All-New Limited Edition:

The OVRLND XX Titanium Gravel Bike

Redefining gravel riding

At home on gravel. Quick on road. Capable on trails.

This bike project is a collaboration between Cyclefit in London, England, and Seven Cycles in Boston, MA. The bike is a Limited Edition available through Thursday, April 30. When the clock has run out, this design will never be available again.

Why choose Seven's OVRLND XX gravel bike?

The OVRLND is an entirely new gravel bike design. Every element of the bike is different from what's come before. From the internal routing ports to the dropout interfaces and everything in between, we've updated each aspect of what you've come to expect from a gravel bike. Some of the elements are visibly obvious, while some are subtle but no less important. Read on to learn about the subtleties.

The OVRLND's namesake, "overland" describes the bike's use. It can be ridden on just about any terrain. It's a very capable road machine with the right tires. It behaves like a drop-bar mountain bike when the trails get rough. It's happy on any terrain in between, too.

We call it the OVRLND because this is the most versatile mixed-terrain performance bike we've ever built.

In short, the OVRLND XX is SUPERCAPABLE:

Super at everything you'd ever want a gravel bike to be.

• Superversatile: At home on gravel. Quick on road. Capable on trails. Optimized for two wheel sizes. Our dropped chainstay design provides more clearance for every tire from 650b x 51 mm to 700c x 43 mm. Our new Rider Ready geometry offers a balanced rider position with race-worthy performance.
• Superefficient: Our new tubeset technology and oversized design — featuring Seven's one-inch chainstays — provides the best power transfer of any gravel bike Seven has ever built. The frame has a super stiff drivetrain for maximum watts conversion.
• Supersleek: Internal cable routing. Seven's progressive Our Moto seat stays and our dropped chainstay design. It looks fast, and it rolls faster.
• Superdurable: Seven's proprietary titanium tubeset promises a lifetime of performance and a warranty to back it up.
• Supernew: Everything.

The OVRLND model also designates that the bike has disc brakes, dropped handlebars, and works with a range of tire sizes for many types of terrain. Seven's proprietary titanium material choice provides the bike with toughness, lightness, and a very smooth ride. The "XX" tubeset designation attests we've tailored the titanium to be as light as possible without sacrificing long-term service. The XX tubeset is Seven's lightest frame platform by about 150 grams, on average.

Why choose this Limited Edition Collaboration design?

Using Seven's OVRLND frame platform as its base, the Colab bike's list of additional features and value is so long you're sure to miss some of them. Here's a summary. More details can be found toward the bottom of this page.

• Very Limited Edition: Available only through the end of April, once May 1 arrives, this offer is gone. Forever. Don't miss out on what we think may be the coolest, best-performing gravel bike ever.
• Colab: We've collaborated with Cyclefit UK on this bike. It begins with 40,000+ fits and designs between Cyclefit and Seven. Designs for countless world champions, national champions, Olympians, etc. This means you're getting the best fitting, best performing bike available.
• Framebuilding Team: What's more important than having smart capable humans building your bike? Not much, really. Therefore, for this project, we've brought together three of our most experienced builders. Together, Stef, Dan, and John have been building Sevens for over 40-years. They've worked on more than 15,000 custom frames in that time. If that doesn't make you want this bike, we don't know what would.
• Innovative Rider Ready Design: Means full custom, uncomplicated, with delivery within four-weeks. It's the best of all worlds. And only available in this partnership with Cyclefit.
• Custom color Industry Nine wheels: We worked with Industry Nine on our limited edition Distant Dusk graphics package. Cool, understated, and reflective for when dusk isn't so distant.
• Supporting the cause: With each bike sold, Cyclefit is donating to a London-based children's relief fund. Seven Cycles is matching the donation to the Boston Resiliency Fund. Your bike purchase helps keep frontline workers and our most at-risk citizens safe from COVID-19.

The design and geometry is optimized for both endurance gravel adventure riding with an emphasis on riding fast and at your limit. The bike can do anything you push it to do. This bike is state of the art in versatility because of the inclusion of Seven's most current technology and upgrades combined with the Cyclefit Colab.

The Seven Colab

Seven's Colab Venture is an ongoing series where we work with our best and smartest partners to develop new bike projects.

Cyclefit is the perfect partner for the Colab. Our decadelong relationship with Cyclefit UK and its founders Julian Wall and Phil Cavell means they're more like family than associates. They are masters of bike fit and optimizers of rider performance – really masters of all things bikes. We're honored to work with them on this bike project.

