My friends at Soma Fabrications are knocking 20 percent off their already reasonably priced frames and forks, which makes them a deal and a half for anyone in the market for a new rig.
Click the link to get the deets. And you’ll wanna move fast, because this sale ends tomorrow.
Me, I’ve finally gotten my paws on a Soma Pescadero, the frameset I originally wanted to review for Adventure Cyclist back in 2021.
The Pescadero was out of stock back then, and what I wound up with instead was a New Albion Privateer, which proved to be an excellent bike, so much so that I bought it after writing the review. And it remains the bike I ride most often.
But I’m really looking forward to throwing a leg over the top tube of this Pescadero.
I’m a few parts short of a party at the moment — the Racer centerpulls I ordered from Paul Components are taking the scenic route to El Rancho Pendejo, and I’m trying to decide whether to perform a complicated three-way transplant to put wheels on the Pescadero or just buy a brand-new wheelset from the good folks at Velocity USA.
I used an old pair of wheels on the Privateer — Mavic Open Pro rims and Shimano 600 hubs — and I could go that route again, robbing a similar wheelset from a Steelman Eurocross or the Soma Double Cross. But I like those bikes as they are.
And that three-way swap I mentioned would involve moving the Double Cross’s wheels to the Pescadero; shifting a Soma Saga’s wheels to the DC; and giving an unused Velocity Cliffhanger/LX wheelset to the Saga. Some redishing seems likely; brake adjustments are a certainty. What we shade-tree mechanics like to call “too much like work.”
So … yeah. We’ll see. No rush on wheels if a feller ain’t got no brakes. But all y’all will want to get busy if you want a good price on a new whip. Tell ’em The Dog sent you.
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Looks nice, but I would have to retire something and ship it off as a donation. I just put a Richey WCS Streem bar on the CAAD-5. I suspect the bar is worth more than the frameset but you know how I am about not getting rid of old bikes.
Damnit POG! I thought I was over the Soma allure. But now you’ve dragged me back in. But it could be worse. It could be something more dangerous and expensive than bikes. Which are still after many, many decades one of the singular best part of my life.
I got my new ride just before Christmas. As I was retrieving a bandaid for a small cut on my finger from the wonderful folks at my local “new-for-me” store, they rolled out a fat tire beast that I said I’d take. The price was quite good for what I thought initially was a run-of-the-mill $!K fat bike. Nope, It was a carbon fiber fat bike with HED carbon rims and a Rock Shox Bluto fork. It’s in great shape – I mean, how many miles do people really put on fat bikes? I can’t say I’ll ride it much but at the price I paid for it, it don’t matter.
But of course Soma do, and Soma don’t.