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Current Lead Times: Simple-Custom Framesets: 1 week. Full Custom Bikes: 7 weeks.

U.S. Built Custom Bicycles in Titanium and Titanium-Carbon Mix

Handcrafted: One Frame At A Time

Skip is part of our Special Projects Team. He is Seven’s most Master Framebuilder, with more than 30 years of custom machining experience. Here he completes a one-off project code named SOURCE Endurance Race Gravel. The SOURCE integrates a number of details and advanced features in a new combination we’ve not yet offered publicly.  Details to follow.  And available soon for all.

Skip machines the down tube of a custom frame. Our proprietary coping system ensures tube length accuracy to within 0.003″ — the thickness of a piece of paper.
Skip machines the head tube; preparing the frame for Seven’s innovative internal housing routing system.
Skip bends Seven’s ultra-thin Moto seat stays in three dimensions for improved ride flow.
The tubeset is ready for welding. Each part of this frame kit was custom-machined by one master framebuilder. Each frame tube in this kit is unique when compared to any other frame we’ve ever built.  More custom than necessary? Maybe, but it’s what we do.

Framebuilding: Special Projects Team

We’ve been working on a new project bike code named SOURCE.  It’ll be public soon.  In the meantime, here are a few images of Skip working on the frame’s rear triangle.

Skip checking the bending accuracy on our three-dimensional dropped chainstay design. All of the bends are in multiple planes. Complex to machine, but the performance benefits are many: Stiffer, shorter, and more tire clearance.
Skip machining FlowState chainstays. A new design for a special project. Those hands have built frames for more than 30 years. He’s a master framebuilder times ten.
Chainstays and seat stays ready for welding. Each of the four stays have multiple bends in multiple planes for optimal performance.
Did you know that Shimano makes Dura-Ace level fixtures? They don’t. But Seven does, sometimes. We call it found object fixturing.

 

 

Velosmith Performance Allroads Bike: Titanium XX with In-Route System

Designed and built with Velosmith Bicycle Studio, a Seven Cycles retailer in Wilmette, Illinois. Velosmith brought the Seven to the Chris King Open House. The Radavist took some fantastic photos at the Open House along with many beautiful bikes. Seven was fortunate to be part of it. Thank you, Velosmith, Chris King, and The Radavist! Photographs by The Radavist.

Velosmith Allroads blue beauty. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Velosmith Allroads blue beauty. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Full In-Route system for clean and hidden housing presentation. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Full In-Route system for clean and hidden housing presentation. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Symmetry. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Symmetry. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Dropped chainstays and Fastback dropout interface. Fast, stiff, clearance. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Dropped chainstays and Fastback dropout interface. Fast, stiff, clearance. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Seven paint designed by Velosmith. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Seven paint designed by Velosmith. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Love to watch it go. Photograph credit: The Radavist
Love to watch it go. Photograph credit: The Radavist

Three Head Tube Badges

We have three styles of head tube badges. One for each tubeset type we offer.

Seven’s titanium tubeset page provides details about the XX, SL, and S frame platforms. All of our carbon-titanium frames come with the XX-type badge.

Three head tube badges

You don’t choose your badge; you choose your tubeset platform or model. That determines which badge your Seven will have.

All are laser-cut stainless steel.  Clean and understated.

The screw-hole locations for each of the three badges are different, so you can’t swap badges.

 

Floody Onion Special Edition Bike

Possibly the coolest headtube badge on earth, available only on Floody Onion special edition Seven Cycles bikes!

Order a Floody Onion Bike, it’s the best value bike on the market. It’s available only until November 30. Additionally and importantly, it directly helps Onion River Outdoors in Montpellier, VT,  get back in business and continue to do business. Onion River Outdoors is a community-centric bike shop and Seven Cycles retailer who was flooded out of their space late summer.

Why does getting a Seven allow you the best riding? It’s a longer list than what we can fit here. These are some of the top reasons:

    • It’s built to do what you want to do on the bike.
    • It can be ready for you in 3 weeks from one of the most respected and, arguably, the most rider-focused, engineering-based frame builder in the world.
    • It offers the best ride qualities with unparalleled power transfer from pedals to rear wheel and smoothness in ride.
    • You get direct communication with a Performance Designer at Seven Cycles in the process, so you are involved and feel informed.
    • It’s durable and light weight. The bike will support all of the riding you want to do without hesitation and no issues.
    • Made for your future riding. Nothing proprietary to break or cause you to not be able to upgrade the parts in the future. As the bike ages, the frame ride qualities stay the same. There is no model year on the frame because that just doesn’t make sense for a Seven. It’s timeless and stays as fun as it was on #newbikeday throughout the years.
This is the first delivered Floody Onion bike! It is a dual wheelset Evergreen: set up here with 32mm slick tires for performance road riding, dirt road riding and has clearances for 700x40mm gravel tires for the rougher stuff when the time comes. Its rider has this to say about the bike: “Holy !$#@!, the new bike (aka Evergrenish SL, Floody Onion) is amazing. It is so damn comfortable and my ride position is fabulous. Awesome work by everyone involved and the Seven team! I am just in awe!!”

