{"id":4692,"date":"2005-08-08T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:38:16","slug":"newsweek-shifting-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/newsweek-shifting-gears\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek: Shifting Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dana Gordon<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Elium<\/p>\n

You may never get to don the maillot jaune<\/em> of a Tour de France winner, but you can share one thing with cycling’s elite: a custom-made bicycle. Massachusetts-based Seven Cycles makes racers, mountain bikes and even tandems from ultralight titanium and carbon fiber, but its best-sellers are comfortable, distance-friendly road bikes. Company founder Rob Vandermark was a metal sculptor before turning his blowtorch to bike frames, and Seven’s attention to craftsmanship shows in such details as hand-selected tubing, hand-welding and a zealous regard for fit. The company sells worldwide and will exhibit at the EUROBIKE trade show this fall in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Leaving the peleton behind on a Seven isn’t cheap, however. Prices start at $3,000 for a basic steel-framed model and climb to an Alpine $12,000 for a fully tricked-out version of the Elium Race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Dana Gordon You may never get to don the maillot jaune of a Tour de France winner, but you can share one thing with cycling’s elite: a custom-made bicycle. Massachusetts-based Seven Cycles makes racers, mountain bikes and even tandems from ultralight titanium and carbon fiber, but its best-sellers are comfortable, distance-friendly road bikes. Company … Continue reading “Newsweek: Shifting Gears”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69,1161,5,1155],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-622-s","tag-custom-ti-carbon-bicycle","tag-press","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10550,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}