BikerZ's Seven - actual photos!

[bikerz]

Thanks, everyone for all your kind comments! It's a whole new thing having a bike I love!

Do you have a weight for the complete build?

The complete build is 19 pounds, more or less * (that's without water bottles and seat bag). My old bike was 22 pounds, same wheels and basically same components , so I think a good part of the difference must be in the frame itself. The Seven site says this frame weighs 3.2 lbs.

Yes, the hills around here can be serious, and the gearing is what lets me ride (veeerrryyy slowly) up them, rather than walk!

What were those handlebars again??

Salsa "Short and Shallow" (like me! )

Is that front wheel a 650, or does the angle of the picture just make it look smaller than the rear?

No, they're both 700s - it just a strange angle.

Oh...and what's the range on the cassette? With a 24 low up front, it looks like you'd be able to scale the Alps while seated with that bike! Kewl!!!

The Alps! No, they just help this heavy rider get up the Bay Area hills! The range of the gearing is great - 11-34 in back and 24-38-52 in front, and I've got everything from 2.6 mph going up (that takes some serious balance skills, let me tell ya!) and 40+ mph going down! This is the range I had on my old bike, and I think it is just the ticket for me.



* weighed by getting a friend to stand on the bathroom scale, with and without the bike! Probably not scientifically accurate!