{"id":6467,"date":"2018-01-15T13:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:03:01","slug":"a-study-in-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/a-study-in-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Study in Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 13F at ride time this morning. Small flakes darted around on the wind. As the morning progressed, they got fatter, drifting and chasing each other into small cottony piles. We rode, and it was nice.\u00a0 We like pushing ourselves through the falling snow, and there are usually fewer cars on the road.<\/p>\n

It’s hard not to think of warmer days too, though.<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo from FOS (Friend of Seven) Mike Bybee<\/a> who was kind of us to put us in his new Sights of the Southwest 2018 calendar. Mike is an ardent explorer, bikepacker, and photographer. We built him this Sola SL 29er<\/a> adventure rig a few years ago, and so he’s taken us on some incredible adventures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was 13F at ride time this morning. Small flakes darted around on the wind. As the morning progressed, they got fatter, drifting and chasing each other into small cottony piles. We rode, and it was nice.\u00a0 We like pushing ourselves through the falling snow, and there are usually fewer cars on the road. It’s … Continue reading “A Study in Contrast”<\/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":[672,642,364,41,673,45,13,6,751,34],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bike-packing","tag-bikepacking","tag-evergreening","tag-friends-of-seven","tag-mike-bybee","tag-mountain-bikes","tag-photos-of-note","tag-seven-customers","tag-sola-sl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","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=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12031,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}