This bike is the culmination of 10-years of intense work to build the best bikes ever. That's what we call collaboration.

The Framebuilding Team

One of the most important elements of this bike, or any bike you're thinking about investing in, is who builds yours. Do they have extensive framebuilding experience? Do they understand what gravel riding is? Do they care about cycling as much as you do?

With Seven, the answer to all of these questions is, yes. For this Limited Edition project, we have three of our most experienced builders handcrafting your frame. Between them they have nearly 40-years of framebuilding experience.

While working on your frame, Dan, Stef, and John work on nothing else. This singular focus creates a better frame with more precise details.

Framebuilder: Dan Cariolo

Dan is always thinking about the rider, the bike, and the process together.

Dan has been a framebuilder with Seven for nearly a decade. During that time, he's built more than 3,000 custom bikes. You may not recognize his name, but he has more experience than just about any framebuilder in the country.

Continually looking at the big picture and seeking to improve the quality of every cope, file stroke, bend, and measurement, Dan will be found in the machining area, asking the right questions about everything we do — while simultaneously building more frames faster every day.

Welder: Stef Adams

You will not find a better frame in the world than one that Stef has welded.

Stef has been welding titanium frames for 20 years. This is more experience and certainly more frames welded than just about any welder ever. She's lost count, but it's many thousands of frames. Throughout her time welding, she's continually refined her craft. A correct weld is a lot more than just a clean and even bead. Frame alignment and durability are essential, too. These invisible elements are only achievable through experience and focused practice. By that measure, you will not find a straighter, stronger, more beautiful frame anywhere by anyone.

Not only is Stef one of the most experienced titanium welders on the planet, but she has also designed many frames during her tenure at Seven. She's worked with individual customers from the ground up to co-design some of the most smile-producing bikes on road and dirt.

Framebuilder: John Tomai

John is a framebuilder's framebuilder.

John has worked in the bike industry for more than a decade, and he's been a framebuilder with Seven Cycles for over five years. In that time, he's built more than 1,000 custom frames of every design imaginable. And he's thought deeply about each one of them.

This bike project is a good fit for John because he has been riding dirt and gravel for years. Even more important, John is thoughtful about each element of the framebuilding process. Questioning everything and always looking to make improvements. You want John thinking about and working on your frame.

Teamwork

Every bike project at Seven requires a team of people, including design, geometry, tubeset specifications, materials sourcing, inspection, bike assembly, shipping and receiving, back-office work, and R&D. Every bike we build gets touched literally and figuratively by every person in the company. Every single employee is essential to the process of delivering your dream bike.

Rider Ready Design

Full custom. Uncomplicated.

The idea of Rider Ready Design came out of a series of conversations between Cyclefit and Seven's design team, with an intention to reflect the extraordinary times we are currently living in. Rider Ready is envisioned to creatively harness the world's most advanced titanium workshop with the world's most respected fitting laboratory, to bring you a bicycle that will perform for a lifetime. Rider Ready removes every factor of friction associated with achieving a truly handmade, custom bike. Behind the scenes, Seven and Cyclefit have streamlined every aspect of the order, management, and framebuilding steps.

An added benefit is much quicker delivery than any custom bike program that's come before.

Here are a few of the innovative features of any Rider Ready bike design:

• Rider Position & Bike Fit by CycleFit who have completed 10,000 fits in twenty years — will determine the ideal frame size and bike-fit for you based on their two decades of experience and pioneering work in the field of cycling biomechanics. This, combined with Seven's database from designing more than 35,000 bikes, makes for the best fitting and performing bike in the industry.
• Fit metrics review: Cyclefit can not only work on fit-metrics they may have for you themselves, but also data from other fit-studios and systems. There will be an ½ hour Zoom or Skype review if required.
• Quick delivery: The fastest custom bike build in the world. Ready to ride in just four weeks from order date.
• Ready to ride: The complete bike is shipped directly to you from Cyclefit, fully assembled and ready to ride out of the box.
• Ready to framebuild Seven's team of master framebuilders is prepared to move the moment we receive the order. This bike is their priority. Each Rider Ready frame is hand-built, one at a time, only for you, by this team.
• Ready for assembly: One of the most time-consuming steps of bike building is sourcing the thirty-odd components required. Cyclefit has curated and sourced these kits, so they're ready to assemble the bike immediately.

