Geek Warning: Is new Shimano GRX enough?
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It’s just a regular week in May, but you can bet the bike industry is its usual buzz of activity. James Huang and Dave Rome offer some strong thoughts related to Shimano’s latest release of GRX Di2. There’s chat about Felt clawing its way back into the spotlight. Of course the geeks can't ignore the return of Kona Bikes. And there are rumblings that the old Interbike tradeshow may be coming back, too.
We’ve got custom bikes on our minds. We fail at picking one saddle. And there’s a PSA for all. The episode wraps with a round-up of new wheel-related things from Reynolds, Zipp, Roval, Chris King, and Hunt.
And then James shares his own news. Indeed this is the last episode you’ll hear James’ voice as he hangs up his digital gauge.
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Time stamps:
2:00 - Shimano GRX 12-speed Di2
16:40 - Felt’s new VR endurance road bike
20:25 - Kona is back!
25:45 - Is the Interbike tradeshow coming back?
30:40 - On our mind: would we buy our own fully custom bike?
43:25 - Pick one: saddles
56:45 - You get accustomed to things being crummy
1:01:10 - Talking new wheel-related things from Reynolds, Zipp, Hunt, Roval, and Chris King
1:11:30 - James’ heart sinking news (tear emoji)
Transcript
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| 0:29.3 | Support what we do. Hello everyone welcome back to another episode of the Geek Warning |
| 0:44.9 | Podcast brought to you by the Escape Collective you're a one-stop shop for |
| 0:48.8 | everything you want to know about this week in the world of bicycle tech. |
| 0:52.8 | And kind of what a week it's been. |
| 0:54.6 | So Shimano just announced its new GRX D.I. 2 wired, |
| 0:58.3 | the wireless electronic gravel group set. |
| 1:01.2 | Felts is back on the scene with a new VR endurance road bike. |
| 1:04.7 | And after a very, very brief period of uncertainty, Kona's back in action. |
| 1:09.3 | Not only that, but another old brand name that you probably have heard of maybe making a return as well. We'll get to that in a minute. |
| 1:16.0 | We're also going to talk about different motivations for and against custom bikes. We're going to chat about our favorite saddles in this week's pick one segment. |
| 1:22.0 | And we've got a |
| 1:23.4 | PSA on why you probably want to set some time aside to visit your local |
| 1:26.8 | mechanic. I'm James Swalling and my partner in crime today is Escape Collective |
| 1:30.7 | senior tech editor Dave Rome. |
| 1:33.1 | Dave, I am curious, are you starting to wonder |
| 1:36.5 | if either you and I have worked together for so long |
| 1:39.8 | that I'm pretty much able to read your mind |
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