Geek Warning: A new voice
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Geek Warning, a podcast by the Escape Collective, that covers everything to know in the world of bicycle tech. James Huang said farewell in our past episode, and with that, Dave is joined by a new voice that knows a thing or two about bicycle-related things – Brad Copeland.With a mountain bike World Cup race at Nové Město freshly finished, Dave and Brad discuss things in use by the winners, technical problems by a race favourite, and trends in tyre tech.The geeks share their favourite tubeless tyre sealants and a PSA applicable to all.It’s a relatively light week in terms of tech news, still, Brad and Dave share their thoughts on DT Swiss’ new premium gravel wheelsets, new well-priced carbon wheels from Easton, and a new gravel race jersey with its own sweat-patch.
Time stamps:
4:10 – Pre-Olympic tech spotted in use by Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Tom Pidcock
10:55 – Speculating about Victor Koretzky’s tech woes
15:20 – Are wider tyres always better for gravel and MTB? What does that mean for the future of tyre inserts?
37:25 - Pick one: tubeless tyre sealant
50:05 - PSA: test your spares!
57:10 - New DT Swiss GRC 1100 and 1400 Dicut gravel wheels
1:08:00 - Easton’s new EC90 ALX gravel and all-road hoops
1:10:40 - Castelli adds a hydration bladder to an aero jersey, so gravel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Geek Warning, a podcast by Escape Collective that covers everything to know in the world of bicycle |
| 0:15.3 | tech. I'm Dave Rome and well I guess I'm your new host. If you've been on Escape Collective in the past week or |
| 0:22.1 | listen to our previous episode, |
| 0:23.6 | then you'll know that James Wong has said farewell. |
| 0:26.4 | And I can confirm that he's enjoying every minute of his fun employment. |
| 0:32.0 | Still, the show must go on, and we're making a pivot with a new James, who I'll introduce |
| 0:37.2 | in one second. |
| 0:39.2 | Meanwhile, Escape's tech editor, Rona McLaughlin, will join the pod when we have some geeky road and gravel |
| 0:45.5 | race tech to discuss. |
| 0:47.7 | And Ronin's performance process pods will continue as normal, increasingly crossing over |
| 0:51.8 | into the world of tech, covering topics such as bike fit trends race |
| 0:55.6 | geometry and error related things. Okay back to the not so new voice that regular |
| 1:01.5 | listeners may know. Mystery voice. What is the most prized bike in your |
| 1:07.2 | personal collection? It's Servello R5 California. That is not... |
| 1:14.0 | That is not what I had assumed you a dance. |
| 1:18.0 | I thought you'd assume... |
| 1:19.0 | I'd assumed your dance with 26 inch wheels from the 90s. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, we'll have a few of those too. your dance to something with 26 inch wheels from the 90s. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah, I'll have a few of those too. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, it's a toss up. I wasn't prepared for this question. |
| 1:29.3 | So you can be wondering to answer it. |
| 1:31.5 | Okay. |
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