Geek Warning: A wrap on MADE with Rob English
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Two episodes of Geek Warning in one week? Oh yes!
This second episode has a more familiar format, but there’s still a twist. First, we have James and Dave chatting about what’s new this week and their thoughts from the MADE bike show.
And then, you’ll hear from famed frame builder and Escape Collective contributor Rob English about the show, plus thoughts on the handmade scene.
Timestamps:
2:35 – A brief recap of new gravel and road groups from Shimano
14:57 – Layoffs at Wahoo
17:50 – James and Dave chat Made.
32:18 – Hello Rob English!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm James Huang and once again joined here by Escape Collective senior technical editor Dave Rome. |
| 0:18.4 | Only this time Dave you are not sitting across from me in a hotel room. |
| 0:21.4 | You're back in Sydney, Australia. |
| 0:23.0 | How's your jet lag doing? |
| 0:25.0 | It's not too bad. |
| 0:27.0 | It's not too bad. Actually, for once, managed to sleep slightly on a plane. |
| 0:30.0 | So, yeah, it wasn't a good sleep, but it was something. So, hit the ground running and been busy |
| 0:36.5 | writing many articles since. Do you watch any fun movies? |
| 0:40.4 | Uh, yeah. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, I can't remember what they are though, so they're clearly not so memorable. |
| 0:49.4 | No upgrade to first class? |
| 0:51.4 | Sadly not, but almost the next best thing. |
| 0:53.7 | I had my own row. |
| 0:55.3 | Oh, oh, that's pretty good. |
| 0:57.8 | Not bad at all. |
| 0:58.8 | So you got to maybe that's why you were sleeping. |
| 1:00.5 | Yes, exactly. |
| 1:01.5 | That's exactly why I I see. Well, we have an awesome show for you. As always, we've got a few things to talk about. It's been a little quiet on the tech news frontier. However, we do have some pretty big news. |
| 1:13.5 | Shimano has just announced new versions of mechanical GRX gravel and 105 road mechanical 12 |
| 1:19.7 | speed group sets. |
| 1:21.3 | We've got some, well, unfortunately, some more layoffs to announce at Wahoo. I'm not really sure what's going on there, |
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