Geek Warning: More MTB-like gravel bikes, a sharper Microshift, and hookless blow-offs
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Santa Cruz has revamped its popular Stigmata gravel bike with a new MTB-inspired personality, Allied modernizes its Alfa road bike, Microshift’s new Sword gravel groupset looks extremely promising, and you’ll soon be able to track your bike with Apple’s Find My function without an AirTag. And what the heck is up with that hookless tire blow-off video that’s been going around?
The Geeks have questions.
1:50 — Santa Cruz has a new MTB-like Stigmata gravel bike
12:31 — There’s a new Alfa road bike from Allied
22:50 — Microshift’s new Sword gravel groupset looks fantastic
29:57 — Got a 4iiii power meter? Track your bike without an Apple AirTag
34:27 — Hookless road tires generally don’t just blow off the rim
44:47 — Dave is back to his tool-buying ways
45:18 — Tires are stupidly expensive
48:13 — Maybe suspension stems aren’t dorky after all
54:54 — The hot setup for Leadville 100
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective I'm |
| 0:14.8 | James Huang I'm sitting here in the Boulder Group Edel workshop here in Boulder |
| 0:18.3 | Colorado next to Pro Mechanic Zach Edwards. Hi Zach |
| 0:21.2 | Zach. Hello. Also with us today is Escape Collective Tech |
| 0:23.9 | editor and Mega Tool Geek, Dave Rome from Sydney Australia. Hi Dave. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello. Ronin will be off the pod for a few weeks here because he is on paternity leave so |
| 0:34.5 | congratulations Ronan and Rachel who who. |
| 0:38.6 | uh huh uh huh uh huh you're looking a little more live this week than last |
| 0:41.1 | week I'm feeling it yeah yeah, yeah, it's a being |
| 0:44.3 | able to breathe is nice. Huh, it's a nice luxury, huh? You don't really appreciate it. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, yeah. You don't really appreciate it until you can't do it very well. |
| 0:51.6 | Yep. Uh, Zach, I'm kind of curious. I know until you can't do it very well. Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | Zach, I'm kind of curious. |
| 0:55.0 | I know you must get some strange requests from people every now and then. |
| 0:58.0 | What is the weirdest thing to have come into the shop in the last week? |
| 1:01.0 | The weirdest thing? |
| 1:03.4 | I don't even know. |
| 1:04.2 | I mean, I've got an e-bike. |
| 1:05.4 | That's pretty odd for me. |
| 1:07.1 | Well, or maybe that Neshiki up there? |
| 1:09.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | That's definitely not in keeping with the rest of the... |
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