{"id":6385,"date":"2017-07-11T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:04:16","slug":"bikes-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/bikes-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes say our bikes are worthy of hanging on walls, that they are art, which is a nice thing to say, but makes us feel a little uncomfortable. In our minds bikes are tools, transportation, toys, etc. They should look great, if you can manage it, but we want people, first and foremost, to ride them. A lot. Which is rather hard to do when they&#8217;re hanging on a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine our surprise when Rhys W sent us this photo. It&#8217;s of his wife and her Seven <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/mudhoney-sl.php\">Mudhoney SL<\/a>, which she rides a lot, but also hangs on the wall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6386 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall-761x1024.png\" alt=\"A huge painting of a cyclist hangs behind a real-life version of the bike\" width=\"761\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall-761x1024.png 761w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall-400x538.png 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall-768x1033.png 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall-1200x1614.png 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Woodall.png 1485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He also wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>Seven. BEST investment ever for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Buy a Seven, ride it, and then you will understand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rhys<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes say our bikes are worthy of hanging on walls, that they are art, which is a nice thing to say, but makes us feel a little uncomfortable. In our minds bikes are tools, transportation, toys, etc. They should look great, if you can manage it, but we want people, first and foremost, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/bikes-and-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bikes and Art&#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":[881,37,104,6],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-art","tag-cross-bikes","tag-mudhoney-sl","tag-seven-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","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=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12021,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/12021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}