{"id":7013,"date":"2018-03-13T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:56:37","slug":"seven-design-philosophy-understanding-chainstays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/seven-design-philosophy-understanding-chainstays\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Design Philosophy &#8211; Understanding Chainstays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Cycles offers a variety of chainstay styles, each with their own unique features and benefits. Our most popular designs include our Inline stays and Chopped stays.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6975 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot-1024x680.png\" alt=\"night shot of a bike's drive train with a dropped chainstay\" width=\"319\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot-400x266.png 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot-1200x797.png 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GordianNot.png 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 85vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The popular perception is that chainstay length is one of the most important factors in bike design because stay length affects bike handling, acceleration, climbing ability, and descending stability. While it\u2019s true that chainstay length has an important impact on all those aspects of a bike\u2019s character, stay length is only one factor in more than 200 design parameters that go into developing an ideal bike.<\/p>\n<p>Anytime we put too much emphasis on one design element at the sacrifice of others, the result is a sub-optimal riding experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Cycles offers a variety of chainstay styles, each with their own unique features and benefits. Our most popular designs include our Inline stays and Chopped stays. The popular perception is that chainstay length is one of the most important factors in bike design because stay length affects bike handling, acceleration, climbing ability, and descending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/seven-design-philosophy-understanding-chainstays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven Design Philosophy &#8211; Understanding Chainstays&#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":[582,500,908,20,15],"class_list":["post-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bike-design","tag-chainstays","tag-design-philosophy","tag-featured-option","tag-rd-prototypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013","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=7013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17921,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions\/17921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}