Geek Warning Bonus ep: A deep-dive with SRAM on new Red AXS
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Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Much leaked and recently teased, SRAM has now officially unveiled the latest iteration of its Red AXS road groupset. This top-tier offering introduces a new approach to shifter ergonomics and braking, along with a number of other smaller changes.
Shile at the product launch, tech editor Dave Rome sat down with a few key members of SRAM’s road product and engineering team to discuss what’s new, what isn’t, and why. Following the chat about new SRAM things, Dave then sat down with the team from Hammerhead to discuss the equally new Karoo computer.
You can also read our thoughts (and see photos) of these new products over at escapecollective.com.
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| 0:14.9 | Welcome to a special episode of Geek Warning. I'm Dave Rome and I'm currently at the launch for new Schramm Red Axis. Schramm has seemingly emptied the engineering officers of its staff for this event |
| 0:21.1 | and so I figured why not ask the questions I'm going to ask |
| 0:25.6 | for my own Risson Review all while recording it as a podcast. It's worth |
| 0:30.4 | noting that we're recording this many weeks, perhaps months prior to when we're actually allowed to publish this, so I haven't concluded my opinion of the new stuff yet, so for that opinion, I will point you toward my full review on |
| 0:44.9 | escape collective.com rather this podcast will offer an overview of what's new what |
| 0:49.9 | isn't and some hyper specific nerdy things that I'd like answered. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, first off, let's do a roll call of who we have on the pod. |
| 0:59.7 | Jason Fowler, SRAM Road Drive Train Product Manager. |
| 1:04.0 | Pull Cantol category director for Road at SRAM. |
| 1:07.2 | Anthony Medellia, chief engineer for road drive train at SRAM. |
| 1:11.2 | So some overlapping roles there. |
| 1:13.0 | I guess in layman's terms, |
| 1:15.0 | Jason, what do you do day to day? |
| 1:18.0 | As to day to day I focus in on the red group |
| 1:20.0 | and what it needs to be, |
| 1:22.0 | what it needs to be now and in the future so what |
| 1:25.3 | riders are asking for and the development of that that new group set. |
| 1:30.3 | Okay all right and Paul? My role's a little broader maybe. Focus on strategy for our |
| 1:38.8 | drop-bar business, making sure we have resources, we like the direction of our category. |
| 1:43.6 | And how beach racing is growing, right? |
| 1:46.0 | Beach racing is not currently on the agenda. |
| 1:48.4 | Okay, we've been talking a lot about beach racing. |
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