Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  All day – and night – riding in all conditions and all terrain; worldwide travel.
How:  BTC couplersPDX City fenders,  Revelate Viscacha saddle bag, Revelate Mountain Feedbag, Ortlieb Ultimate 6 handlebar bag, Son28 generator hub, Edelux II headlight, Clement MSO 40c tires

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Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  Night riding mixed terrain exploration; wet conditions; more dirt than paved
How:  Son28 generator hub, Edelux II headlight, Clement MSO 40c tires

generator-light

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Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  Fast road rides.  Keep up with any pure road bike and still be able to roll in the woods
How:  Schwalbe One tires.  Full on road performance – and I’d still ride these on any mountain trail.

Schwalbe-one

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Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  Mostly paved conditions with the requisite dirt road sections.
How:  Ruffy Tuffy 28c slick tire.  As an aside, this tire and the Roll-y Pol-y are some of my favorite offroad tires.

ruffy-tuffy

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Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  Fast wet or dry conditions in mixed terrain; more paved and dirt.  Cyclocross style; fast handling for tight terrain.  Works great with 45mm fenders for those fun wet rides.
How:  Clement MSO 32  knobby with center ridge

Clement X-plor-MSO-32

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Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  Fast dry conditions in mixed terrain; equal parts paved and dirt
How:  Clement LAS 33c filetread tires

Clement LAS 33

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Model:  Seven Cycles Evergreen SL
Purpose:  Mixed terrain exploration; wet conditions; more dirt than paved
How:  Clement MSO 40c tires

Clement X-plor-MSO-40

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The next dozen or so posts will be of a recent Seven Cycles Evergreen SL bike in a bunch of configurations.  Starting in a classic set up and ending with my full on 24-hour offroad setup.

Vandermark Evergreen axle to axle

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Minuteman Aaron Smith of Minneapolis Musette - photo - Chip BakerWe had a visit today – at Seven Cycles, Honey Bikes, and Ride Studio Cafe – from Minneapolis Musette.  It was a great meeting.  He got a tour and got to ride a bunch.  Great guy and great retailer.

He’s very astute.  A few of his observations included:

 1. There is one ‘Dunkin’ for every ten Bostonians.

3. There exists not one straight road in all of Massachusetts.

a – ‘Safe’ Passing distance is around 1 to 4 inches

7. The Ride Studio Cafe folks are incredibly friendly and offer up their expe

I think he got all that correct.  Thanks Aaron!

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Apparently, spring training has begun, regardless of the falling snow.

Snow Ball

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