{"id":5891,"date":"2016-06-08T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:30:50","slug":"brians-622-slx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/brians-622-slx\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian&#8217;s 622 SLX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Brian&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/622-slx.php\">622 SLX<\/a>, built with our good friends at Get-a-Grip Cycles in Chicago. Brian was going for a very refined look, so <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/paint\/index.php\">he painted the 622&#8217;s carbon tubes Platinum<\/a> to match the titanium lugs and added a Ti post and stem. The result is pretty stunning, we think. Some kind words from Brian also, below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5893 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622a-1.jpg\" alt=\"622 SLX painted platinum and graphite\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622a-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622a-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622a-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5894 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622b.jpg\" alt=\"622 SLX painted platinum and graphite\" width=\"286\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622b.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622b-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Westphal622b-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Seven,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.it is EXTRORDINARY. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It really is a work of art.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for putting up with me \u2014 I was stressed about dropping so much dough on a bike, but seeing the end product I have absolutely NO regrets. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking forward to the inaugural ride tomorrow morning (I\u2019m a bit giddy at the thought of it!). \u00a0So far I&#8217;ve just spun around the block to test the saddle and eTap which were also both amazing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anyway, enjoy the pics and let me know what you think.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All my best,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Brian&#8217;s new 622 SLX, built with our good friends at Get-a-Grip Cycles in Chicago. Brian was going for a very refined look, so he painted the 622&#8217;s carbon tubes Platinum to match the titanium lugs and added a Ti post and stem. The result is pretty stunning, we think. Some kind words from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/brians-622-slx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brian&#8217;s 622 SLX&#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":[31,1002,340,211,51,776,6,22],"class_list":["post-5891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-31","tag-622-xx","tag-chicago","tag-get-a-grip","tag-paint","tag-road-bikes","tag-seven-customers","tag-seven-retailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891","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=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11966,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/11966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}