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?
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