{"id":5774,"date":"2016-03-17T16:08:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:33:05","slug":"the-future-of-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-future-of-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best compliments we get about our bikes is that they look clean, which is not to say &#8220;not dirty&#8221; but that their lines are clean and true and simple. The recent release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sram.com\/sram\/road\/family\/sram-red-etap\">SRAM&#8217;s eTap<\/a> components suggests builds are going to get even cleaner. Check out these two very different builds from our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascadebicyclestudio.com\/\">Cascade Bicycle Studio<\/a>, the first an <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/axiom-sl.php\">Axiom SL<\/a>, a straight-ahead road bike with a little bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/chriskingbuzz\/\">Chris King bling<\/a> to set off the single-color paint job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5775 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC05444-1024x683-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Axiom SL painted white with SRAM eTap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC05444-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC05444-1024x683-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC05444-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC05444-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5776 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04814-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Airheart SL with SRAM eTap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04814-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04814-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04814-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04814-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04814.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04857-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Rear fender detail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04857-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04857-1024x683-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04857-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC04857-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second one is a refined 650b <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/airheart-sl.php\">Airheart SL <\/a>travel bike. Matching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooksengland.com\/en_us\/saddles.html\">Brooks leather saddle<\/a> and bar tape are classy finishing touches, and the travel readiness only begins with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/options\/s-and-s-couplings.php\">S&amp;S couplers<\/a>. Check out the split, hammered fender, too. This is a high example of the intersection of form and function. eTap only makes this one easier to pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best compliments we get about our bikes is that they look clean, which is not to say &#8220;not dirty&#8221; but that their lines are clean and true and simple. The recent release of SRAM&#8217;s eTap components suggests builds are going to get even cleaner. Check out these two very different builds from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-future-of-clean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Future of Clean&#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":[1],"tags":[46,643,748,24,44,582,795,794,796,41,535,22,495],"class_list":{"0":"post-5774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-650b","8":"tag-airheart-sl","9":"tag-axiom-sl","11":"tag-bike-build","12":"tag-bike-design","13":"tag-brooks","14":"tag-chris-king","15":"tag-etap","16":"tag-friends-of-seven","17":"tag-paint-2","18":"tag-seven-retailers","19":"tag-travel-bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12410,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}