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Lion of Spring: Allroads bike fit & geometry options

Why Choose Rider Ready Geometry?

Seven's Rider Ready program provides you a handcrafted Seven with a more precise fit than any stock bike ever built. Each frame is crafted one at a time by the most experienced titanium framebuilding team in the world.

Choose Rider Ready over a production carbon bike:

  1. Ride faster: With Rider Ready you can go faster in four dimensions: Accelerate quicker, climb more easily, descend with more confidence, and corner with more control. We acheive all this through a unique combination of drivetrain stiffness, tubeset tailoring, improved rider fit, and balanced weight distribution. If you want to unpack some of this, read all about our limited edition LOSO (Lion of Spring Oversized) frame kit and our NineEx Precision Fit designs.
  2. Ride with more control: First, Seven designs all of our titanium frames to isolate drivetrain stiffness from the wheels' smooth tracking over rough terrain. We add vertical compliance where it helps with control and handling while maintaining stiffness where we want to maximize watt transfer. Second, our NineEx Precision Sizing ensures the best possible weight distribution between your tires' contact patches. Combined, you've got the best handling and controlable bike possible. Learn how we accomplish this on our Engineering the Lion page. Don't forget, control is speed.
  3. Ride farther and in more comfort: There are two distinct ways we accomplish this. First, our NineEx Precision Fit means a more accurate and easier fit. Second, Seven's use of titanium and proprietary tube modification create a smoothness of ride that no other material or design can match. With these factors combined, riders tell us they are able to log higher speeds on long rides and are fresher after those long rides. Don't forget, comfort is speed.

For a long list — with engineering details — of the ride enhancing qualities of Seven's Rider Ready, NineEx Fits, LOSO frame kit designs, and our framebuilding experience, check out our Engineering the Lion page.

Choose Rider Ready over Seven's custom program if you want to ride sooner. The Lion of Spring is ready to build. For this project, we're able to cut the lead time to about nine weeks; more than 50% faster than our current standard lead time. How? There are no design decisions to make. No rider fit to confirm. Just choose your Rider Ready fit type, kit details, and color palette on these pages. We'll start cutting metal right away.

Reasons that Seven's Rider Ready designs may not be ideal for you
  • Not sure about your proper fit? Choose our custom design; we and a retailer will work through every detail with you.
  • If you want to make changes to the Lion of Spring LTD design. Room for larger tires, a different fork, a different parts kit, rack mounts, etc.? Go the custom route and we can make any of those happen.
  • Rider Ready bikes, combined with this limited edition offer are the same price as our custom designs. We've invested hundreds of hours designing and testing the Lion of Spring bike. This limited edition is worth significantly more than the price. If price is a concern, we offer custom bikes starting at about $7,700.

Why Choose Seven's Custom Program?

Not sure of your ideal setup. With your retailer's help, we'll walk you through the entire process and ensure you get your perfect bike.

Want to make decisions off menu from this specific limited edition bike design. If you want to fit 50 mm tires, make the bike bikepacking capable, or get a SRAM mullet kit, let's make it happen as a full custom design.

Considerations of Seven's custom builds

It will take longer. Because of the collaborative nature of designing a bike together, sometimes it takes longer to reach the ideal design. If you need to stick to the lead time for an event or trip, be mindful of the custom timeline.

There is no Seven retailer in your area and if there's no professional bike fitter in your part of the world, going with a Rider Ready design may be the only way to get your Lion of Spring.

The custom path

Is custom right for you? Let's get started. Or, contact us take the next step.

Rider Ready: Optimzie your fit, performance, and handling

When choosing your fit, focus on the frame geometry rather than the terms we use to describe the fit. In other words, if the Endurance Fit is what works best for your riding position get that geometry even if you don't consider yourself an "endurance rider."

There are three fit categories to choose from. Each Fit category comes in 16 sizes each. 48 fits in all.

Endurance Fit
⚒ For the long ride		 Standard Fit
⚒ Balanced & fiesty		 Aero Fit
⚒ Fast & aero fit		 Custom Fit
⚒ Anything
Choose this design Choose Rider Ready Endurance Fit Choose Rider Ready Standard Fit Choose Rider Ready Aero Fit Choose Individualized Custom Fit
By the numbers Positional modifications relative to our Standard Fit: Higher handlebars and shorter reach:
  • About +3.0 cm frame stack
  • About -1.0 cm frame reach
In 16 sizes		 Standard Fit is our popular neutral riding position:
  • 0 cm frame stack modification
  • 0 cm frame reach modification
In 16 sizes		 Positional modifications relative to our Standard Fit: Longer reach from saddle to bars and lower bars:
  • About -3.0 cm frame stack
  • About +1.0 cm frame reach
In 16 sizes		 Custom design: Whatever you want.
Defining the fit You love longer rides. You love being comfortable after 70 miles. You ride lots of miles in early spring and late fall. Maybe all winter. Stabilty and control in all conditions. Fast club rides. Pack riding, jostling. Our most popular geometry. Does everything very well. Predictable. Surefooted. Aero position. Watts over comfort. All out speed through tight turns, during acceleration, and climbing. Criteriums. Full-time rider. Aero fit all the time. Custom fit can probably be whatever you want.