Geek Warning: Recalls, weird brand choices, and more recalls

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Geek Warning has James, Ronan, and Dave covering a broad range of topics from Fulcrum’s new road wheels, a new airless tyre, and a tyre that’s recalled for being unwantedly airless.

There’s also a surprising amount of chat about e-bikes, but perhaps not for the right reasons. There’s the new Moots entering the space, but not with its expected material. Rad Power promises safer batteries, which is great, but also feels late. And yet another recall has us asking whether cheap e-bikes are a responsible product.

Timestamps:

4:45 – Moots takes an Express train in an unexpected direction
16:00 – New mid-range performance road wheels from Fulcrum
21:40 – Another attempt at the airless bicycle tyre?
25:42 – A road tyre recall from Pirelli
28:52 – Rad Power announces safer batteries, bit late?
34:38 – And another recall, this one impacts 45,000 bikes!
46:42 – Ashton Lambie gets out of a stick’y situation
51:50 – High-priced wheels are on Dave’s mind
56:45 – A PSA for Shimano Di2 users

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome back to Geek Warning brought to you by the Escape Collective
0:14.1	I'm James Huang and I'm once again here in our virtual studio with our usual panel of
0:18.4	geeks joining me from Sydney Australia is Escape Collective's Technical Editor, Dave Rome in Sydney, Australia.
0:25.1	Hi Dave.
0:26.1	Howdy.
0:27.1	And we also have our other Tech Editor up in Ireland, Ronan, Ronan.
0:30.0	Hi Ronan.
0:31.0	Blue.
0:32.0	We've got a little bit of a short timeline here for you because apparently you have to go get on a plane
0:36.4	to go do something fun.
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:40.4	Can we tell people what that fun thing is?
0:43.0	I suppose we probably can, no reason why not I guess.
0:47.0	I'm going to, I'm going to meet Johnny Lall.
0:49.0	After I meet Johnny Lall, I'm going to drive in a farm to to one curb but that won't be as fun as meeting Johnny Long.
0:55.8	Perfect.
0:59.8	How are those garage cabinets coming along?
1:02.3	I have five bold noise. How are those garage cabinets coming along?
1:06.0	I have five built now so another three or four to go.
1:07.6	That's pretty good. I found myself some worktops yesterday.
1:09.6	I got eight meters of worked up for 60 pound I think 70 pound.
1:15.0	Wow, 200 pound for 4 meters.
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