Fitting & Design Experience

Cyclefit and Seven combined have fit and designed bikes for more than 40,000 riders. We're pretty confident this is far more than any other design team, ever. This deep experience means you're getting a better, more nuanced, and higher performing fit combined with a better performing balanced bike design.

Frame Features & Upgrade Details

We've packed more features and innovations into this OVRLND bike than any other gravel bike we've ever offered.

Headtube internal cable routing

Clean lines, contemporary, versatile compatibility

Seven's uniquely clean internal routing works with everything: hydraulic brakes, cable shifting, electronic shifting, dropper post, light wiring, and anything else you can think of. Our design has entry ports on the headtube and is fully internal until it exits near the rear hub.

Available only on our XX series of bikes.

Seven's internal routing system includes a lifetime warranty.

Double wheel design: 700c and 650b

Your bike can be perfectly tailored to nearly any ride that includes dirt. This bike is optimized for:

• 700c x 36 mm. Fits up to 43 mm knobbies.
• 650b x 47 mm. Fits up to 51 mm knobbies.

Oversized custom tubeset

We developed and sourced a new tubeset for the OVRLND XX. This includes massive one-inch chainstays, a 38 mm down tube, oversized dropouts, and the new T47 oversized bottom bracket shell. We had to develop new processes to bend and shape these tubes. The result is a 2x increase in drivetrain stiffness.

Dropped chainstay

The dropped chainstay design allows us to provide significant tire clearance for up to 650b x 51 mm tires while maintaining short chainstays to ensure agile race-ready handling.

The drive side stay is dropped, and the non-drive side stay is inline, so the pair of stays is asymmetric.

Moto seat stays

Our Moto seat stays allow for more aggressive cornering, more sure-footed hairpin descents, and better terrain feel in the worst conditions. This seat stay design is an upgrade from our standard, dual-bend inline seat stays.

With these stays, we've been able to improve rear tire traction without reducing frame stiffness. We achieve these traction improvements through a combination of a more aggressive bend profile and bending in multiple 3-dimensional planes. What you get is a seat stay with a more dramatic shape that dissipates multi-directional force while minimizing weight.

T47 bottom bracket

T47 is an emergent standard that provides a larger stiffer shell for the most contemporary oversized crankset spindles and most durable bearing systems. T47 helps future-proof your drivetrain system options.

Fender mounts

Unobtrusive fender mounts on both bridges and the dropouts make sure you're ready for any weather. The fork has integrated fender mounts, too.

Graphics: Distant Dusk

Distant Dusk is a limited edition design inspired by the current social distancing most of us have been asked to do. That, combined with the idea of long-distant riding — until dusk — felt like the right idea for these graphics.

The scheme features reflective black and white accents, so if you're riding after dusk, you'll still be highly visible.

This design also highlights our First-Light logo. This is something we've done for a yet unreleased project. We're teasing it here. We've got both dusk and the sunrise in pone design. What could be better than riding dawn to dusk except maybe riding dusk to dawn.

To tie the enter scheme together, we worked with our partners at Industry Nine wheels on an attenuated custom blue spoke design that matches Seven's dark blue decal system.

The entire bike is balanced and works together really well.

Fork Details

We designed the Matador carbon fork from the ground up. Seven's 765 Endurance version of the Matador fork includes some essential features for endurance gravel riding:

• 700c and 650b wheels: The number "765" stands for the two wheel sizes we've designed the fork for. This is not a trivial feat, but our latest generation Matador works with both wheels and an array of tire sizes. The fork fits up to 650b x 54 mm tires — or 2.1" — and up to 45 mm x 700c tires.
• Smooth: Carbon forks are often overly stiff. This is fine for shorter rides, but for 100-mile mixed-terrain events, a smoother riding for will provide several advantages: you'll feel better and less beat up at the finish. Your bike will handle better and have better traction on rough terrain.
• Stable & predictable: No disc brake fork has more rake than the Matador. This long-rake design provides more predictable steering at changing speeds. The design also affords more front center for less toe overlap.
• Flat mount brake mount: The Matador has a native flat-mount, so it's future-proofed, lighter, and simpler than a lot of available forks.
• Integrated fender mounts

You can find more specifications about Seven's Matador forks.

Titanium as a framebuilding material at Seven

Durable, light, and smooth with extremely tunable ride characteristics.

