{"id":6276,"date":"2017-02-10T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:18:24","slug":"river-city-bicycles-and-the-spirit-of-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/river-city-bicycles-and-the-spirit-of-77\/","title":{"rendered":"River City Bicycles and the Spirit of ’77"},"content":{"rendered":"

River City Bicycles<\/a> owner Dave Guettler is something of a spiritual leader in our industry. He has managed, over a couple of decades, to show the way forward, to inspire people with his passion for cycling, AND to build the best shop in Portland, OR.<\/p>\n

Dave is also a basketball fan, and when RCB invited us to build a pro-baller size bike for them as an homage to the Blazers’ 1977 championship team, we felt honored and excited.<\/p>\n

\"Seven<\/p>\n

Of course, no one does it like RCB, so they took our Evergreen S<\/a> frame and finished it with basketball leather bar tape.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Check out this cool video they made about the inspiration and final build:
\nPro Build Collection –\u00a0\u201977 Seven<\/a><\/p>\n

From the shop:<\/p>\n

This is the first in our Pro Build Collection film series and it’s an all-star. We build lots and lots of incredible custom bikes at River City Bicycles because, let’s face it, we love bicycles. You know what else we love – basketball! Dave Guettler, River City Bicycles founder and owner, is a fan, Trailblazer season ticket holder, and has seen many Blazers come through the store as customers. Dave wanted a bicycle in store for \u00a0the next Trailblazer, or any customer that tall, and the result is a titanium road bike built to commemorate the 1977 NBA Championship won by the Portland Trailblazers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Seven Cycles perfectly executed a clean, stylish frame build and our service department spec’d it with top-tier components from Shimano, Enve Composites, and Portland’s own Chris King Precision Components. For the finishing touch we turned to Walnut Bespoke Leather Designs<\/a>\u00a0from Nehalem, Oregon who created basketball leather bar tape, tool roll strap, and pant cuff bands. Let\u2019s go\u00a0<\/a>Rip City!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

River City Bicycles owner Dave Guettler is something of a spiritual leader in our industry. He has managed, over a couple of decades, to show the way forward, to inspire people with his passion for cycling, AND to build the best shop in Portland, OR. Dave is also a basketball fan, and when RCB invited … Continue reading “River City Bicycles and the Spirit of ’77”<\/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":[44,41,867,38,866,253,22,1185],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bike-build","tag-friends-of-seven","tag-portland-trailblazers","tag-project-bike","tag-rip-city","tag-river-city-bicycles","tag-seven-retailers","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","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=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12012,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/12012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}