{"id":5541,"date":"2015-10-19T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:37:21","slug":"sean-at-the-cent-cols-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/sean-at-the-cent-cols-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean at the Cent Cols Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sean's<\/a><\/p>\n

This is Sean’s Axiom SL<\/a>, cooked up with our good friends at Cyclefit<\/a> in Covent Garden, London. We had a really nice note from him in the spring about his bike, and here is an end-of-summer follow up. This one was too good not to post:<\/p>\n

Hi Jimmy, Neil and John.<\/em><\/p>\n

I hope you’ve all had as good a summer as I have. As per Jimmy’s request below, I just wanted to let you know that my Axiom SL continues to fulfill my every wish – I take back nothing of what I wrote in May.<\/em><\/p>\n

My main goal this year was the Cent Cols Challenge, Cevennes edition. I’m 1 week back from it, and I can say that the bike performed beautifully – the roads were often harsh and broken, and the days were long, and while I was generally pretty shattered at the end of a day, I’m more than pleased with how the frame rode. Stiff, yes, but that’s what it’s supposed to be. Next time I’ll probably put 25\/28c tyres on it, but that’s a learning experience. It really is everything I wanted in a bike, and I have to say that amongst the sea of off the peg carbon bikes, it really stood out – I lost count of the number of times people said “What sort of bike is that? … Man, that’s a really nice frame”<\/em><\/p>\n

As is customary, I thought I’d attach a photograph – well, 80 photographs, actually. 80 of the 100 cols climbed over the 10 days, with the bike against each col marker sign.<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, massive thanks to all you guys, and the teams at Seven and Cyclefit… So very happy with my ride.<\/em><\/p>\n

Quick stats:<\/em><\/h4>\n