Soma Fabrications
Soma Double Cross
We’re pleased to welcome Soma Fabrications on-board as a sponsor. Soma’s a cool little company out of San Francisco producing smartly-designed, reasonably-priced, TIG-welded and lugged steel frames. They also produce a nice line of parts and accessories for the urban and utility bicyclist. We hope to have a Soma bike in-house for evaluation later this year.
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Love my soma smoothie es!
Soma, I want to buy one your bikes so bad but I love threaded stems and cant.
I ride Soma Major Taylor bars on my fixed/singlespeed bike and love them. Very well thought out, and the heat treated Cro-mo, while heavy, is so incredibly stiff that you can pull on the bars with all your heart’s desire and it’s all power transfer.
Good timing, as my wife is very happily riding a Soma Buena Vista she got 2 weeks ago!
@Brian C
The Soma Buena Vista Mixte looks like a reasonably priced frame that has some flexibility in setup. What size is your frame, and how did you set it up?
update to my post..seems if I can wait Grant at Rivendell seems to be collaborating with Soma for a Rivendell/Soma style bike. Threaded stem and all
http://somafab.blogspot.com/2010/01/rivendell-collaborates-with-soma-on.html
@Jason
That’s the frame I’m hoping to have for review when they become available later this year.
Alan
Their cross levers were my favorite part of my last bike. Quality stuff.
The CFO is granting me budgetary approval for a new bike this year and the Soma Saga and Double Cross are on the short list. I know any shop that can order from Merry Sales can get Soma, but, if anyone knows a shop Phoenix that would be good to go through I would be very happy to get a recommendation.
As for threadless stems I used to reject them straight out but have since crossed over to the dark side, due largely to the well-reasoned comments from this post http://www.ecovelo.info/2010/02/24/to-thread-or-not-to-thread.
Hate to sound vain, but I was about to buy a Soma Double Cross, the one with just rear Cantis but now it’s only available in white. I was quite excited about the black.
Soma Sparrows are my favorite bars. I love the urban pursuit levers, too – keeps the bars from getting too crowded, and with the sparrows lets me get another comfortable hand position over the bends in the bars.
Alan,
I’d really like to see a review of the Saga as well. There isn’t a lot on the internet about the Saga, and I think that you in particular would have valuable insights into the bike since you ride a LHT and a Hillborn.
Really excited you are going to have Soma on board. I am seriously thinking about a Double Cross build for my first commuter.
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