I rode over to my LBS and even though the regular fellow there had never visited the xtracyle web site or heard of the Big Dummy, he did look over the list of components I gave him and the BD frame on Surly. He thinks he can build the same bike sold by xtracycle for the same price.

His shop has built several Surly's but no longtails or Xtracycles. He told me how he had to carry in a bike frame on his bike this morning and while we were looking at the Xtracylce web page there was a photo of a BD with an actual bike rack attached to it and a bike being carried on it!

The other good news is, I can watch while my bike is assembled (and they won't charge me extra). So maybe I can learn something by watching.

Now I'm looking forward to my Big Dummy on the road in just a couple of weeks.