{"id":4074,"date":"2015-04-02T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:28:04","slug":"how-a-bike-gets-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/how-a-bike-gets-born\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Bike Gets Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make a bike, a Seven anyway, you need a rider, a hammer, an anvil, a set of number and letter stamps, a wax pad, and a pair of drop outs. Here at our shop, there is no bike without a rider, and every rider gets their own serial number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4075 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN1.jpg\" alt=\"serial number stamps\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You load a unique code, four numbers, a letter, two more numbers into the stamper, and press it into the wax pad to check that it reads correctly. You pull a pair of raw dropouts from the bin and lay the drive side one on the anvil. You raise the hammer, not too high. Accuracy is important.<\/p>\n<p>Then you pound the stamper with the hammer and that, THAT, is how a bike gets born.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4078 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN2.jpg\" alt=\"pressed into putty\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4079 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN3.jpg\" alt=\"serial stamping station\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN3-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN3-300x224.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><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4080 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SN4.jpg\" alt=\"stamed dropout\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a bike, a Seven anyway, you need a rider, a hammer, an anvil, a set of number and letter stamps, a wax pad, and a pair of drop outs. Here at our shop, there is no bike without a rider, and every rider gets their own serial number. You load a unique code, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/how-a-bike-gets-born\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How a Bike Gets Born&#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":[593,592,285,591],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anvil","tag-hammer","tag-production-process","tag-serial-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","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=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12235,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/12235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}