City Cycle – Seven Cycles

Packing a Travel Bike

We built an Axiom S with S&S couplers for Mark Slavonia with our friends at City Cycle in San Francisco. This was Mark’s third Seven, and he uses it for EVERYTHING, including a lot of travel riding. We’ve talked about packing travel bikes before, in terms of the features and benefits of the various cases, and we’ve reviewed some of the frame and component choices that make the most sense for travel bikes, but ultimately, your success and enjoyment of bike travel will come down to how easy it is for you to pack and unpack your bike.

Mark wrote up his own bike packing guide and shared it with us. He also weighs in on the merits of the various coupling systems and the cases available. It’s well worth a read.

He says, “My travel bike is a Seven Axiom with optional S&S couplings. It weighs 18 lbs, 2 oz. with a 60 cm frame. The oversized titanium tubing and the stainless steel couplings make it pretty stiff overall, especially for a titanium bike. I’d use this bike for any ride or race and I never feel compromised by it.”

Thanks to Mark for allowing us to share.

On the Road – Biketoberfest Marin with City Cycle

Fairfax, California is the birthplace of mountain biking, a sleepy little town in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais. Each year Fairfax hosts Biketoberfest Marin, which is exactly what it sounds like, a celebration of cycling, beer and food. Our good friends at City Cycle invited us out for the party, and being the accommodating folks we are, we showed up.

Fairfax is a special place for so many reasons. The cycling culture there is extremely rich, and the Biketoberfest scene was replete with cyclists of every imaginable stripe, roadies, mountain bikers, cruisers, bike packers, steel devotees, Ti worshipers and carbon lovers.

We spent the day doing what we love to do, which is looking at, talking about and appreciating bikes for all they give us, fun, health, transport and a way to express ourselves. The fresh, hot tamales and steadily flowing beer didn’t hurt the ambiance at all, either. A local cafe had set up their tent next to ours. It really couldn’t have been a better day.

City Cycle has two locations, one in Cow Hollow in the city, and one in Corte Madera, Marin. The SF location is one of those legendary shops, one of the first real bike studios in the country, and we have partnered with them on literally hundreds of bikes. The Corte Madera location is much newer and larger, and serves as a cycling gateway to the beautiful roads and trails of greater Marin.

It was nice, as always, to spend the day with them, and we were grateful to have been invited.

Jim K’s Axiom SL

The day we get tired of hearing about the amazing adventures riders get up to on their Sevens is the day we pack up the shop and ride off into the sunset. This is Jim and his Axiom SL, built with our friends at City Cycle in Corte Madera, CA.

Jim says:

For my 70th birthday, I had a Seven Axiom SL made and took it from my home in California to London to do the first ever RideLondon London-Surrey 100 on August 4, 2013. The century was on the London Olympics road racing course which was closed for the day. The ride started at the Olympic Park in London and finished at the Mall in front of Buckingham Palace. This is a picture of me taken at the finish in front of the Palace. Both the bike and the rider did just fine.

Thank you Seven.