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Geek Warning: Common themed tech rants

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Escape Collective

Pro Cycling, Bicycles, Mountain Bikes, Cycling, Road Bikes, Gravel Bikes, News, Bike Tech, Bikes, Professional Cycling, Sports News, Bicycle Technology, Equipment, Escape Collective, Escape

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Geek Warning. In this episode, Dave and Ronan talk through a bunch of the biggest tech news in the cycling world and cover a few test products at the top of their minds.

It’s hard to find a new racing product today that doesn’t at least tease the “aero” word, however, TuboLight may just be the first to make such a claim for a product that goes inside the tyre.

The recently seen shoe and pedal system from Ekoi caught unwanted attention from the UCI, but them’s the rules. One that is UCI-certified for racing is Ridley’s new X-Night RS cyclocross machine.

SRAM has officially issued a recall related to all aftermarket 12-speed dropbar levers, but the fix is one you can likely do yourself. Another you could probably do yourself is convert an existing Specialized Crux or Roubaix to run SRAM’s 1x Transmission (typically requires a UDH-frame); it’s a new product offered by 5Dev.

The conversation then turns to the weirdly named premium thermal skinsuit that Ronan is testing from Q36.5. And Dave has a little rant related to the new Trek Domane AL just reviewed.

All that, and more, on this week's Geek Warning.

Timestamps:

3:55 - Tubolite gets aero, inside the tyre
11:35 - Ekoi pedals and UCI rulings
21:08 - Ridley’s new X-Night RS, aero(ish) meets cyclocross
28:49 - A DIY recall related to SRAM’s brake lever
33:07 - 5Dev’s adapter to install SRAM Transmission on a Specialized Crux or Roubaix.
36:53 - Ronan is testing a £808 thermal skinsuit from Q36.5
43:05 - What Dave is testing and a rant on entry-level bikes
53:35 - A PSA related to dropbar levers, and another related to crockpots
58:30 - A quick wrap of other news, including Amer Sports, Curve’s carbon Walmer handlebar, and BeSpoked to be held in Manchester.

Transcript

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0:14.0

Hello and welcome to Geek Warning brought to you by the Escape Collective. I'm your host Dave Rome and I'm joined today by Ronan.

0:18.0

Ronan how you doing?

0:20.0

I'm good.

0:21.0

Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Yeah I'm good good good. Good. Yeah. I'm

0:26.1

not sure of telling you or telling myself but I'm good. Yeah okay. I can tell us both

0:30.5

because it's just the two of us and all the listeners. James is, I'm going to throw

0:36.6

him under the bus here. James is in Toronto, Canada, reshooting some factory tours.

0:44.7

Had he had already shot a few, maybe a month ago.

0:49.4

And yeah, he was being diligent, doing his work on the flight home and left his memory card and his

0:58.3

USB hub on the plane without to backup so he had to to go back and yeah photograph the whole tour again.

1:05.6

So, but anyway, there's some cool factory tour coming and I'm sure the photos will be even

1:11.1

better with him having done them in a second time.

1:14.0

Well, let's hope the USB makes at home this time.

1:17.0

Yep, yep.

1:19.0

There's also going to be some special podcast coming from that trip of his so yeah we've got some

1:24.4

bridgeworks bikes and frameworks designs frameworks designs which so yeah two makers in the space there, doing really, really creative things

1:35.9

in their own ways, and so, yeah, I think he's going to have some deep dive podcasts with each of them,

1:40.5

which will be published on our members only Geek Wanting Feed.

1:44.1

So if you're not already Escape Collective Member,

1:46.5

you will get the tease of those episodes,

1:48.8

but you'll only get the whole thing if you remember.

1:52.3

Just like Ronan's performance process. That was where I was

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