Friday fotofunfest(a sneak peak of what's to come)

Today we spend the day with the talented and affable photographer Matt Washburn, lavishing attention on our beautiful frames. Our friends at American Cyclery built up some lovely bikes: a Double Cross, Rush and the new Mini Velo.. Look for these shots on our website, flickr, and in some fine publications in the near future!! Happy weekend peoples!!!

Introducing the one, the ONLY: Soma Quill-inator

We're often approached by customers who have a Nitto or Cinelli quill stem and can't use it because their fork is threadless. We mulled over this for a while..and came up with the design for the product that has been dubbed "The Quill-inator". Our friends over at Tange-Seiki in Japan are responsible for the production.

TA-DA, the new Soma Quill-inator! It allows the use of a quill stem on any threadless system. It's a niche product but we think it fills an important one. Now you can have the reliability of a threadless system and still use the vintage quill stems you have kicking around.


They're available in black and silver...

Now in the works at Soma: A frame designed for horses

artist: Dan Button

Gotcha!!--although you, fair reader, are probably too intelligent to fall for something this ridiculous. This blog was brought to my attention this afternoon: Horses with Hands Riding a Bike . Its purpose, as far as I can tell, is to make us all aware of how hard it is to draw this scenario. It invites blog visitors to make a go of it and send it in. Hopefully this doesn't become too popular--I can't imagine trying to reenact this in a parlor game!!

Anyhow, happy weekend people-hopefully it brings lots of biking/bizarre drawings/parlor games!!

Nitto B808AA: Tough as nails, adaptable as a (insert urban predator here)

New from Nitto, a handlebar that can be used in conjunction with both a 22.2mm BMX stem and a 25.4mm stem! How is that possible? How can that be? It's all in the shim folks, with the power of the shim this handlebar can transcend the limitations of mortal handlebars(I wish I had a shim..not fair).

Besides the fact that the B808AA can be used with two stem sizes, its suuuper sturdy. Weighing in at 420 grams, this is an excellent bar for bmx or trick/track riding and mountain biking. Check out the cross-section:

Here are some more specs:
- 9 degree bend

- 600 mm wide
-Made of Aluminum


Now in the Soma Store...