Thanks everyone for your helpful responses. I very much appreciate them.
This brings to mind something that I have been thinking of, and that is creating a group specific to Surly LHT owners.
As a result, at Smartgroups, I have created a group called "Surly Long Haul Trucker (LHT) Owners Group, which is located here...

http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/SurlyLHT

...I just created it today. I thought this might be a great place for us LHT owners to discuss our LHT's.

Anyway, it's there, so if you are interested in joining and getting things rolling, please point your browser to the above URL, and hope to see you there.

Thanks again.