Geek Warning: Rear Radars need to work 100% of the time
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this jam-packed episode, James and Dave discuss a handful of new gravel and road bikes that caught their attention during the week. Trek enters the rear Radar game to compete with Garmin, yet James’ early impressions of the CarBack raises more questions than answers.
DT Swiss has just released a new mountain bike rear hub with a wholly new ratchet system, you can read about the new 240 DEG hub at escapecollective.com, and a bonus episode of Geek Warning with DT Swiss is also available, too. Meanwhile the coverage of new products from EVT, Fox, RockShox, and more continues at the end of the episode.
On our mind and over the heads of the geek's families is the topic of gravel suspension. The geeks discuss who it’s for (and who it’s not), and why it’s proving to be more than a gimmick.
Plus there’s a PSA, which is likely a repeat on something previously discussed, but that only makes it more important.
Time stamps:
3:00 - Kona’s new gravel bike for mountain bikers
6:30 - FiftyOne’s new Sika road bike
11:55 - Parlee’s new and unexpectedly-European-made Ouray road bike
15:40 - Trek enters the rear radar game with its CarBack
23:15 - DT Swiss’ 240 Ratchet DEG hub
26:30 - Chatting all things gravel suspension (including Cane Creek’s Inverted answer to the space)
43:25 - PSA: Your dropper needs love
47:50 - Classified adds Enve to its partners list
49:25 - New RockShox things
50:40 - Fox overhauls its Transfer dropper
53:00 - EVT enters the portable repair stand game
55:10 - OnGaurd’s new RockSolid angle-grinder-resistant lock
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to another episode of the Geek Warning Podcast from the Escape Collective, |
| 0:14.3 | your one-stop shop for everything you need to know this week in the world of bicycle tech. |
| 0:18.0 | See how our classic trade show kicks off this week and I'll have a whole bunch of tech galleries on the site |
| 0:22.0 | covering all the |
| 0:22.8 | latest and greatest gear that's on display there even though that event hasn't |
| 0:27.3 | get started as we're recording this episode though there's already a whole |
| 0:29.6 | bunch of stuff to talk about today so on today's docket we've got a brand new gravel |
| 0:33.6 | bike from Kona and following up on last week's show. We've got yet more high-end |
| 0:37.4 | all-roads slash endurance road bikes, this time from the custom Wizards at |
| 0:41.4 | 51 over in Ireland and the second coming of Parley |
| 0:44.7 | cycles pretty interesting there. Truck also has a new rear facing radar |
| 0:48.9 | unit designed to go head to head against the Garment Varia. |
| 0:51.1 | D.C. Swiss is upping its engagement speed game again with a revamp of its iconic Star |
| 0:57.0 | Ratchet hubs. |
| 0:58.0 | And then we're also going to debate the pros and cons of paint on bikes that don't really need |
| 1:01.9 | it. We've got a PSA related to those sadly neglected |
| 1:04.4 | dropper posts. I'm a bunch of other little bits of news to round out the show. I'm James |
| 1:08.6 | Huang. I'm actually not in Boulder, Colorado this week. I'm in Monterey, California |
| 1:12.2 | for Seattle. Joining me on today's show |
| 1:14.7 | is Escape Collector, senior tech editor Dave Rome, who's also not in Sydney. Dave, where are you? |
| 1:20.0 | Somewhere in Perth at the moment. just a brief stop to celebrate someone turning 95. |
| 1:26.0 | It's been a wild week, wild, wild week. |
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