Seven Red Sky Pro

[merckxman]

Seven brought this model to bike shop event. Very nice looking, I wasn't familiar with it. Ti and carbon. More photos of the Ti lugs: https://sevencycles.com/bikes/redsky-pro.php

[roguedog]

If I recall, it's a mid-reach bike, isn't it? The Pro must be the carbon part. Seemed cool when I was looking for more tire clearance on my bike.

[d_douglas]

I don’t like the paint personally, but the bike itself looks amazing. I would right that !

[oliviabrandon36]

I love me bikes black......Color a no no to me
But bike is great

[DeBike]

Nice bike, and surprisingly, I like the paint scheme. It's kind of flashy without all the bling.

[tellyho]

Kinda surprised they photographed with 28s with all that empty space at the caliper.

[ERK55]

Interesting bike which seems to be built around their proprietary mid-reach “Seven PureRoad” carbon fork. Axle-to-crown length is 389mm so the fork isn’t really replaceable with anything else on the market. Personally I’ve never broken a fork, but still….I guess you have to hope that Seven keeps these in supply.

[David in Maine]

I believe that is Patria Lanfranchi's personal bike. She runs the Ride Headquarters mobile bike shop and is married to Rob Vandermark. I love my all raw Ti Redsky SL, but I must admit, I have mild worries about fork supply if I need to replace in the future. I suppose if Seven stops making the fork, I could commission a custom steel replacement.

David

[ColonelJLloyd]

I have read this before regarding the Seven PureRoad medium reach fork. Does anyone know for sure that the A-C is 389mm on that fork no matter the rake? They offer offsets from 39-61mm which would produce a HTA 0.5d different if a 39mm offset was swapped for a 61mm offset. I would expect the A-C to be such that it puts the brake track at the appropriate place for a given offset.

If we assume each has the same A-C (I don't) then if you replaced your Seven PureRoad medium reach fork with 51mm offset and 389mm A-C on a bike which as a 73d HTA with the Seven fork, for the Whisky Rd. No. 7 medium reach then the resulting HTA would be 73.65d.

TL;DR: I suspect the 389mm A-C listed is for the 61mm offset version of the Seven fork.

[Zackus]

does anyone know if you can buy this fork from Seven? I had heard mumblings that forks were only being sold with new frames. Potentially that's also expanded to customers of new frames should they need a replacement?

[romalor]

their fork section doesn't show a straight steerer fork option anymore

they have a tapered mid reach fork
just ask them if they have some left overs, but probably for original customers I guess, warranty, crash replacements whtvr

[huck*this]

Also not a fan of the painted ti and carbon but given the model name of the bike I bet it looks amazing in person. Seven has great attention to detail.

[NYCfixie]

Originally Posted by David in Maine

I believe that is Patria Lanfranchi's personal bike. She runs the Ride Headquarters mobile bike shop and is married to Rob Vandermark. I love my all raw Ti Redsky SL, but I must admit, I have mild worries about fork supply if I need to replace in the future. I suppose if Seven stops making the fork, I could commission a custom steel replacement.

David

Yes, that is Patria Lanfranchi-Vandermark's bike. She rides the heck out of that thing and changes wheels/tire all the time.

I saw the bike when new circa 2017/2018 while I was living in the Boston area. It was a "proof of concept" and launch of the new model name. All the mid-reach brake option bikes were previously built under other model lines (i.e. Axiom, Axiom SL).

I was irritated at the time because I ordered my Axiom SL Mid-Reach bike from RSC/RHQ and 2 weeks later they announce RedSky and Patria shows the bike. The only differences as far as I remember are the name and the rear fender mounts are in different places: My Axiom SL Mid-Reach has them on the rear drops and the RedSky has them hidden on the inside of the lower seat tubes.

Originally Posted by Zackus

does anyone know if you can buy this fork from Seven? I had heard mumblings that forks were only being sold with new frames. Potentially that's also expanded to customers of new frames should they need a replacement?

As for the fork, I bought an extra and keep it in a box. They tried to talk me out of it by stating they can always replace the headtube and use the new tapered forks but I ride a 53cm and wanted the older style straight fork because it is not as harsh on smaller frames.

[benb]

I don't think I've ever seen a Red Sky out on the road in the last 5-6 years.

These were very intriguing when they were announced. I think all these years later it has become a bike targeted at us oldsters as people in their 20s especially now think rim brakes are hopelessly out of date.

Are people saying this particular bike has been around for a long time?

I used to go to RSC a lot, I don't think this exact bike is very old, I went on plenty of rides she was on or was leading and never saw it, and you never went on a ride she was on without a presentation at some point on whatever new Seven bike she had that day.

I would want to try one before buying not because of anything like the frame and fork but I'd just to try the brakes.

I kind of suspect if I do go back and buy one it would be an Evergreen though. When I was looking at getting a Seven I was very much in the "get another rim brake mode" but at this point 8 years later I'm much more of the mindset of some kind of all-around do everything bike with discs.

I kind of feel like they sucked the life out of my area when they closed RSC. I don't think I realized just how many of the people out on the road were on their rides, I have been riding a lot this year and I am seeing so few cyclists in the area. It feels like 2000 again. I really miss their sunday morning mixed terrain ride.

[NYCfixie]

Originally Posted by benb

I don't think I've ever seen a Red Sky out on the road in the last 5-6 years.

These were very intriguing when they were announced. I think all these years later it has become a bike targeted at us oldsters as people in their 20s especially now think rim brakes are hopelessly out of date.

Are people saying this particular bike has been around for a long time?

I used to go to RSC a lot, I don't think this exact bike is very old, I went on plenty of rides she was on or was leading and never saw it, and you never went on a ride she was on without a presentation at some point on whatever new Seven bike she had that day.

I would want to try one before buying not because of anything like the frame and fork but I'd just to try the brakes.

I kind of suspect if I do go back and buy one it would be an Evergreen though. When I was looking at getting a Seven I was very much in the "get another rim brake mode" but at this point 8 years later I'm much more of the mindset of some kind of all-around do everything bike with discs.

As mentioned in my earlier post, if I remember correctly the "Red Sky" line was launched in 2017/2018 (or maybe 2016/2017) and Patria's bike was the first built under that model name but Seven has been making mid-reach brake frames/bikes for a very long time.

My Seven Axiom SL Mid-Reach (pre-cursor to the RedSky) is a fantastic N=1 bike. It does many things well (road, light gravel, wet weather with fenders) and is exactly what I wanted as an urban apartment dweller (low maintenance rim brakes) who rides mostly on the road. It wears Conti 5000 32mm "almost" all of the time.

I think that even if I had more dedicated bikes (MTB, Gravel, Road Race, etc.) I would still have something like this wearing fenders all the time.

As for brakes, I have heard the Grand Cru are very nice but they are too industrial looking for me so I went with the TRP RG-957 which have been great. At some point I might upgrade the pads but the stock ones have been more than fine. They work as well as any 105/Ultegra/Dura-Ace 10/11 speed brake calipers.

I purchased mine from RSC while living in the Boston area for a few years. I tried a Disc Evergreen which was really nice but seemed a bit "slower" than a road bike. I knew we would be moving back to NYC at some point and I would do more road riding so I got the Axiom SL Mid-Reach brake instead of an Evergreen. I was trying to fill a niche need: 1 bedroom apartment dweller (with my wife), low maintenance bike, N=1, mostly road riding, 32mm is perfect (though 35mm fit without fenders if I want).