Geek Warning: Getting our hooks into hookless road

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The time has come for the geeks to share their strong opinions on road tubeless and the movement toward hookless rims. In this episode, and off the back of a high-profile failure, James, Ronan, and Dave dive into the growing concerns related to the many caveats around hookless road rims.

Later in the episode, the conversation changes to fancier ways to hide cables through smaller headsets and the problems this may present. Then there’s a polarising PSA many probably won’t want to hear.

In many ways, this episode is just our geeks ranting about the issues of modern bikes, but hopefully, it proves useful!

Time stamps:

3:15 - Digging into the big topic of road tubeless tyres blowing off hookless rims
36:00 - A little promo of a podcast series not to miss
37:12 - Baum and slotted steerer tubes are on Dave’s mind
43:55 - The only good fix for contaminated brake pads
47:10 - New things from Cadex
48:05 - A new endurance road tyre from Vittoria

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome back to the Geek Warning Podcast from the Escape Collective, your one-stop shop for everything you
0:14.4	need to know this week in the world of bicycle tech.
0:17.3	We've got an especially spicy episode for you today and thankfully we've got our full crew
0:20.8	on hand to tackle it.
0:22.3	I'm James Wong here in Boulder, Colorado.
0:24.1	Over in Sydney, Australia is senior tech editor and resident tool fanatic, Dave Rome.
0:28.4	Hi Dave. Hello, James. And normally I'd say up in Ireland, but Ronan you're actually over in
0:33.8	Gerona Spain at the moment you are our I think we're gonna we're just gonna call you
0:38.5	our chief optimization officer our C. O.O. How does that sound?
0:41.3	The C.O. O, usually refers to someone with a high pay packet, so if that's going to reflect
0:48.5	my pay, I'm happy to go with that, yes.
0:54.0	Perfect, that sounds excellent. How's everybody doing today?
0:56.0	Good.
0:58.0	That was very convincing.
1:00.0	The two of you are two opposite ends of the hair length spectrum right now.
1:06.0	Yeah, Roonin, Roonin gave himself too much of a haircut and I just need one so.
1:15.0	Together we have average length hair. Excellent, excellent.
1:17.0	Dave, for people who do not follow you on Instagram for whatever crazy reason.
1:23.0	Talk to me about high precision Alan Wrenches for small little hex head bolts.
1:28.0	Well I think that's something we covered in a recent podcast, but yeah, it's there's now a post explaining it so yeah it's the
1:36.5	RC remote control cars and Plain World offers some incredibly high highly precise tools and I found myself down that rabbit hole and yeah you can you can listen back to a few episodes ago where we did discuss it.
1:53.2	It was on my mind, but otherwise, yeah, my Instagram page has also got the answers.
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