{"id":1140,"date":"2012-02-07T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:48:14","slug":"close-encounters-of-the-622-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/close-encounters-of-the-622-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounters of the 622 Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"622<\/p>\n

Bryan saw something in my expression and invited me over.<\/p>\n

“Check it out!”<\/p>\n

Clamped in his final machining stand was a yet to be finished, and very raw 622 SLX. He popped it out and handed it over. Until this morning I had not seen a 622 in the flesh, let alone held one.I basked in its aura for a bit, maybe a little too long.<\/p>\n

“Well?” he asked.<\/p>\n

Still stunned by the frame’s lithe beauty, I had forgotten to pay a compliment to one of its craftsman and could only muster a fleeting thought. Had I not been in a trance, I would have told him just what I was thinking,<\/p>\n

\"working<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything is different than I expected. The lugs are miniscule and oh-so-shapely. The matte finish looks appropriately industrial, but in the right light, the filament-wound fibers twinkle. <\/em><\/p>\n

My word! They twinkle! <\/em><\/p>\n

Deceptively lightweight yet surprisingly beefy. Elegance and power rolled into one. Mamacita.<\/em><\/p>\n

But in the heat of the moment, all I could say was, “it’s awesome.”<\/p>\n

Sorry Bryan, I was awestruck.<\/p>\n

-Karl B.<\/p>\n

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Bryan saw something in my expression and invited me over. “Check it out!” Clamped in his final machining stand was a yet to be finished, and very raw 622 SLX. He popped it out and handed it over. Until this morning I had not seen a 622 in the flesh, let alone held one.I basked … Continue reading “Close Encounters of the 622 Kind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}