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View ArticleCape to Kapp: Facing The Pandemic in the Middle of a Solo Tour
About 147 weeks ago, Teresie Hommersand began her solo bike tour from Capetown, South Africa. Her destination is Kapp, Norway (thus Cape to Kapp). Of course with all these types of endeavors, the...
View ArticleMeet Karina our First Russian Brand Ambassador
We at Soma don't really go looking for Brand Ambassadors all that often. However we recently picked up Planetarki.ru as a our distributor in Russia. Since Soma is totally new to this huge country, a...
View ArticleSoma Double Cross: A Significant Update for 2021
When we launched Soma with just four frames back in 2001, the Double Cross was always meant to be our most versatile frame, the one that flew that "jack of all trades" flag: Commuter, long distance...
View ArticleThe Soma Buena Vista Honored with "Most Supple Bike of 2021" Title
The Path Less Pedaled is a YouTube channel and blog that has been showcasing the non-competitive side of cycling for over 5 years now. The channel focuses on gravel riding, bikepacking, bicycle...
View ArticleCape to Kapp: Bicycle Touring in the Norwegian Winter
Teresie Hommersand grew up near Stavanger, a city known as the oil capital of Norway. She remembers eating supper every evening off plates with the logo of the national oil and gas company on them....
View ArticleCrossing Off "Crossing the Arctic Circle" Off the Bucket List
Teresie Hommersand grew up near Stavanger, a city known as the oil capital of Norway. She remembers eating supper every evening off plates with the logo of the national oil and gas company on them....
View ArticleCape To Kapp: Reflecting on Sexism on the Road and Her Own Socialized Views...
Teresie Hommersand finished her multi-year trek from South Africa to Norway this month to spectacular joy and feelings she couldn't quite put into words. She wrote this piece for us before that...
View ArticleOur Dream Riser Bikepacking Handlebar Gets Some Siblings
The original Dream Riser Bar hit a chord with bike packers and other riders with its comfortable 25° sweep, which not only keeps your controls away from a big handlebar bag, but just feels very...
View ArticleCape to Kapp: Prejudices Everywhere (Kindess Too)
Teresie Hommersand's recently wrapped here Cape to Kapp, finishing her ride at the North Cape in Norway. Four years in the saddle, across 25,000 kilometers, through 26 countries. Distance and time are...
View ArticleThe Path Less Pedaled Channel Reviews our Grand Randonneur Disc Frame
Russ Roca's Path Less Pedaled channel embraces the non-competitive side of bicycle riding...especially touring and gravel riding.We sent him a 49cm partially built bike with gearing he is partial to...
View ArticleCape to Kapp: My New Definition of "Beauty"
Teresie Hommersand's recently wrapped her "Cape to Kapp" adventure, finishing her ride at the North Cape in Norway. Four years in the saddle, across 25,000 kilometers, through 26 countries. Distance...
View ArticleThe Smoothie HP: New "High Protein" Endurance Road Frame
Our Smoothie road performance frame model is as old as the Soma brand itself. It started out with a classic looking level top tube design and a curved unicrown fork. The tubes were a combination of...
View ArticleNew Alt Bars: Soma Clarence II and Hwy 17
With long-distance gravel events and bikepacking continuing to gain popularity, Soma has decided to add functionality and comfort to two of their most popular handlebars, the Highway One and the...
View ArticleThe Soma Gullwing Bar: The Answer to One of the Most Asked Questions on Bike...
There are inventions from the 20th century that - when you first look at them - you aren't sure whether they are super cool or a little wacky. The "gullwing" feature on 1950's era Mercedes 300SL is one...
View ArticleMeet the Adventure-Ready Soma Jawbone
Over the years, we at Soma have been truly amazed at how the modern bicycle has allowed all types of folks to travel the across continents and be immersed and mesmerized by the great outdoors even as...
View Article2023 Colorways for the Soma Wolverine
New Wolverine 4.1 A-Type Build by Jon Bobel/Beat CyclesThe Wolverine, our gravel/monster cross model, is almost 10 years old!For its 10th birthday, we decided to bring back the popular Pumpkin Orange...
View ArticleAdventure Cyclist Reviews the Soma Jawbone B-Type Bikepacking Frame
Northern California native Corey got a chance to review our Jawbone earlier in the year for Adventure Cycling Association's print mag for members, Adventure Cyclist.We don't want to print the whole...
View ArticleOur Riff Hardtail Frame Gets An Overdue Update
If you've known Soma Fabrications for a while, you know we don't go by model years.We don't want to refresh our frames every January just to say we have this new thing to plop in front of your...
View ArticleIntroducing Rufus: Our New BMX Wheeled Mini Velo
We at Soma Fabrications made an attempt to introduce North America to the mini velo style of bicycle way back in 2010. Back then very few people here (except Mark V from Bike Hugger) were interested in...
View ArticleSoma Rufus Mini Velo Bike Check
Just a quick dive into our first build up of a production Rufus frame set.This is just one way to do it. You can build yours up anyway you want.Bars: Nitto Higher Level 5" rise BMX'ish but...
View Article15 Years of Mixte Bikes
The mixte bicycle has a history that isn't too well documented. As far as we can gleen from our internet research, it first made its debut in the Peugeot bicycle line-up in the 1940's. And they had...
View ArticleThe Bike That Seduced Me Into Bikepacking
Catalina and her partner Jose Pacheco are currently bikepacking through some beautiful and remote sections of the High Andes in Bolivia. They are capturing their experience on their blog...
View ArticleSoma Fog Cutter v.2 Review on YouTube
We sent a Fog Cutter all the way to Girona, Spain so Russ of The Path Less Pedaled could have a bike to play with different drivetrain ideas in his search for "peak mechanical" set ups.Russ has a...
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