Geek Warning: No angled levers for you!
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Following a break for our inaugural Awards episode, Dave and Ronan return with an episode of a familiar format. There’s plenty on the minds of the geeks, plus a sprinkling of new tech to know in this final Geek Warning episode for 2023 ...
The biggest news is that the UCI wants to control just how weird racers can get with the angles of brake hoods. Dave and Ronan discuss the claimed safety concerns, and what are arguably the far larger concerns, too. For a detailed report, check out our coverage of the latest tech rulings.
The geeks discuss whether the term “endurance” may be holding people back from buying the best bike for them. Ronan dreams of adjustable crank length being more mainstream. Then, the conversation turns to road tyres for the Pick One segment.
In other news, it looks like a new SPD-compatible powermeter pedal is on the way from Favero, although for now the Assioma Pro MX is only available in Italy. Tacx recently released a new flagship trainer, the Neo 3M, a now motion-based trainer comparable to the Wahoo KickR Move – a comparison that DCRainmaker has already made. Meanwhile, Classified now has an app for its Powershift hub, although its limited usefulness may be a better tease of what’s possibly to come.
In mountain bike news, Niner is being moved out of Colorado and to the not-so-cycling-destination of Ohio. We're also seeing further examples of integrated cable routing on mountain bikes, with the Bike Ahead Composites Wonderbar being an example.
Timestamps:
2:05 – Biggest tech trend
7:59 – Biggest surprise
12:13 – The “It’s about time” award
16:42 – The “most wanted” award
20:00 – Our favorite bike-related purchases of the year
25:46 – The “What the hell were they thinking?” award
32:10 – The “problem solver” award
36:20 – The “more of this, please, bike industry” award
38:49 – The “meh” award
43:36 – The “I am so here for this” award
45:59 – The “Oops, I put my foot in my mouth” award
48:04 – The most exciting new tool of the year
53:57 – What products are we anticipating most in 2024?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Geek Warning Podcast. I'm Dave Rome and this week is just two of us. I'm joined by |
| 0:17.0 | Rona McLaughlin in Ireland. Hey Rennan. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey Roneen. |
| 0:20.0 | A regular episode now and yeah if you haven't already caught it we did our annual |
| 0:26.3 | awards episode first time for the Geek Wanting podcast and I think it was a bit of fun |
| 0:31.7 | so check it out, hear what we loved, what we hated, what we found weird, what we found useless, |
| 0:37.6 | and what caused a flurry of anger emails. |
| 0:41.6 | Wasn't useless, it was meh. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh yeah, meh was the award, wasn't it? |
| 0:46.0 | All right, well, before we jump in, I just wanted to remind everyone that Escape Collective exists |
| 0:51.4 | for its members and by its members. |
| 0:53.4 | And yeah, if you haven't already joined the growing group of members that are engaged in |
| 1:00.0 | our discord and have access to all of our content and support everything we do, then please consider |
| 1:05.4 | joining. So at the moment we have a sale that runs over the Christmas break that will |
| 1:10.9 | get you a free t-shirt if you become a member of Escape Collective. |
| 1:15.0 | So that's if you buy an annual membership. |
| 1:17.7 | If you're a ready member, maybe consider buying a membership for a friend and then cheekily |
| 1:22.0 | keeping the t-shirt for yourself. |
| 1:23.7 | So yeah that's escape collective.com forward slash Christmas and that'll get you to |
| 1:29.4 | that special sale. Thank you for your support. |
| 1:33.0 | Ronan, should we start with the biggest news of the week, which is UCI has done some |
| 1:40.3 | UCI things? What's going on here? |
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