Unsurprisingly, we didn't have a booth at Interbike this year, but we did have our flagship frameset the San Marcos on display in the Japanese Pavilion.
Here's a picture that American Cyclery took after building it up.
(find more pics at American Cyclery's Facebook)
As some astute facebook stalkers may already have noticed the San Marcos are beginning to come with fork blade mini racks mounts. This is a feature we're adding to a few models in our line starting for 2014.
Hanging out in the Japanese Pavilion has some perks, and we got sneak peeks at a few exciting new products.
Nitto's new machined alloy stems look stunning. These will be a great match for our 31.8 bars like the Soma Highway 1 and the Eagle Bar.
Dia Compe showed off some new ENE Ciclo 3 bolt wide range touring double cranks. Can't wait to get our hands on these. They should work great with our new Grand Randonneur frame.
Speaking of which, the first batch of production GR framesets are due in sometime in the next week or so. We'll get pictures of the production framesets as soon as we get them unpacked. We expect these to sell out, so contact Boulder Bicycles if you haven't pre ordered yours yet.
Miyata, the venerable Japanese bike maker had some new stuff on display too. This bike is built for 650a (aka 26x1 3/8") tires. 650b is so over.
This Rivendell Homer was chilling out at the SKS booth. Riv built this bike up with a healthy dose of Japanese style.
Panaracer was on hand with a sample of our new Grand Randonneur tires. They're a true 42mm slick with tubular casing for a ridiculously compliant tire. Don't worry Rivvies, we're doing a bomb-proof touring version too.
Minoura showed off the New Albion Homebrew, a lugged steel road/cyclotouring bike launching in 2014.
The Homebrew will be sold as a complete bike, with IRD Brakes, Sunrace crank and derailleurs, Rivendell Silver downtube shifters, and Soma Roundwise handlebars.
The 2nd model from New Albion is the Starling, a do-anything mixte frame with clearance for 700x38c tires with fenders.
Keep an eye out for more products coming from New Albion in the coming months.
Well, that's it for Interbike 2013. Keep checking back for more updates from the 2014 Soma Fab lineup. We've got a lot of awesome new products on the way, including new complete models of the ES, Double Cross Disc, Saga and Buena Vista!
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