{"id":2289,"date":"2013-04-02T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:04:34","slug":"melindas-650c-axiom-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/melindas-650c-axiom-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda’s 650C Axiom S"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Melinda's<\/a><\/p>\n

This is Melinda’s brand new 650c Axiom S<\/a>. We built it in partnership with our friends at Podium Multisport<\/a> in Atlanta. The challenge here was to find a good, balanced design and fit for Melinda, who is both diminutive in stature and aggressive in riding style. Working around a 650c wheel size, Podium gave us positionals to work from, and we came up with this bike, which seems to be just what Melinda was looking for…<\/p>\n

She reports:<\/p>\n

My first real ride didn’t occur until yesterday! We went about 53 miles, and I honestly didn’t know what to expect.\u00a0 Here is my first impression: All the the ‘hot spots’ where I felt uncomfortable on my other bike were nonexistant..The pinch at the ankles, tweak in the knee, hip; ache in the back, etc….all gone.\u00a0 It felt like I could be on the bike and actually relax my entire body.\u00a0 Like sitting in a “stressless” chair (if you know what those are).<\/em><\/p>\n

From a power perspective, on my old bike\u00a0I always felt that I couldn’t pull up on the pedal stroke efficiently and I was correct!\u00a0 I was missing about half my power in the stroke because I couldn’t get the pull.\u00a0 On this bike I felt like I could utilize muscles and power that I never had access to.\u00a0 Rather than feeling the crunch at mile 20 and hanging off the back and thinking I couldn’t possibly go another 30+miles, I stayed toward\u00a0the front most of the time, was able to fly up the hills, and even had energy left over at the end of the ride.\u00a0 It was beyond anything that I could have imagined!<\/em><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I am pleased! I felt the road but not all of the bad things that come from the road like uncomfortable bumps, etc.\u00a0 It absorbed those nicely.\u00a0 It was incredibly responsive and ZIPPY! There is no better term for it!\u00a0 I don’t think Alan is very happy though because I smoked him up the big hills and had to hold back to fetch\u00a0his sorry ass\u00a0at the end of the ride.\u00a0 Oh well, can’t please them\u00a0all!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Melinda’s brand new 650c Axiom S. We built it in partnership with our friends at Podium Multisport in Atlanta. The challenge here was to find a good, balanced design and fit for Melinda, who is both diminutive in stature and aggressive in riding style. Working around a 650c wheel size, Podium gave us … Continue reading “Melinda’s 650C Axiom S”<\/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":[1],"tags":[178,42,752,44,18,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-650c","8":"tag-axiom-s","10":"tag-bike-build","11":"tag-featured-product","12":"tag-seven-customers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11644,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/11644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}