Geek Warning: Snap, crackle, pop, Shimano finally deals with its broken crank problem
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Roughly a decade after problems first started surfacing with its bonded aluminum road crankarms, Shimano has finally issued an official recall for certain Ultegra and Dura-Ace models – and we have some thoughts on the matter. SRAM is also making its long-awaited entry into the e-MTB scene with its new Powertrain system, Specialized wants people to start thinking about e-bike performance a little differently, X marks the spot for Pinarello, and there’s some dodgy stuff going on out there when it comes to ultralight road wheels.
Timestamps:
5:16 – Shimano’s bill has finally come due
22:35 – SRAM is now entered the e-MTB game
27:45 – How much does e-motor efficiency matter?
32:05 – Pinarello’s new endurance road bikes
40:31 – Canyon sure does like its CP0018 three-piece integrated cockpit
46:28 – Ignore those ETRTO rim dimensions at your own peril
51:50 – Introducing Ronan’s new podcast: Performance Process!
55:58 – Dave has gone down the eMTB rabbit hole
1:00:01 – Should MTB rims switch to Schrader valves?
1:04:22 – Ronan’s view on aero gains? Testing, testing, testing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective I'm |
| 0:13.4 | James Huang and I'm joined today in our virtual studio by Dave Rome in |
| 0:16.3 | Sydney Australia. Hi Dave. Hello and we also have Rhoda McLaughlin in Ireland. |
| 0:21.3 | Hi Ronan. |
| 0:22.3 | Hi Ronan. Hi Ron Ireland. Hi, James. |
| 0:23.0 | So the usual crew for I think several weeks in a row now feels weird actually. |
| 0:28.0 | Such consistency can only be a good thing. That a good thing isn't it? It tells us you're not |
| 0:36.2 | away at races right now. No I'm away next week of the race and not on Geek Warning evening, so she'll be here next week also. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, Ronan, speaking of being away, I'm kind of curious, how slow does your four transit feel now? I mean it it feels faster than I |
| 0:59.9 | looked driving a formula one car but it feels slow and slower than I felt and said |
| 1:07.3 | formula one car. How was there a speed limit on that only one car driving experience? |
| 1:13.6 | There wasn't but the, it was like a converted RIF base and the track was designed intentionally |
| 1:19.2 | to sort of keep you in tack or whatever like it. |
| 1:24.0 | I think the max speed you maybe get up to, there's no speed running up, |
| 1:27.0 | but I think it was probably about 80 miles per hour or whatever |
| 1:29.0 | before you go to the next band and, but it was like you were there within a second of coming out of a hairpin. |
| 1:34.8 | Yeah, well, okay. |
| 1:37.2 | Would you recommend it? |
| 1:38.2 | I definitely would yeah. To be honest, all the elements of the day were probably as good or more exciting. |
| 1:49.3 | Like seeing Johnny, of course. |
| 1:53.6 | But there was like a drift session in the morning, there was an F1,000 driving session on a better track |
| 1:58.2 | where you had more freedom just to use the car and had you had the opportunity to use the Formula One car on that track it would have been just unbelievable. |
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