Having just celebrated its 27th birthday, US-based Seven Cycles has always had grand ambitions. The name was chosen in part for its ambiguity, its association with luck and as an oblique gaze into the future when it would hopefully be servicing all seven continents. The core team cut its teeth with Merlin Metalworks in the 1990s before starting Seven in 1997. Since then the company has built more than 35,000 custom bikes with the emphasis on titanium and a one-by-one production method.
The Axiom has been around from the beginning, and over the years it has developed into three different models: the S, SL and XX. The S is the toughest and most resilient, the SL is the balanced all-rounder, while the XX is a lightweight, custom performance bike and is around 400g lighter than the S. XX is the Roman