{"id":3232,"date":"2014-09-04T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:54:39","slug":"tbt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/tbt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our own <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/people\/rob-vandermark.php\">Rob V<\/a>, taking a last spin around the shop floor at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merlin_%28bicycles%29\">Merlin Metalworks<\/a> where he had been the first full-time employee. This is roughly a year before he founded Seven, and gave us all a place to pursue our maniacal bicycle dreams.<\/p>\n<p>We do NOT, as a rule, ride around the shop floor here at Seven, not because we are so much wiser and more mature now, but rather because titanium shards will flat a tire faster than you can say, &#8220;Hey, you can&#8217;t ride that thing in here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You also don&#8217;t need to crash a bike into a giant mill or lathe too many times, before you decide you&#8217;re safer on the road, in heavy traffic.<\/p>\n<p>This is a particularly amusing photo for us, because it predates all the work we&#8217;ve committed to building Seven. At this point, Rob hadn&#8217;t even decided to stay in the bike business. There&#8217;s no telling what was on his mind as he spun around the Merlin shop floor, and conveniently, he maintains he can&#8217;t remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Rob V, taking a last spin around the shop floor at Merlin Metalworks where he had been the first full-time employee. This is roughly a year before he founded Seven, and gave us all a place to pursue our maniacal bicycle dreams. We do NOT, as a rule, ride around the shop floor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/tbt-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#TBT&#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":[17,13,317],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-photos-of-note","tag-tbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","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=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12296,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/12296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}