{"id":5444,"date":"2015-09-22T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:44:38","slug":"frans-ti-axiom-16yrs-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/frans-ti-axiom-16yrs-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran&#8217;s Ti Axiom (16yrs later)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People send us pictures of their bikes. This is common. Usually it&#8217;s a month or two after they&#8217;ve picked it up from their shop. They&#8217;ve ridden it a bit, and they write in to tell us they love it. It&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>Fran has taken a slightly unconventional approach to this sort of note, as you&#8217;ll see below. We actually delivered his <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/axiom-sl.php\">Ti Axiom<\/a> in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0422.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5452 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0422-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Ti Axiom\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0422-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0422-scaled-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0422-300x169.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><em>Hello,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write this for some time&hellip; years really.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My bike was built in the 2000\/2001 time frame. I remember speaking to someone on the phone back when I ordered the bike and the comment I made was that I&#8217;m looking for the best all around bike that I&#8217;ll never need to replace. You guys delivered!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A bad knee is what got me on a bike and I hadn&#8217;t been riding long when I got my Seven. I was in my late 30&#8217;s when I took delivery. As an adult I had been on 2 steel and 1 aluminum frames prior to the Seven. I still remember taking it out on the road the first time and thinking OMG how is this possible&hellip; it&#8217;s just a bike! What a beast!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0428.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5453 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0428-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"Fran Poses with his Trusty Axiom\" width=\"840\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0428-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0428-scaled-400x257.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAG0428-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I used to ride a lot in those days. Whether taking a leisurely ride, a testosterone ride, climbing, a century(or more) or whatever the bike has always been a pleasure to pedal. I&#8217;d take it to my LBS and people would just stare. My wife would get sick of hearing me talk about the bike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m now 53. Last time I had need to bring the bike to the LBS people still stared though more to comment on the &#8220;old technology&#8221;. After many surgeries the knee has interfered, or I&#8217;ve allowed it to interfere, with many things including riding. I recently had a sunny weekend at the Cape and had the presence of mind to dust off the bike and take it with me. First ride in a very long while and all I could think was OMG how is this possible&#038;hellp&#8217; it&#8217;s just a bike! It&#8217;s still a beast!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So again&hellip; thanks&hellip; you delivered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fran <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Axiom s\/n 5509I17 (still referred to by my wife as &#8220;The Mistress&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People send us pictures of their bikes. This is common. Usually it&#8217;s a month or two after they&#8217;ve picked it up from their shop. They&#8217;ve ridden it a bit, and they write in to tell us they love it. It&#8217;s nice. Fran has taken a slightly unconventional approach to this sort of note, as you&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/frans-ti-axiom-16yrs-later\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fran&#8217;s Ti Axiom (16yrs later)&#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":[748,24,6,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-5444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-axiom-sl","8":"tag-seven-customers","9":"tag-titanium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","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=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}