{"id":5836,"date":"2016-04-29T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:27:24","slug":"joe-cruz-the-treeline-sl-early-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/joe-cruz-the-treeline-sl-early-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Cruz, the Treeline SL Early Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joecruz.wordpress.com\/\">Our buddy Joe<\/a> is a bike-packer of some skill and repute. Regular readers <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/?p=5771\">will recall<\/a> that we built him a <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/treeline-sl.php\">Treeline SL<\/a> recently, in advance of a trip to Alaska (more on that to come). Now that he&#8217;s back, we&#8217;ve received an early review of the bike that we thought worth sharing.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5837 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Treeline SL in the rugged countryside\" width=\"601\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hey Seven,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Though I&#8217;ve had the Treeline for over a month, I&#8217;d only ever ridden it in Alaska on frozen rivers and snowmobile trails with a full load. It was fantastic in that context, the most perfect adventure bike I&#8217;ve been on.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5838 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2-1024x875.jpg\" alt=\"Treeline SL in the frosty woods\" width=\"840\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2-400x342.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2-1200x1025.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JCTSL2.jpg 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But tonight I joined up with our Thursday Night Mountain Bike Worlds and rode it unladen. Holy s*%t: that bike rips. I pointed it down chaotic corkscrew chunky pitches and it just carves and carves. The geo is brilliant, super fast turning but so easy to throw your hips to stand it back up it seemed like cheating. \u00a0So many thanks for your hard work. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More soon,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy Joe is a bike-packer of some skill and repute. Regular readers will recall that we built him a Treeline SL recently, in advance of a trip to Alaska (more on that to come). Now that he&#8217;s back, we&#8217;ve received an early review of the bike that we thought worth sharing. Hey Seven,\u00a0 Though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/joe-cruz-the-treeline-sl-early-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joe Cruz, the Treeline SL Early Review&#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":[373,672,41,792,45,754,43,745,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-5836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-bike-packing","9":"tag-friends-of-seven","10":"tag-joe-cruz","11":"tag-mountain-bikes","13":"tag-team-seven-cycles","14":"tag-treeline","15":"tag-treeline-sl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","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=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11958,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}