Fwd: [CR]Soma Bicycles

(Example: Production Builders)

Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:20:09 -0800 (PST)
From: "Art Link" <artlink@columnssanantonio.com>
Subject: Fwd: [CR]Soma Bicycles
To: classic rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Soma is any halucynogenic drug producing euphoria, as in Indo-iranian culture, or Huxley's "Brave New World". Art Link,euphoric in San Antonio,TX,USA

loudeeter@aol.com wrote: To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:04:26 -0500 From: loudeeter@aol.com 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