few changes. We’re excited to get them in and get them out. Come get one.

The color is something. Surly, depending where you look, calls it Split Pea Green or Grampa’s Jammies. Both are close. We know Surly makes it a point to bust all trends with its color choices, but this is the new champion for unique bicycles colors. Both of my mechanics are color-blind, which left me with the difficult task of describing this color using other colors – a difficult task. Brown family? Yellow based? Inbred Green relative? Other names that come to mind are Bung Khaki, Vomit Comet, Pugly, and Harvest… something.

We also received a pair of Larry tires for G. Sherck’s Pugsley project. Nice tires.

The new Pacer complete is a smart bike. We’ve been fans of the Pacer for years and I think having a stock complete will help spread the love. The complete comes with Salsa Short and Shallow bars (nice bars) and 700×28 Conti tires (nice tires). We added the Brooks Pro and brown tape to finish it off (makin it nice).

Nice stuff.

Hot off the presses!

Salsa Cycles will introduce titanium versions of their Mariachi, A La Carte, and La Cruz frames in 2010.

Ti Mariachi Complete

The bikes will be built in the USA by Lynskey. Pre-orders are available for first shipment in March 2010.

Ti Ala Carte Frame

The frame will be $1750 and NCC will have a suggested complete package available before January.

Ti La Cruz frame

Callers are standing by…

We just received our first of the new “Velvet Blue” Surly Long Haul Trucker framesets.

The hotly debated “Velvet Blue” replaces the Olive Green color.

Evidently there aren’t too many of these puppies available. We snagged a few (56cm, 58cm, 62cm) before they were gone.

If you want one, give us a buzz.

Rusty inspect the merchandise.

We recently made “arrangements” to become deeelers of the Louis Garneau product lines. If you don’t know what it takes for a bike shop to become an authorized dealer of such-and-such brands, let me tell you, it can be an experience. It has to do with all sorts of forms, background checks, strangers with  collapsable showcases of ruffled clothing telling you what women really want to buy next year and sometimes we get free socks. Our experience getting started with LG was scary good and a welcome change to the typical runaround. After a generic email to their website, I was impressed by a series of reps doing their jobs really well.

All that being said, the product is now in the store. Mostly winter stuff. Now’s the time to get it, yaknow. (those bozos are calling for snow tonight…)

LG makes a dizzying array of clothing and they have a nice selection of winter gear. We brought in some toasty jerseys, jackets, a boatload of gloves and assorted shoe covers. The T-Covers are slick little toe covers that are perfect for those days that are too cold for toe warmers but not cold enough to merit the ol booties. i am a nerd…

Here’s a test to see if anyone actually reads this blog. If you come in this weekend (Fri or Sat) and buy a LG product, mention this post to get 10% off and a free NCC mug.

For the second year in a row, the kind people at Brooks have bestowed on us one of their Dealers of Excellence awards. The award this year was a B17 standard saddle with the fur intact.

The “Shaggy” B17 is number 57 out of the 100 in the world and fewer than 50 saddles were awarded in the United States. It’s somewhat comical to visit Brooks’ Stockists page and see DeKalb listed alongside the greater bike meccas of the world: Portland, LA, Sacramento, Denver, Davis, and more. The award is not so much a sales award as it is an award of congruence. Brooks recognizes the dealers who are, in their own words, “[their] best ambassadors.”

We can’t take full credit for the award, though. We really owe it to all the folks who believed us when we promised that the saddles would break in and the people who still choose to invest good money in well-made products designed to last. Thank you.

For more pics, check out our Flickr set.

And stay tuned, Brooks fans, because NCC has a special event coming up February 6th, 2010  that will need to be etched in your calendar.  Full disclosure coming soon…