Geek Warning Bonus ep: Why experience is still key in the modern bike design world of CFD & CAD
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A €9,000 frame, a €27k build, and €22K spent on developing the bottle alone… Wilier has a new TT bike.
Escape Collective had exclusive access to the development of this new bike in a seemingly impossible time frame. Leading the design project was Marco Genovese, Head of Design at Wilier Triestina. With 14 years of experience in developing over 100 frames, Genovese knows a thing or two about carbon frame design. Escape Tech Editor Ronan Mc Laughlin sat down with Genovese to deep dive on all things frame design to discuss everything from brainwaves in the shower to initial concepts and from modern design tools to made-up UCI rules.
The Supersonica may be a time trial bike, but this bonus episode of the Geek Warning podcast is for anyone who has ever wondered how bikes are designed.
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| 1:00.9 | member to sign up. Welcome back to the Geek Warning Podcast. My name is Ron McLaughlin and well I'm hosting this |
| 1:21.5 | episode because this is not a regular episode, but rather a deep dive special episode into Willier's new |
| 1:29.6 | Supersonica TT bike. And now, before you switch switch off because you're not interested in time |
| 1:34.5 | job bikes I urge you just to listen a little further because this episode might be of |
| 1:39.0 | interest regardless of what type of cycling you enjoy. Almost to their own surprise, |
| 1:43.6 | Boul there has a new time travel bike. The Italian brand already had two time |
| 1:48.1 | travel bike offerings in the turbane and the turbine Nae SLR. |
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