{"id":6248,"date":"2017-01-25T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:07:03","slug":"the-real-ride-gets-realer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-real-ride-gets-realer\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL Ride Gets Real(er)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2017\/01\/23\/taking-hard-way-across-country-off-road-bike-raise-money\/GYooekrwrYCRDTk6PLw81L\/story.html\">The Boston Globe ran\u00a0a feature<\/a> on The REAL Ride this week, bringing even more local attention to this ambitious event, which will raise money for school kids who are struggling to stay on track.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6249 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG_Cris_Rothfuss.jpg\" alt=\"Caracture of Cris Rothfuss\" width=\"296\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG_Cris_Rothfuss.jpg 371w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG_Cris_Rothfuss-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our friend Cris (caricatured here) told The Globe, \u201cMany people ride across the country on pavement, but we\u2019re going to do it in an alternative way that will challenge ourselves like these students are challenged,\u201d said Rothfuss. \u201cThese kids are off-track in the sense that they\u2019ve wandered from a traditional educational path, but they\u2019re making their way to a diploma, and their route is rigorous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The REAL Ride will cross the country, from Seattle to Boston using dirt roads and farm paths to the greatest extent possible, stretching the distance from 3,000 to 5,000 miles. The team will ride mainly Seven&#8217;s Evergreen line of adventure bikes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Art:\u00a0CHRIS MORRIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe ran\u00a0a feature on The REAL Ride this week, bringing even more local attention to this ambitious event, which will raise money for school kids who are struggling to stay on track. Our friend Cris (caricatured here) told The Globe, \u201cMany people ride across the country on pavement, but we\u2019re going to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-real-ride-gets-realer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The REAL Ride Gets Real(er)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[828,3,364,41,5,851],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-advocacy","tag-events","tag-evergreening","tag-friends-of-seven","tag-press","tag-the-real-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","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=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17955,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/17955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}