Geek Warning: A deep dive on new Shimano GRX and 105 12-speed mechanical
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Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a special episode, brought to you by the geeks of Escape Collective. In this deep dive, tech editor Dave Rome interviews Nick Legan and Dave Lawrence from Shimano about all that’s new (and not) in the latest GRX 12-speed mechanical groupset.
At some point in the chat it’s mentioned that new 105 12-speed mechanical is also inbound, and so the conversation covers that, too.
Tune in to hear about all that’s new, how HG+ works, an explainer on freehub compatibility, cable durability concerns, and a few bad (excellent) puns.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome to Geek Warning, a special bonus episode. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm here with two people instrumental |
| 0:14.6 | in the creation of Shimano's gravel focus range. |
| 0:18.8 | That debuted a few years back. |
| 0:21.1 | GRX. |
| 0:22.4 | And now, there are new things to talk about GRX. And now there are new things to talk about GRX. Well, to get to know the people that |
| 0:28.1 | are going to be on this podcast, I'll get you both to introduce yourselves and what you do at Shimano. I'm Dave Lawrence. I'm the Road and |
| 0:35.5 | gravel product manager for North America. And I'm Nick Legan, the Road and Gravel brand manager for North America. Thank you. And Nick, can you confirm how much Shimano is paying for this episode? |
| 0:48.0 | Close to zero dollars. Close to, okay. I mean we did give you a t-shirt and a bandana. That's true. I did I did make a comment. We're in Bend |
| 0:57.8 | Oregon. I did make a comment that my goal for being in Bend Oregon was to leave here |
| 1:02.0 | without a beer- themed t-shirt. |
| 1:04.6 | And we fixed that. |
| 1:05.6 | And so Nick made that impossible for me. |
| 1:08.2 | It's very comfortable, so thank you. |
| 1:10.3 | You're welcome. Yeah, to be clear, this isn't sponsored content. |
| 1:14.0 | I thought there's a lot of interesting things to talk about and some people don't like to read |
| 1:19.0 | the length that I go into on some of these things and some people like to hear about them so |
| 1:23.4 | let's record a podcast and dive into what's new and perhaps what isn't and |
| 1:29.1 | what hasn't been talking talked about so far? So yeah, well if you like pictures and you like words |
| 1:38.0 | Check out escape collective.com. There will be a full write-up on this. But yeah, if you just want the podcast, |
| 1:44.8 | you're at the right place. |
| 1:46.5 | All right, let's start with the basics. |
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