nicely done. when you're done with it feel free to bring it over to my house. it should fit me well enough.

great bike trelhak

i wanna see more somecs

what do you mean? how so?

The one i was looking at had tulip cutouts.

I have a 1981 somec conversion i would really love to show you, but i am mental and don't know how to post pictures (some help maybe?). The story from my bike is a lady who lived in the NY went to a bike expo in 1980 and talked to a somec rep, had her bike custom made with pantographed campy fork. Other nice components are campy headset, pedals, cranks, gipemme dropouts and seatpost with a white vetta. It is nice little ride, and is totally worth getting your hands on a somec. Also have matching cycling cap and jersey to boot!

While the tulip device is the typical cut-out seen on SOMECs' lugwork, some builders preferred to use shorter-sleeved lugs for one reason or another. These lugs didn't have enough surface area to carve a tulip into them, so a heart-shape or wing-shape was used. Some didn't use cut-outs at all, preferring instead to thin down the lugs to nothing.

It doesn't point towards greater or lesser quality, just a different builder's style. (As SOMEC doesn't mean a bike is built according to a single person's design, since they were all custom anyway, but built to a high standard of quality in materials, construction, and finish.)

is there any way to tell what year a somec was made?

Send them an email: Somec