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!

[rij73]

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

Heck, that's the way I weigh our bikes! 19lbs is the same as my husband's Specialized Roubaix all carbon! Now I'm even more jealous! Build your bike with a flat bar and high-end grip shifters, and I'd be stealing it from you.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

GORGEOUS, GORGEOUS BIKE!!!!!!

[Jo-n-NY]

Wishing you much luck along with Safe and enjoyable riding miles. It's a beauty!!!

~ JoAnn

[snapdragen]

She's a beauty!

[SadieKate]

I wanna red lockring! Is that Shimano, SRAM, IRD, what? I remember you saying something but I was thinking dustcap for the crank for some reason. Where'd ya get that lockring, and red spacers, too! Zooooom!

[Trek420]

I wanna red lockring! Is that Shimano, SRAM, IRD, what? I remember you saying something but I was thinking dustcap for the crank for some reason. Where'd ya get that lockring, and red spacers, too! Zooooom!

Built by Chris @ Robinson Wheelworks (Hi Chris!!!)

[bikerz]

I wanna red lockring! Is that Shimano, SRAM, IRD, what? I remember you saying something but I was thinking dustcap for the crank for some reason. Where'd ya get that lockring, and red spacers, too! Zooooom!

SRAM PG-990!

[SadieKate]

Thanks, BikerZ. Bubba swapped over to SRAM on his Santa Cruz Superlight last year but he kept his Shimano cassette. I wonder if he knows the zoot factor he's missing out on.

On the otherhand, I'm the one with the good taste to have a red mountain bike, not him.

[luv2fly]

Beautiful!!!!!! Congrats!