{"id":5812,"date":"2016-04-21T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:04:46","slug":"harolds-axiom-sl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/harolds-axiom-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold&#8217;s Axiom SL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Harold and his old <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/axiom-sl.php\">Axiom SL.<\/a> We built him a new one (see below) recently, and he sent us these photos and a kind note a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5814\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Harold prouldly presents his rebuilt Axiom SL\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cycling-2012-051.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve been tweaking my position on my new frame using the trainer but I hadn&#8217;t been outside with it until last night&#8217;s group ride.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to one of the regulars &#8216;Harold you were really strong last night&#8217;, my response was &#8216;I felt good and the bike feels great&#8217;. I still have some more tweaking to get done but the bike feels wonderful. I&#8217;m not sure what it is about those traditional frame design compared with the compact design but traditional just works so much better for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5815\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160320_104701-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Axiom SL with red decals\" width=\"840\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160320_104701-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160320_104701-scaled-400x277.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160320_104701-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160320_104701-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160320_104701-1200x830.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>At a tad over 16 pounds race weight I&#8217;m very happy. I&#8217;m looking forward to getting in some good miles this weekend thanks to warmer temperatures after doing 63 miles last night. First outside ride report is WONDERFUL!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Harold and his old Axiom SL. We built him a new one (see below) recently, and he sent us these photos and a kind note a few weeks ago. He writes: I&#8217;ve been tweaking my position on my new frame using the trainer but I hadn&#8217;t been outside with it until last night&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/harolds-axiom-sl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harold&#8217;s Axiom SL&#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":[748,24,799,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-axiom-sl","9":"tag-road-bikes","10":"tag-seven-customers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","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=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11953,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions\/11953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}