{"id":4344,"date":"2015-05-19T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:02:33","slug":"roberts-elium-sl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/roberts-elium-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert&#8217;s Elium SL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t imagine what people will do with your bikes when you build them, or if you do try and envision what life the bike will live, you don&#8217;t dare to think it will carry people as far as it sometimes does. We build lifetime bikes, but it&#8217;s the rider that gives the bike that lifetime. We got this photo and note from Robert, down in Florida where he has put his <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/622-s.php\">Elium SL<\/a> (an Elium SG when he bought it) to very good use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bob__Seven_Elium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4345\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bob__Seven_Elium-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Robert and his Elium SL\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bob__Seven_Elium-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bob__Seven_Elium-scaled-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bob__Seven_Elium-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bob__Seven_Elium-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I found it timely to receive this recent newsletter from Seven Cycles.\u00a0 My <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/622-s.php\">Seven Elium<\/a> just reached a milestone.\u00a0 As of today, it has 50,030 miles on it.\u00a0 Twice around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This bicycle has been a joy to ride since the first day.\u00a0 Even at 50,000 miles, it has almost all the original Ultegra components.\u00a0 Shifters, brakes, crankset, derailleurs, and bottom bracket are all original.\u00a0 The headset is original.\u00a0 I have replaced the chain 4 times, the cassette twice, and the shifter cables several times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The next 50,000 may take longer, but I hope to see this bicycle reach 100,000.\u00a0 Thank you for building such a fine bicycle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t imagine what people will do with your bikes when you build them, or if you do try and envision what life the bike will live, you don&#8217;t dare to think it will carry people as far as it sometimes does. We build lifetime bikes, but it&#8217;s the rider that gives the bike that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/roberts-elium-sl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robert&#8217;s Elium SL&#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":[1],"tags":[68,640,6],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-622-sl","tag-florida","tag-seven-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","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=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11778,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}