Geek Warning: A car collaboration we like
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What do Aston Martin, Lizard Skins, Cinelli, Chris Froome, and bleed kits all have in common? We’re not entirely sure, but they’re all discussed in this week’s episode of Geek Warning!
Hot on the heels of Lotus’ new bike comes an announcement from Aston Martin – they too have a new superbike. Made with 3D titanium-printed lugs and carbon tubes, this one is built in true collaboration with custom frame maker J Laverack. Aston Martin previously dabbled in bicycles with the help of Storck, but this one is on a whole new level. See more of the new Laverack Aston Martin .1R here.
Iconic Italian brand Cinelli has announced that it’s bringing some frame-building back in-house, for the first time since 1981. It all makes sense once you know Cinelli and Columbus are under the one roof.
Finished the Beckham documentary and have nothing to do? Geek out on this impressively detailed and playful content from Bartosz Ciechanowski. Thanks to reader Frederik Bonde for the tip on this one!
In industry news, Rapha has seen “negative profitability” for a number of years, while it appears Lizard Skins’ parent company may soon come under the house of Fox Factory (the suspension company).
All that and plenty more discussed in this week’s episode.
Timestamps:
0:50 – More high-end car collabs, this time Aston Martin and J Laverack
9:28 – Cinelli brings (some) frame building back to Italy
13:50 – Advanced visualisations for nerds
15:50 – Rapha is in the news
21:10 – Fox Factory set to buy Lizard Skins’ parent
23:25 – Chris Froome’s fit is on Ronan’s mind
28:06 – The one must-have feature of repair stands is on Dave’s mind
33:45 – Pick one cycling computer
39:55 – Our unintended PSA related to hydraulic disc brakes
52:18 – There’s a new member-only bonus version of Geek Warning!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Geek Warning, I'm Dave Rome and yes I'm not the regular host voice James Long has taken a few days off and |
| 0:17.4 | Instead you get myself and you get Ronan. Ronan how you doing? |
| 0:21.3 | Obviously better than the listeners that are stuck with us too, |
| 0:24.0 | but let's see if we can pull this off here. |
| 0:26.6 | Absolutely. |
| 0:27.6 | So yeah, we've got the regular episode for you this week. |
| 0:30.4 | We've got some news from the world of cycling tech. |
| 0:33.0 | We've got some thoughts that have been on our mind and definitely over the heads of our family. |
| 0:38.0 | And yeah, we've got a PSA and we've got the new segment, pick one where we pick a favorite product from a certain segment. |
| 0:46.5 | Yes, things will feel familiar just with a different voice. |
| 0:49.0 | All right. On the news side, |
| 0:51.0 | seems Lotus weren't the only high-end car manufacturer to get into the bike game last week. |
| 0:57.0 | You're going to kind of kick it off the same way as we did last week, aren't we? |
| 1:00.0 | Automotive manufacturers getting into cycling? |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, yeah. I mean mean I expect this to become a regular weekly theme. |
| 1:07.0 | Rotten, have you had a look to this? |
| 1:10.0 | So it's Aston Martin and Jay Laverick, which is a high-end, I guess titanium frame maker out of the UK. |
| 1:16.7 | What do you think? |
| 1:17.7 | Describe this machine to us. |
| 1:20.0 | I think first of all the Laverick and Aston Martin connection there perhaps explained why my |
| 1:27.5 | story on Ed Laverick went so well on the site last week was because perhaps people were thinking there was some connection |
| 1:34.8 | there or perhaps Google thought there was some connection there and started feeding it to people |
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