Geek Warning Bonus Ask a Wrench ep: Wax, grease, and degreasing
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Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It's time for another bonus episode of The Geek Warning podcast, exclusive to our members. This week, Brad Copeland – former world cup pro mechanic and now service director at Hush Money Bikes – joins James and Dave to answer member-submitted questions.
This week, the geeks answer questions related to chain waxing, degreasing, what grease goes where, removing stuck cassettes, tool tips, how we store small parts, how to solve noisy brakes, and plenty more.
While the weekly Geek Warning podcast remains unchanged, we’re now providing these additional bonus episodes each fortnight. These bonus episodes will be a mix of Ask a Wrench, deep-dives, or interviews with the people behind popular products.
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| 0:16.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to another special episode of the Geek Warning Podcast brought to you by the Escape Collective. This week's special episode is another Ask A Ranch edition where our members send us their questions on all things related to tech and maintenance, and our resident |
| 0:24.2 | geeks draw on our 50 plus years of collective professional experience to give you what are, hopefully anyway, useful and |
| 0:31.8 | helpful answers to not only get your bike back up and running but hopefully |
| 0:34.8 | make it better than ever in the process. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm joined today by my fellow tech editor at Escape Collective Dave Rome. |
| 0:40.6 | Hi Dave. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello. And we also have former pro mountain bike race mechanic and now |
| 0:45.3 | service director at Hush Money Bikes in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Brad Copeland. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Brad. Thanks for having me back guys. It's great to have you back. Quick note if you are listening to this right now it means you're not currently an escape collective member so you unfortunately won't be getting the full episode of this or any other special members only Geek |
| 1:04.0 | Worny episodes which will run every other week on top of the usual free to |
| 1:08.0 | everyone show and will include stuff like these super informative |
| 1:10.9 | aspirant episodes, |
| 1:12.6 | deep dives into various tech topics, |
| 1:14.4 | interviews with industry luminaries. |
| 1:16.4 | But hopefully you'll like what you get to hear from us today |
| 1:18.7 | and if you decide you'd like to hear and read more from us, |
| 1:21.6 | you can head over to escape collective |
| 1:23.0 | dot com slash join to get yourself a membership even better we're |
| 1:26.8 | actually running a promo right now where you can get your first month for just |
| 1:29.8 | one dollar and that single dollar will not only get you the full episode of this special |
| 1:33.8 | Geek Warning episode but every episode of Geek Warning along with all of the |
| 1:37.6 | outstanding written content you'll find on escape collective dot com and access to |
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