Originally Posted by geoffvsjeff

Right.

And again, I have nothing against BD. My point was more along the lines of what mconlonx said - why would QBP sell their stuff through BD, when a lot of the BD fixes are more or less competing with Surly for that "entry level fixie" market. There seems to be a perception that Surly is a step above BD in terms of quality - or at least durability. How much of that is fact and how much of that is brand image is debatable.
But by putting a steamroller next to a Kilo TT (despite the fact that the Kilo TT costs half as much), it puts the thought in one's head that "surly is a BD-quality bike."

I was always amazed at some of the distribution stories and drama that went on back when I was privy to such information, and I was really just trying to see if there was any dirt/gossip about this deal. It very well could be as boring as, "they are trying to make an extra buck." But maybe someone at QBP ran over the cat* of someone at Eriks with a Pugsley, prompting the person from Eriks to shout, "Those tires are huge!" but the person from QBP thought the person from Eriks was talking about their girlfriend, and decided to retaliate by selling a couple models through BD. Maybe that is what happened.

*Because of the large tires, the cat was fine.