Geek Warning: Our favorite road helmets, mega-pricey chain lubes, and cheap Pinarellos
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Good chain lubes can extend the life of your drivetrain, and bad ones can shorten them – but do you know how much that might actually cost you? A new online calculator using Zero Friction Cycling’s data aims to tell you just that. Our crew of geeks also pick their favorite road helmets, Ronan has some thoughts on stock component sizes, the UCI is at it again, 3T and Bianchi have some fancy new gravel bikes, and if come across some new Pinarellos that seem way, way too cheap, there might be a reason for that.
Timestamps:
6:03 – The UCI has updated their penalties, but it’s probably not going to change anything
10:07 – That cheap bottle of chain lube might actually cost you $5,000.
17:20 – More bad news from the bike industry
18:19 – Pinarello needs a better fence – and maybe a stronger door
20:25 – Stock component sizes, chickens, and eggs
32:54 – Our favorite road helmets
47:50 – Bianchi’s new Impulso RC gravel bike actually looks really good
48:21 – 3T is going really, really big with its new Extrema Italia gravel bike
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to another episode of the Geek Warning podcast brought to you |
| 0:13.9 | by the Escape Collective I'm James Wong we've got on the show with us today our full crew of |
| 0:19.0 | tech editors including Dave Rome in Australia hi Dave and. Hello. And we also have Ronin, Ronin McLaughlin in Ireland. |
| 0:25.5 | I Ronin. |
| 0:26.3 | It's easy for you to say. |
| 0:27.6 | It is. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm apparently a little tongue tied today. |
| 0:29.9 | In case you are not familiar with the show, Geek Warnings are weekly podcast covering the full |
| 0:34.8 | gamut of cycling tech, including the latest tech news happenings this week. |
| 0:38.4 | What we've been testing, discussions on various gear topics and handy maintenance and upgrade |
| 0:42.4 | advice to keep your bike up and running. |
| 0:44.8 | We also have available exclusively for Escape Collective Members additional bonus episodes that |
| 0:49.1 | run every other week with even more in-depth coverage and special guests that you definitely don't want to miss. |
| 0:53.9 | So if you want access to those episodes you can head over to escape collective.com slash join. |
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| 1:01.9 | Enter that when you check out and then you'll get your first month for just a dollar or one pound or one euro. |
| 1:07.0 | On today's show we've got some news to share about a couple of new bikes from Bianchi and 3T an interesting online calculator |
| 1:13.2 | help you figure out your chain lube. We've also got some changes to the UCI's |
| 1:16.4 | technical regulations for the upcoming season that might have some impact. We're |
| 1:20.2 | also going to discuss the pros and cons of stock component sizes. |
| 1:22.8 | We'll reveal our personal favorite road helmets and we'll chat a little bit about stuff we've |
| 1:26.8 | currently got in the middle of testing. But first, how's everyone doing today? |
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