{"id":7006,"date":"2018-03-12T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:08:20","slug":"snowward-bound-the-four-season-sola-2x2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/snowward-bound-the-four-season-sola-2x2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowward Bound &#8211; The Four-Season Sola 2&#215;2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7008 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"The Four Seasons Sola covered in snow shines it's warm light into the night\" width=\"840\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199-400x212.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199-1200x635.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03199.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to a good snowfall, especially one that sets up overnight leaving a fresh, untouched blanket in the local woods. Having just released the <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-four-season-sola-2x2\/\">Four-Season Sola 2&#215;2<\/a>, we were anxious to get it out into some &#8220;conditions,&#8221; and our New England weather obliged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7009 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclist rides a snow forest trail in the night\" width=\"840\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180-400x212.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180-1200x635.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03180.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We opted for 27.5&#8243; x 3&#8243; tires and our Seven Adventure Bar. Snow riding calls for keeping your weight back and balanced over the wheels. This was a heavy snow and the temperature was high enough that what was on the ground had a high ice content. We didn&#8217;t let that bother us, snaking in and out of familiar trails made entirely new by sagging of branches and obscuring of rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7010 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"A 'Four Seasons' painted Sola + SL top tube covered in snow\" width=\"840\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211-400x212.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211-1200x635.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC03211.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bike was flawless, a perfect match for the pristine pre-dawn. Rides like this both exhaust you and recharge your batteries at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look forward to a good snowfall, especially one that sets up overnight leaving a fresh, untouched blanket in the local woods. Having just released the Four-Season Sola 2&#215;2, we were anxious to get it out into some &#8220;conditions,&#8221; and our New England weather obliged. We opted for 27.5&#8243; x 3&#8243; tires and our Seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/snowward-bound-the-four-season-sola-2x2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snowward Bound &#8211; The Four-Season Sola 2&#215;2&#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":[],"tags":[904,382,18,907,38,15,521,751,34],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2x2","tag-adventure","tag-featured-product","tag-four-season","tag-project-bike","tag-rd-prototypes","tag-snow","tag-sola-sl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","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=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12040,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/12040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}