A well designed titanium gravel bike is about as good as it gets. The primary benefits of the 3-2.5 titanium alloy that Seven builds with include:

• Super tough and strong
• Smooth ride
• Excellent wheel traction and surefootedness
• The most tunable ride characteristics – from super stiff to super plush
• Impervious to weather conditions

For more details and nuance about titanium's attributes continue reading.

Seven's Engineering Experience

Seven's founding engineering team has overseen the fabrication of over 60,000 titanium frames. More than 30-years of titanium framebuilding experience helps Seven delivery the most finely tuned highest quality titanium frames available. Our founding engineer has more years of continuous titanium framebuilding experience than anyone else on the planet. This knowledge and heritage go into every frame we craft.

Seven's Unique Approach with Titanium

Seven's method of titanium framebuilding is extremely personalized and very engineered. There is not a single piece of the frame that Seven's designers and engineers don't modify or work to improve. This is true not only with the tubeset but also with the other parts of the frame. We design every single element in-house including the dropouts, bottom bracket, and head tube. Having complete control over every piece of the design results in a better performing bike every time. In-house designs also ensure a more durable lighter bike.

Titanium's Defining Characteristics

Here are some of the universal defining characteristics of Seven's titanium gravel frame designs:

• Excels at long rides. The longer the ride the more titanium shines. The material's shock absorption characteristics protect your body so you'll have more energy and feel better at the end of the ride.
• Good vibration damping characteristics. Chip seal pavement is a good example of high frequency vibration. When properly designed a titanium frame can virtually eliminate this type of vibration.
• Toughness: It can handle rough treatment. If you're tough on equipment titanium is the right material.
• Excellent shock absorption. The rougher the pavement the more benefit you get from titanium.
• Longevity: No frame material will last longer than a properly built titanium frame. Titanium's fatigue life is longest of all bike materials. If you want a lifetime bike it has to start with titanium.
• Light weight. Second only to carbon fiber, titanium offers the best balance of all characteristics riders usually want in a bike frame. Certainly the best strength-to-weight ratio of any material formed into frame tubes.
• Impervious to environmental conditions, snow, rain, road salt, and sea air.
• Tunable ride characteristics. Seven can control the drivetrain stiffness and vertical compliance independent of each other because of the way we can manipulate the tubeset.
• Makes the best travel bike because it's tough and doesn't require paint.

The folklore of titanium's "flexiness"

Titanium is a misunderstood material, if it's understood at all. It's most commonly misperceived that titanium frames are flexible. There have been plenty of flexible titanium frames made – especially in the early days of titanium. However, because the material is so tunable and controllable we can actually make a titanium frame extremely stiff if the rider desires that. We've built plenty of track bikes and bikes for riders over 300 lbs. If you want stiff, titanium may be the ideal material with which to build your frame.

Just because titanium excels at providing a shock absorbing ride doesn't mean it has to be plush. If you want your teeth to rattle we can deliver.

Seven's Proprietary "SL" Tubeset

Do It All, Up For Anything, Balanced Characteristics

Our most popular tubeset design, the SL provides a compelling balance of light weight, durability, and performance. We do this through butting the tubeset. More precisely, double-butting. The butting process makes the tubes stronger at the welds and lighter everywhere else. The SL tubeset has other unique features, including our exclusive dropout design, our machined in-house head tubes, and more.

And, as always, every frame we build is to whatever level of stiffness and plushness you want.

Seven has been building butted framed bikes for more than 20-years. In fact, Seven's founding engineer invented the first process for butting tiitanium tube more than three decades ago. Since then, he's invented a number of other titanium butting methods, too. And every year we find ways to refine and improve the SL tubeset design, dropouts, and all the small parts.

Here are a few of the benefits of Seven's SL double-butted tubeset technology:

• Climbing: Because of the SL's design, the bike has better traction than any other material so you'll climb faster. We can also tune the tubeset for optimal drivetrain stiffness.
• Descending: Titanium's shock absorbtion provides improved traction and tracking control which enables you to descend faster and with more confidence than with any other material.
• Seven's SL tubeset can be a smoother, more comfortable, shock-absorbing ride than almost any other bike available because we tune the tubeset so specifically. Of course, if you prefer a super stiff frame, we can do that too.
• Super tough for harsh conditions. This titanium SL design won't let you down.
• Extremely tailored: Our tube butting process is performed one tube at a time for each individual rider. Your bike will ride better for whatever your focus.

Rider Weight Range: For Seven's SL butted titanium tubeset there is no rider weight limit.