{"id":4882,"date":"2005-04-23T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:49:29","slug":"adventure-sports-magazine-best-bike-verve-by-seven-with-s-and-s-machine-coupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/adventure-sports-magazine-best-bike-verve-by-seven-with-s-and-s-machine-coupling\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Sports Magazine: Best Bike &#8211; Verve by Seven, with S and S Machine Coupling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Seven Verve<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/images\/Press\/verveUp.jpg\" alt=\"Verve\" width=\"226\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>For the long-course adventure racer or someone who spends hours and days in the saddle, there&#8217;s nothing like the combination of titanium&#8217;s reputation for durability shaped specifically to meet your needs. Seven&#8217;s hallmark is customizing: Each frame is built to order, and there are no custom up-charges.<\/p>\n<p>Our Verve featured custom geometry with a tubeset tuned for good drivetrain stiffness and vertical compliance, with a handful of extras such as disc brake tabs and un-posted cantilever brake bosses, and rack and fender eyelets. On trail, the Verve is supple, light and smooth&acirc;&#8364;&#8221;as far opposite the Scott Scale as a bike could get and still be a hardtail. The geometry was perfect, threading technical rock garden descents or rooted climbs with precision and ease. It also offers almost no-hands stability and surety on high-speed sections (not that we&#8217;re advocating taking your hands off the bar).<\/p>\n<p>The Verve will cost you a bundle, but if you&#8217;re a discerning distance racer who prizes durability, it may be the ultimate ride for you.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Specs<\/h2>\n<table class=\"norm\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Frame:<\/th>\n<td>Tig-welded Integrity straight gauge 3al\/2.5v titanium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Weight:<\/th>\n<td>Approximated at 22 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Size:<\/th>\n<td>Custom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Front Suspension:<\/th>\n<td>Fox F80RL fork w\/800mm travel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Component Highlights:<\/th>\n<td>27 speed Shimano XT drivetrain and hydraulic disc brakes; Mavic Crossmax XL tubeless wheels; Seven handlebar and stem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Verve For the long-course adventure racer or someone who spends hours and days in the saddle, there&#8217;s nothing like the combination of titanium&#8217;s reputation for durability shaped specifically to meet your needs. Seven&#8217;s hallmark is customizing: Each frame is built to order, and there are no custom up-charges. Our Verve featured custom geometry with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/adventure-sports-magazine-best-bike-verve-by-seven-with-s-and-s-machine-coupling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventure Sports Magazine: Best Bike &#8211; Verve by Seven, with S and S Machine Coupling&#8221;<\/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":[1153,5,1145,543,1149],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-custom-mountin-bike","tag-press","tag-reviews","tag-sola-s","tag-titanium-bicycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","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=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}