Geek Warning: Hookless rim designs are coming after your aluminum wheels now, too
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
There has been a slew of wheel introductions recently, with some of the most interesting ones being from Zipp (lightweight carbon XC!), DT Swiss (“Aero for All”!), and Mavic (hookless aluminum gravel!). Wait, what? Yep, Mavic is now so progressive that its new aluminum gravel wheels feature a hookless profile, and we have some thoughts on the idea.
Timestamps:
1:37 – A close at DT Swiss’s new “Aero for All” aluminum wheels
8:27 – This most definitely is not the Mavic of yesteryear
15:04 – Zipp enters the XC wheel market (and their carbon road wheels have quietly gotten heavier)
25:56 – Bontrager cozies up with Look for a new range of clipless MTB pedals
32:57 – Wahoo Fitness continues to streamline its operations
35:58 – Brighter days are hopefully ahead for Parlee Cycles
41:35 – The indomitable and indestructible Surly Cross-Check is no more
46:30 – Dave is obsessing about what spare parts and – of course – tools to carry on his new bike
52:59 – James’s safety rules of the road
57:52 – More power or less weight for eMTBs?
1:02:08 – Choosing the right chain lube is about saving money, not watts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective. I'm James |
| 0:03.4 | Wong here in Boulder, Colorado. Hello everybody welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective I'm James |
| 0:13.8 | Wong here in Boulder Colorado and I'm joined today by Dave Rome in Sydney Australia |
| 0:18.1 | Ronan is off to an event today which you'll hear about soon enough and |
| 0:21.7 | Zach is up to his elbows and tubular glue so he won't be |
| 0:24.3 | with us today either. Dave it's just you and me today. How do you feel about that? |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, yeah I'm stoked. I'm stoked. I'm stoked. I think we can do this, James. We've done this long enough. |
| 0:37.0 | We've done it before and I think this episode is going to be great. |
| 0:41.4 | Hmm, I can feel the excitement just emanating off of my computer screen right now. |
| 0:47.0 | We definitely have plenty to keep you and I busy today. |
| 0:50.0 | In the news we've got some new road and mountain bike wheel to chat about |
| 0:54.2 | Bontrager's getting into the clippus pedal game a little with a little bit more seriousness it seems |
| 0:59.0 | Yet more changes are afoot at Wahoo Fitness. There may finally be some light at the end of the tunnel |
| 1:03.7 | for parley cycles. |
| 1:05.6 | And we'll pour it out for a much-love bike model |
| 1:07.6 | that been around pretty much forever, |
| 1:10.2 | but has now seemingly been discontinued. |
| 1:12.8 | We've also got some thoughts on staying safe while riding on the road |
| 1:15.7 | and how that's apparently affecting bike commuting rates, at least in the US. |
| 1:18.8 | And Dave's been obsessing about spares. |
| 1:21.4 | Hmm, interesting. And finally, we'll wrap up with a little |
| 1:23.9 | PSA they may save you some headache and some money down the road. Wow what a |
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