Cardiff Cowhide Saddles in White

The SomaFab Shop just picked up a handful of these new offerings from Cardiff. White has been popular with the roadie and track crowd as of late. Let's see what those who are jonesin' for a more 'classic' (vintage, whatev) look for their bike will think of these saddles. The Cardiff Ltd. website is finally active if you want to investigate furthur.



Just to show this blog isn't just for schlepping bike gear, we offer this public service message: Get out to your local library. Check out and listen to CD's, view DVD's for free. Read books. Amazon and B&N shouldn't be the first places you think about when looking for books.

This cute bike rack is located outside the newly remodeled Richmond District Library in San Franciso off Clement St. Pick up some dim sum at one of the Chinese delis, or a Vietnamese sandwich and spread out on the fresh lawn with a good book.

New Saddles Are Up On The Website

These are hitting shops beginning next week.

2008 Frame News and Other Updates

[Orginally posted Oct 2, 2007 on the mother site]
• Our Kamisori and Ensho saddles hit the warehouse today. In October, just as we said! That's a first. These are slick looking colored saddles with a CrMo rail price instead of a Ti rail price that most colored race saddles have.

• We have a Flickr page: It is mainly for posting older frame pix and Soma owner pix, but we did post a a pic of the new 650b MTB concept bike over there.

• 2008 Soma Rush: We will be phasing out the Fiery Red color and introducing a Pearl White. If you think white is a little 'played out', you can still get it in black. But our new Japanese distributor, Tokyo San Esu, really wanted to see white Rushes. Downtube decals will be removable on the new stock.

• 2008 Double Cross DC (i.e. "disc/canti"): We will finally be releasing a Double Cross with disc mounts. Cantilever bosses will be removable. Some of you are probably saying, "It's about time." It will be in the matte Midnight Silver that's been popular on our Juice frames. For the time being, this model will be offered in only 50 to 58cm.

There will still be cantilever-only Double Crosses in 2008 --for those who don't see the need for discs-- in a full size range.

• There is a brand new road frame that we plan to release mid-2008. We will release more details after evaluating our prototypes.