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The Soma Rush track frame has been around for some time now, an early offering in the current fixed gear wave. It has always featured a quality Tange Prestige steel tubeset and steep geometry, and has a number of fans out there putting the miles on. For 2010 the Rush frameset is seeing some updates beyond new paint colors, but keeping the same roughly $525 price for frame and fork. 
The most striking changes are with the fork and track ends—the fork has been updated to feature straight blades and a lugged drop crown, and the new cast track ends lend a much higher-end look to the frame, similar to the ends featured on custom bicycles. The frame is now completely free from braze-ons, no cable guides, fender bosses or water bottle mounts to see here. Look for this frameset to be available relatively soon, though there is no word on absolute arrival dates.
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Very pretty!
I want one.
Also it has a road stem! not one of those ugly/unless mountain bike stems. meaning it’s threaded so you can actually adjust the height of the handlebars. I see more and more bikes coming back to threaded, it makes me happy.
The fork is nice…love me some crown lugs! Sure, the purists might scoff at straight blades, but I don’t care about that.
Do the insides of the crown lugs have the long points and cutouts?
….but can it do barspinz!
I scoff at straight blades not because I am a purist, but simply because I think curvy forks look better. I am old, however, so that may have something to do with it.
Thatsa nicea hipster bike. And I want one.
Given a choice, I prefer curved fork blades for aesthetics (I am “old-ish”), but the straight ones do the job, too…especially with that crown. Really, as long as the fork isn’t a unicrown abomination, I’m happy!
Hot damn i like this. If only i could get it in red with a straight chrome fork.
i like that it was a quill stem as well, good point on being able to adjust the height easily
i would love to build on of these up and keep it as my fair weather ride…the blue is so nice
My Soma Rush is total crap. 2008 model. Rear section is welded totally out of alignment. Tried to get Soma and their main distributor Merry Sales Co to warranty it, but to no avail. I definately would never purchase another Soma product considering the retail price of this F/F and their lack of customer support. Any of the large US bike companies would have replaced this failure of quality control out of shear embarrasment.