Joel's Custom Painted Green Double Cross Disc

Soma,

I would just like to share my Soma build from Spring Street Sports in Chippewa Falls, WI. If you would like any more information, let me know! I know I painted over the graphics, but I'm trying to find a decal that would go well with my color scheme. A local hot rod shop sprayed it for me. I look at your blog and see how you guys show off some shops' rides. I think I made one hell of a clean example. 

MTBR Post:
http://forums.mtbr.com/cyclocross/soma-double-cross-disc-840534-new-post.html

Thanks for the ride,

Joel Jahnke

Spring Street Sports

www.springstreetsports.com

Dirt Drop/Super Boss

I know the first thing that comes to most people mind when they think of Soma's handlebar selection is "Why don't you have more options?" Well don't worry, 'cause were on the case.

It all started with our dirt drop bar, the Junebug. We got to thinking, wouldn't it be cool if you could use the JB bar with Hydraulic mountain levers. So we shrank the diameter of the drop handles to accommodate 22.2 levers. We also reamed the tips so they still work with bar end shifters.

Well, we made a couple samples to test out, and one of the things we figured out was that they make pretty good cruiser bars when you flip them upside down. They're kinda like a mutant Soma Oxford bar.

They do work well as a dirt drop too. The taper is located at the bottom of the bend, so you can still use the with regular drop levers.

Now in case y'all think we're completely tone deaf, yes we realize how weird this bike looks. It's our permanent test platform so it's set up for different size people to hop on and take it for a spin. You might recognize the fork too. It's the fat tire suspension corrected prototype we showed you a while ago. Our buddies at Velocity USA sent us this dialed Pacenti P35 double rear wheel set, since it takes a 135mm hub on the front. Since you can swap the front wheel with the rear, we put two different size cogs on to make it a 2 speed. All of these strange bits n' bobs should be available for you to purchase sometime after Stardate 67466.9

IRD Sub Compact Chainring Prototype

Here's a fun widget that we've been working with IRD to develop.

It's a 50.4 BCD chain ring designed to mount to french style 6 bolt cranks. It has mounting points for 130, 110 and 94 BCD chain rings so you can dial in your gearing for different riding conditions.

They're specifically made to fit the Sun XCD cranks in the picture, but they should work well with other modern reproduction crank arms with the same bolt pattern.

Since they'll work with most commonly available double chain rings you'll never have to scour ebay looking for NOS TA or Stronglight rings again. The cutout design matches the chain rings that come on the IRD Defiant cranks, and it will work with the Defiant replacement rings that are now available.

They have shift ramps and pins like any modern chain ring, so they should shift with indexed derailleurs as well as classic friction systems. We should have our first production run in a few months.

Interbike Highlights

Hey Soma Fans!

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.

Tange Japan had a sample of the new IRD Defiant QB-95 BB to show off. The super low friction bearings spin like butter.

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!