{"id":1581,"date":"2012-07-02T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:03:24","slug":"seven-cycles-shop-ride-vermonts-kingdom-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/seven-cycles-shop-ride-vermonts-kingdom-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Cycles Shop Ride &#8211; Vermont&#8217;s Kingdom Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1583 size-full\" title=\"photo1\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1.jpg\" alt=\"Mountian biking up a sunny dirt path in a meadow\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who can say what summer was made for, but rolling out of the shop on Friday night and winding our way up to East Burke, VT, with an eye on a long Saturday trail ride in Vermont&#8217;s Kingdom Trails, we had a sense of the order of the universe. We were unmistakably doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1585 size-full\" title=\"4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7.jpg\" alt=\"Kingdom Trails, Vermont\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7.jpg 612w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/4131c076c38c11e1be6a12313820455d_7-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The northern woods are cooler than the roads around our Watertown factory, so we had the perfect escape from the heat. Some trails. Some beer. Lots of good food. More reminders of how lucky we are to do what we do, building and selling bikes all week, riding them on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1586 size-full\" title=\"946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_7\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72.jpg\" alt=\"Vermont countryside\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72.jpg 612w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/946c1760c38611e1b2fe1231380205bf_72-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It never fails to amaze how good it is to ride trail you&#8217;ve not ridden before. While some of us were intimately familiar with the treasures on offer at the Kingdom Trails, others were discovering them for the first time. It&#8217;s like learning to ride again in all the best ways. It makes it easy to show up for work on Monday morning, inspired to do it all again, maybe even better this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who can say what summer was made for, but rolling out of the shop on Friday night and winding our way up to East Burke, VT, with an eye on a long Saturday trail ride in Vermont&#8217;s Kingdom Trails, we had a sense of the order of the universe. We were unmistakably doing the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/seven-cycles-shop-ride-vermonts-kingdom-trails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven Cycles Shop Ride &#8211; Vermont&#8217;s Kingdom Trails&#8221;<\/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":[36,34],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-shop-rides","tag-sola-sl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11588,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}