Might be a veiled drug reference (its my beloved old San Francisco afterall), but more likely it just stands for "South of Market", a neighborhood of San Francisco. Soma specializes in bikes adapted to the constraints of San Francisco cycling, but of course want to sell to anyone. I do think they have been missing the Tiburon Ferry boat for a lot of years now by not making a baguette rack for an accessory. I would insist on one if I lived there again. J.P. Weigle are you listening?
Don Wilson
Los Olivos, CA USA
> I am pretty certain that SOMA of the 1980s was a
> bicycle brand made up for USA distribution. Like
> Takara. I sold both in-the-day and they were decent
> bike lines.
>
> The new Soma is the invention of Brad Wohl's of
> American Cyclery working with the Distributor, Merry
> Cycles. (I am pretty sure this is correct but SF'ers
> can maybe supply more details?)
>
> Art's description: "Soma is any halucynogenic drug
> producing euphoria, as in Indo-iranian culture,or
> Huxley's 'Brave New World'." seems to fit the SF
> cultural image!!! :)
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: loudeeter@aol.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 2:04 PM
> Subject: [CR]Soma Bicycles
>
> There was a Soma bicycle company that made bikes
> in the early 80s too. I show
> an address of 200 Park Avenue, New York, with the
> name Matsui. I don't know
> whether this was a person, bike shop, distributor or
> what. I only have a
> confirmed date of frames from 1982 and I show that
> they no longer produce
> frames. At the Soma Fabrications website mentioned
> today, they say they started
> about five years ago, so doesn't appear to be
> connected. Questions:
> 1) Does anyone know anything about the Soma company
> from the 1980s?
> 2) What does Soma mean? Is that Japanese?
>
> Lou Deeter
> Orlando FL
>
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