{"id":5192,"date":"2001-04-11T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2001-04-11T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:16:35","slug":"mountain-bike-magazine-dave-gilheany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mountain-bike-magazine-dave-gilheany\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bike Magazine: Dave Gilheany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dave<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Age:<\/b> 27<\/p>\n

Home Town:<\/b> Frenchtown, New Jersey<\/p>\n

Occupation:<\/b> I cook at the Main Street Cafe, this little 30-seat restaurant that serves eclectic food\u2014a lot of French, a lot of sauces. I’d say it’s towards the high end. I also work at the bike shop right next door. I’m a mechanic, salesperson, pretty much anything.<\/p>\n

The Bikes:<\/b> I have a mountain bike with 24-inch wheels and a road bike with 650c wheels, both custom titanium Sevens. They’re currently working on a titanium modified trials bike for me.<\/p>\n

The Situation:<\/b> I have cartilage-hair hypoplasia, which means I don’t have as much cartilage or ligament tissue as an average person. Also, my bone structure isn’t as strong. It’s not too major. I couldn’t play contact sports in high school and I probably shouldn’t ride trials, but that’s about it. The disease also affects growth, so I’m 4-foot-8 and weigh 103 pounds. As a result, the bikes I tried were all too heavy and too big. Anything that was close to my size was a kid’s bike\u2014they’re usually less expensive and aren’t high quality. I tried a 12-inch frame with 26-inch wheels, but I didn’t have any standover. I tried a bike with 24-inch wheels, but it was a tank, and had no suspension. There’s not much out there in my size that’s high quality, so I went to Seven.<\/p>\n

The Right Bike:<\/b> I’m now able to take it as far as I want to. Now the bike isn’t holding me back, it’s all up to me. The bike allows me to try stuff I would not have tried before.<\/p>\n

The New Life:<\/b> Before, I wasn’t a hard-core cyclist. I just used a bike to get around. When I got the right bike, I became obsessed with riding\u2014any kind of riding, as often as possible. It’s also affected my jobs. Before I was working just to pay bills. Now I work so I can spend more time riding. I feel more physically fit now, more at ease\u2014it’s brought my stress level down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Age: 27 Home Town: Frenchtown, New Jersey Occupation: I cook at the Main Street Cafe, this little 30-seat restaurant that serves eclectic food\u2014a lot of French, a lot of sauces. I’d say it’s towards the high end. I also work at the bike shop right next door. I’m a mechanic, salesperson, pretty much anything. The … Continue reading “Mountain Bike Magazine: Dave Gilheany”<\/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":[5],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","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=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11834,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}