Onion River and the other great independent bike shops out there are at the center of the soul of the cycling world. Without them, our outdoor lives would not be the same.

We’re offering you a very special edition Floody Onion bike to directly help support Onion River’s recovery efforts in a very significant way.

Before the flooding, Onion River was full of bikes and all kinds of outdoor gear.

Place a deposit for a bike, Seven Cycles will donate $500 to Onion River within 2 days.

Kick off your bike project with a $2,500 deposit. That’s it. You will get this full amount applied to the price of a complete, special edition Onion River Seven. Seven Cycles donates $500 immediately to Onion River for each deposit submitted between now and October 31, 2023.

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Here’s what you get, over $850 in extra value for you:

  • You’ll get a great Seven Cycles bike of your choosing! Your Floody Onion Special Edition bike can be a gravel, hardtail mountain, road, cross, fat or dual-suspension mountain bike! If you’ve not ridden a titanium Seven Cycles bike, you’re in for a real treat.

You’re welcome to go with a custom design or Rider Ready bike, your choice.cyclist crossing a washout on a rough dirt road

  • Floody Onion Bike Headtube Badge. This bike stands out among bikes. You will feel good looking at it, it’ll be unique, and it’ll be a lasting reminder of the good that comes when community pulls together. You make a difference with this bike.

  • Floody Onion custom color graphics. Custom Decals of Turquoise or Darker Blue (matte finish). These are a $250 value.

 

  • You’ll be riding your new bike within 3 weeks of confirming the design! There are many parts kits to choose from so you get the parts and gearing that you want on your bike. Expedited lead time is a $500 value.

 

  • 100 Years of Framebuilding Experience will go into your frame! We’ve pulled together four of our most experienced designers, framebuilders, finishers, and welders. Together, your team of four will have over 100 years of framebuilding experience. Only their hands will work on your frameset. We don’t think another framebuilder on the planet can offer so much experience and knowledge in a single frame — yours. This experience is priceless!

 

  • Free entry into the Muddy Onion gravel ride in the spring or the next time it’s held!*

 

  • If you don’t know which Seven you want or would like to take your time spec’ing out the bike, that’s fine! We’ll apply your full $2,500 deposit to your bike when you’re ready to order the bike. We’ll make a donation to Onion River of $500 immediately for each order we receive so they can have the money right away.Seven Evegreen rest on a high mountain pass

Fine print:

    • A complete bike needs to be ordered.
    • If Onion River is your local retailer, it will be GREAT for you to work with them since they’ll more greatly benefit financially and will still receive a donation from Seven Cycles. They’ll be back in business in November so there is time for everyone to coordinate schedules to start working on your bike, you can rest assured you’ll be riding the bike before the spring hits!
    • Build kits and group sets: Many of the components we offer can be available within 3 weeks. Some parts are special order or built to order and may take longer to source. If that is the case, we will let you know ahead of time so you can make changes to stay within the 3 weeks or prepare for an altered lead time.
    • Other retailer involvements: Depending on your location, we will work with a Seven retailer if one is within about 40 miles of you. If you don’t live near a retailer, we’ll work directly with you and ask that you work with your preferred fitter to determine your best position on the bike.
    • Bike fit: Seven does not do remote fittings. It is important that you have a fitter help you; otherwise, you are responsible for the fitting.
    • Free entry into the Muddy Onion spring ride assumes Onion River will be able to bring this ride back. They don’t need any additional stress on their shoulders right now, but with their track record, they’ll host rides in the future that you will be able to take part in!

Deadline: This offer is good through 31 October 2023. We’re encouraging speed since this helps get funds to Onion River fast to help them reopen. The faster you order, the faster we will be able to make the $500 donation to Onion River and the faster you’ll be riding your new bike!

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What if I am not in the market for a new bike at this moment? How can I participate?

Purchase a Floody Onion Headtube Badge keychain! Is there a cooler keychain out there? The keychain is $250 and we’re donating all profits from your purchase to Onion River Outdoors to help in their flood-recovery efforts. When you eventually order a Seven from Onion River Outdoors in the future, present your keychain and ask for the Floody Onion special. You’ll have the option of putting custom color decals on your new Seven at no charge whenever it is the right time for you!

Order a Keychain Now! Available while supplies last.

We thank you for participating in this effort to help Onion River Outdoors and their staff get back on their feet and be well underway on day one of version 2.0 of Onion River Outdoors!

The community of Montpelier and the greater cycling community are all beneficiaries of your purchase. You’ll be riding your Seven for years to come, all the while feeling great about the people you’ve helped while also getting a great cycling experience in the process!